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Gujarat 2002 and Modi’s Misdeeds by Anand Teltumbde

Ten years after the killings in Gujarat, Narendra Modi has neither expressed regret nor has he been held accountable for those mass deaths. Where do we go from here? Anand Teltumbde (tanandraj@gmail.com) is a writer and civil rights activist with the Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights, Mumbai.   Just thinking of it, a shiver runs down my spine. I had my own brush with how the Hindutva gangs carried out the...

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RTI activist asked to pay Rs 1.29 lakh for information-Kiran Sonawane

Right to Information (RTI) activist Sanjay Bhaklika has alleged that the Adharwadi prison authorities demanded Rs 1.29 lakh from him for 12,500 pages of information on the jail. Bhaklika, 40, a resident of Sai Chowk, Kadakpada in Kalyan, said, “I was in jail for 43 days on a false forgery case. During my time inside the prison, I saw many irregularities. So, after getting released on bail, I decided to expose...

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To work & back to Tihar every day by Imran Ahmed Siddiqui

Behave well, step out of jail. Select Inmates of Tihar jail can now work outside the high-security walls of Asia’s biggest prison, provided, of course, they have not violated jail manuals and their conduct has been good. The Inmates will have to come back to their cells at night. The move to allow well-behaved prisoners to work outside the jail complex follows a recent nod from the Delhi government to a rehabilitation plan...

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NHRC orders U.P. to provide relief to maltreated prisoners by J Balaji

Taking a serious view of an incident last year in which three Inmates at a district jail in Bhadoi, Uttar Pradesh, were hung by the legs and beaten up severely, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the State government to provide relief of Rs.25,000 to each of Suresh alias Suraj, Rajkumar alias Chhotu and Raj Bahadur Yadav and the commission asked the State Chief Secretary to send the...

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Pakistani flag hoisting was a Hindutva plot to foment strife, police say by Pradeepkumar Kadkol

With the arrest of another Hindutva activist on Tuesday in connection with the hoisting of a Pakistani flag in front of the Tahsildar office at Sindagi in Karnataka on January 1, the number of persons held by the police for what they believe was a plot to foment communal strife has increased to seven. The arrested are members of Sri Ram Sene, a pro-Hindutva outfit. According to the police, they allegedly...

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