-IANS Delhi Police on Tuesday gave clean chit to eight people booked in constable Subhash Tomar's death during the anti-rape protests here in December last year. Appearing for the police, additional solicitor general (ASG) Sidharth Luthra told the court that no evidence was found to link the eight accused to the constable's death. However, Luthra said that they were involved in destruction of public property near India Gate during the protests against the...
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Ram Singh mocked us all: Delhi gangrape victim's friend-Pritha Chatterjee
-The Indian Express Reacting to the death of the main accused in the gangrape case, the friend of the 23-year-old victim, and the only Witness to the brutal assault on the night of December 16, said the "system had failed (him) once again". The friend told Newsline that Ram Singh killed himself "mocking the system, and the administration". "He chose his own death as he pleased in Tihar Jail, which boasts of its...
More »Govt’s goof-up derails Election Commission exercise -Bharti Jain
-The Times of India The tearing hurry which led the government to issue an ordinance in January, empowering the Election Commission to reserve or de-reserve constituencies meant for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes without waiting for delimitation, may not have been justified. For, the demographic data in this regard is still being tabulated by the census authorities, leaving EC no scope to even start the "limited delimitation exercise". According to census sources,...
More »Save Yamuna brigade camps at Faridabad
-The Hindustan Times Traffic on Mathura Road remained affected for almost four hours as thousands of activists of Yamuna Bachav Yatra marched towards the Capital on Sunday. The march stopped just a kilometre ahead of the Delhi border. They are likely to enter Delhi on Monday. “Delhi Police told us to stay in Faridabad for one more night as the government does not want this huge yatra to enter Delhi,” said Sunil...
More »In Chhattisgarh, tribal women retract rape charges -Suvojit Bagchi
-The Hindu Dantewada (Chhattisgarh): Of the six tribal women of Shamsetti village in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh who in 2009 gave statements in court that they had been gang-raped by Salwa Judum functionaries, three have now withdrawn their charges. Three key Witnesses — family members of the women — have also retracted their statements. Some lawyers in Dantewada familiar with the case say that the women are withdrawing due to “severe pressure”...
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