The fear of khap looms large over Haryana with 40 members of the Dalit (Valmiki) community at Mirchpur village in Hisar district — where two people were burnt alive by Jats last week — fleeing their homes, rattled by khap support of Jat violence against them. Their fears were compounded on Sunday when, in a khap meeting in Jind, 300 khap representatives called for intensifying the agitation against the Hindu...

Violent clashes have erupted between people in the Muslim community and tribespeople in the Birbhum district of India's West Bengal state, police say. Officials say at least 50 houses in three tribal villages were set on fire after a businessman from the Muslim community was Murdered. Tribal villagers retaliated with arrows and set fire to houses in Muslim areas. Tribespeople are trying to stop illegal stone quarries opening - the...

A week after the suicide of a BMC engineer, his family alleges he was Murdered for being a whistle blower. They refuse to cremate his body unless a CBI probe is ordered. On March 27, the convicts were sentenced by a Patna court for Murdering Satyendra Dubey, an engineer who had exposed corruption in the National Highway Authority of India. On the very same day, in Mumbai, a 28-year-old engineer,...

What is a whistleblower protection law? A whistleblower is defined as someone who exposes wrongdoing, fraud, corruption or mismanagement. In many cases, this could be a person who works for the government who would report misconduct within the government or it could be an employee of a private company who reports corrupt practices within the company. The law that a government enacts to protect such persons who help expose corruption...

In what is being hailed as the “first ever honour killing conviction” in Haryana, the Karnal Sessions Court on March 25 held six residents of Karora village guilty of a gruesome double Murder. The sentencing will take place tomorrow. In April 2007, Manoj, 24, and Babli, 18, had drawn the ire of Karora’s khap panchayat for eloping to Chandigarh and getting married. They belonged to the same gotra, Berwal, and...