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Kachchh camels’ custody: ships of the deserted -Jaideep Hardikar

-RuralIndiaOnline.org Maharashtra police detained five traditional herders from Kachchh on January 7 suspecting these semi-nomadic pastoralists were smuggling camels to slaughterhouses in Hyderabad. Also detained: 58 camels “We have not confiscated these 58 camels,” asserts Inspector Ajay Akare, in charge of the Talegaon Dashasar police station in Amravati district. “We don’t have the powers to do so since Maharashtra has no specific law against cruelty to these animals.” “The camels,” he says, “are...

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106 deaths in Delhi in January due to cold, claims NGO; Officials deny

-PTI/ The Hindu Delhi reported one of the longest cold spells this January At least 106 people, mostly homeless persons, have died in Delhi this month due to cold conditions, non-government organisation Centre for Holistic Development (CHD) has claimed and written to ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwal requesting him to make proper arrangements for such people during winters. While officials from the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) denied that deaths have occurred due to...

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Sulli Deals, Bulli Bai and the young and educated hatemongers -Alok Deshpande and Hemani Bhandari

-The Hindu Two apps — Sulli Deals and Bulli Bai — created by young engineering students sought to silence Muslim women by putting a price on their dignity. Hemani Bhandari and Alok Deshpande report on the investigation that led to the arrest of the brains behind these apps It was around 10:30 p.m. on January 5. The Bishnoi family had already turned in when a Delhi police team arrived at their house...

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An offended State -Sevanti Ninan

-The Telegraph The police as the arbiters of communication For a country with serious challenges to tackle, the amount of time and energy of government agencies and courts that is now spent on offence-taking and conspiracy-chasing borders on the ludicrous. Through 2021, the police in various parts of the country sought to criminalize news gathering as well as social media expressions, registering first information reports indiscriminately under various sections of the Criminal...

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SC notice to Centre on genocide advocates -R Balaji

-The Telegraph  'The petitioners can approach local authorities' The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Centre, Delhi police and the Uttarakhand government on their alleged failure to act against people who had purportedly called for genocide against Muslims at events in Haridwar and Delhi last month. “Heard Mr Kapil Sibal, learned senior counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners. Issue notice to the respondents. List the matter after 10 days,” a...

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