-The Hindu Admits lawyer’s letter seeking court-monitored probe as PIL petition Amid mounting pressure on the Uttar Pradesh police to solve the Unnao gang-Rape case and custodial death of the minor victim’s father, the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday took suo motu cognisance of the matter. Acting on a request by senior advocate Gopal S. Chaturvedi for a court-monitored probe, the HC admitted his letter as a Public Interest Litigation plea. The matter...
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What Supreme Court's dilution of SC/ST Act means for Dalit women -Ragini Bhuyan
-Livemint.com Crimes against Dalit women constitute the biggest category of crimes against Dalits registered under the SC/ST Act Mumbai: A dilution of the stringent provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 is going to affect Dalit women far more than men. Nearly a fifth of cases registered under the Atrocities Act are crimes against women. If one excludes the category “others” (which includes various miscellaneous crimes), crimes...
More »Rape, murder, kidnapping cases rise in Delhi in first quarter of year
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The capital, it appears, has become less safe than it was last year. More Rape and murder cases have been reported in the first three months of 2018 than in the same period in 2017. One hundred and thirty murders have been committed till March 31 this year against 127 last year and Rape has gone up from 467 cases to 487 in the corresponding...
More »The Last 7 Days Alone Portray the Status of Dalits in India -Faizan Mustafa
-TheCitizen.in Forget about 66 per cent increase in crimes against Dalits in last ten years or Rapes of Dalit women doubled or a crime being committed against Dalits every 15 minutes. Let us just see what happened in the last one week: - A Dalit boy was killed on Friday for buying and riding a horse in Gujrat demonstrating our hatred and prejudices against Dalits. - A Dalit couple from Kasganj,U.P. has been...
More »It is Now Official, BJP Ruled States Outdo Others in Crime against Dalits -SR Darapuri
-TheCitizen.in Number of crimes against Dalits have gone up substantially It has again come up prominently in the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) “Crime in India-2016” Report that BJP ruled States outdo other states in atrocities against Dalits (Scheduled Castes). As in 2015. At present the BJP rules Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Goa and Jharkhand where Dalit atrocities cases are more than the non-BJP ruled states. In other states ruled...
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