A meeting will be held here on April 13 to further discuss the recent murder of MGNREGA whistle blower Niyamat Ansari by Maoists in Latehar district to be attended by human rights activists and civil society members. The long-standing debate on Ansari's character and the role played by him has drawn attention of human rights activists from all over the country. The MGNREGA activist was killed at a time when he...
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Court asks Food Commissioners to visit Chhattisgarh villages by J Venkatesan
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed its two Commissioners N.C. Saxena and Harsh Mander and the Collector of Dantewada to visit the villages of Tadmetla, Morapalli and Timapuram in Chhattisgarh, where food scarcity and hunger deaths were reported, and to give a report to the court. A Bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice Deepak Verma gave this direction during the course of hearing of a petition filed by the People's...
More »Counting of poor under SC scanner by Chetan Chauhan
The way number of poor in India is measured is under a legal scrutiny. The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the government in Right To Food case the efficacy of the below poverty line survey, to be held in June this year, if all the poor identified fail to get government benefit. The court asked the government to give reasons for the Planning Commission putting up a cap on the...
More »Justice for Niyamat Ansari
We condemn in the strongest possible terms the recent murder of NREGA activist Niyamat Ansari in Kope Gram Panchayat (Latehar District, Jharkhand), as well as a similar attempt — the same day — on the life of his associate Bhukhan Singh. Briefly, this murder was the culmination of a series of acts of harassment, including at least one earlier attempt on Bhukhan and Niyamat's lives. Bhukhan and Niyamat fearlessly continued to...
More »Ansari killing: Judicial probe and compensation demanded by Jaideep Deogharia
A fact-finding team comprising Rights activists and United Milli Forum (UMF) has demanded a judicial inquiry into the killing of MGNREGA whistle blower Niyamat Ansari and sought immediate compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the next of kin of the victim. Ansari was the sole bread-earner of his family comprising elderly mother, father, wife and three children, a divorced sister along with her daughter and an elder brother all dependent on...
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