-The Hindustan Times Far from the neatly trimmed lawns of India Gate that so often reverberate with cries for justice, far also from the corridors of power where ministries recently squabbled over the right age for consensual sex, lie 197 districts - yes 197, read the figure again - where children are regularly abused. In these districts -- all ridden by conflict -- words like illegal detention, arbitrary arrests, sexual violence, torture...

-The Hindu     Jagdalpur Jail Superintendent says that a psychiatrist asked her questions about "anger" The Chhattisgarh government has initiated an enquiry into the mental health of Adivasi teacher Soni Sori lodged in the Jagdalpur jail to ascertain whether she should be sent to the mental asylum in Agra, according to women's rights groups. A legal team visiting Ms. Sori on March 15 after she failed to appear for a hearing the previous day,...

-The Times of India The CPI (Maoist) has formed its own elite training 'institute' in the Dandakaranya forests, a naxalite bastion, to transform tribal cadres into Communist professionals equipped to handle tasks related to the Central Committee, the outfit's apex decision-making body. The Buniyadi Communist Training School (BCTS), a brainchild of CPI (Maoist) top gun Ganapathy, has been churning out professionally-trained Communists since 2009 with basic military skills and knowledge of Hindi,...

-The Hindu   The absence of a comprehensive rehabilitation policy for surrendered militants has made life hellish for those who decided to give themselves up and join the mainstream Jammu & Kashmir's first "Surrender Policy" was floated by Governor Gen. (retd.) K.V. Krishna Rao's administration in 1995. It was almost identical to the policies introduced for militants involved in the North East and naxalite insurgencies: Rs.1.5 lakh worth of fixed deposit receipts payable...

-The Hindu Mumbai: Two activists of the Kabir Kala Manch (KKM) - Sheetal Sathe and Sachin Mali - who staged a ‘satyagraha' outside the Maharashtra Assembly on Tuesday were sent to custody by a Mazagaon court on Wednesday following their arrest by the Mumbai police. Mali was sent to police custody till April 10 and Sathe to judicial custody till April 17, their counsel Mihir Desai said. Both the activists, accompanied by political...