-NDTV.com Rajasthan Triple Suicide: One of the children was a 4-year-old boy and the other was a 27-day old infant. Two of the women were pregnant. Jaipur: A tragic suicide case shocked Rajasthan as three sisters, all married into the same family, died by suicide along with two children. One of the children was a 4-year-old boy and the other was a 27-day old infant. Worse, two of the women were pregnant...
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Allahabad HC Rejects Bail Pleas of 34 Former PAC Constables in 1991 Fake Encounter Case
-PTI/ TheWire.in According to the prosecution case, on July 12, 1991, UP Police pulled 10-11 Sikh pilgrims out of a bus, shot them and later called them 'terrorists' to cover up the incident. Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court has rejected the bail pleas of 34 former constables of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) accused of killing 10 Sikh men in an alleged fake encounter in 1991. “The gruesome murder of...
More »Police Reform via New Legislation Should Not Dilute State Role -Ajay K Mehra
-TheWire.in As the police reform discourse has begun again, let us recall some of the glaring incidents that have crossed the limits of the rule of Law. Police has been in the news recently, mostly for the wrong reasons. Let us recall some of the glaring incidents that have crossed the limits of the rule of Law to contextualise the discussion on police reforms in India. The Justice V.S. Sripurkar Commission set up...
More »SC Orders Police Against Abuse of Sex Workers, Media from Publishing Their Pictures
-TheWire.in The apex court issued these directions in exercise of power under Article 142 of the constitution since the Union government is yet to come up with legislation on this matter. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed that the police should treat sex workers with dignity and should not abuse them, acknowledging that the basic protection of human decency and dignity extends to them. It further directed that the media should...
More »Supreme Court recognises sex work as a ‘profession’ -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu The apex court says police should neither interfere nor take criminal action against adult and consenting sex workers In a significant order recognising sex work as a “profession” whose practitioners are entitled to dignity and equal protection under Law, the Supreme Court has directed that police should neither interfere nor take criminal action against adult and consenting sex workers. “It need not be gainsaid that notwithstanding the profession, every individual in...
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