-The Indian Express Rajkot: Police inspector injured in violence triggered by a road accident, security beefed up in the area. A month after three dalits were killed in police firing at Thangadh in Surendranagar district, a dalit youth was injured when police on Thursday opened fire to control a mob that went on the rampage in Sardar Chowk area of Junagadh city following an accident between a car and a Gujarat State...
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Terror suspect ends life, family blames ‘harassment’ by police -Sreenivas Janyala
-The Indian Express Hyderabad: Abdul Razak alias Mansoor, who police say was a Lashkar-e-Toiba member, committed suicide last Wednesday. His family intends to approach the Andhra Pradesh Human Rights Commission, saying harassment by police drove Razak to kill himself. Razak was an accused in the November 2002 blast at Sai Baba temple in Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad that killed two persons and injured three. He was also named in the FIRs filed in...
More »In Bangladesh at the time of ‘crime’, yet held in Tihar for years -Pritha Chatterjee
-The Indian Express The Bangladesh High Commission has complained to the Indian government that two Bangladeshi citizens have been implicated in crimes committed in Delhi when they weren’t even in India. The two Bangladeshis, aged 22 and 60, have been held as undertrials in Tihar jail for nearly four and three years respectively. According to documents presented in two Delhi courts, both men arrived in India several months after their alleged crimes...
More »Tharu Tribals Facing Threat of Displacement -Kundan Kumar
-Outlook Tharu tribals residing in 300 forested villages surrounding the Valmiki Nagar Tiger reserve in Bihar's West Champaran district are likely to be displaced if a proposal to increase the area of the tiger reserve is implemented. The tiger reserve area is proposed to be increased from 335 square kms at present to 599 square kms to create a core and buffer zones, an official of the sanctuary said. CPI(M-L) Liberation leader Kumar...
More »Arrested, accused, acquitted-Sumegha Gulati
-The Indian Express A group of teachers at Jamia Milia Islamia University has put together a compilation of terror cases that failed to hold up in court, all of these built by the Delhi Police Special Cell around Youths they had arrested and described as terrorists. Titled “Framed, Damned and Acquitted: Dossiers of a Very Special Cell” and compiled from court judgments and media reports, the study by the Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity...
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