-The Indian Express Overall, 2016 saw a far higher number of people (35) dying during lathicharges across the country than in 2015 (7). However, the NCRB data also shows that a large number of policemen were injured during these incidents of lathicharge. Almost twice as many people died of injuries inflicted by non-lethal weapons used by police and paramilitary forces in J&K in 2016 than by bullets, according to the latest...
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Kashmiri Used as Human Shield by Army Awarded Rs 10 Lakh Compensation for Torture -Mudasir Ahmad
-TheWire.in The State Human Rights Commission stopped short of announcing action against the army, as it lacked jurisdiction. Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir’s State Human Rights Commission on Monday directed the government to pay Rs 10 lakh as compensation to Farooq Ahmad Dar, the man who was strapped to an army jeep and paraded around villages as a human shield in Kashmir’s Budgam district on April 9. In a five-page order, commission chairperson Justice...
More »Love kills six times more Indians than terror attacks -Atul Thakur
-The Times of India Terror casualties may make more headlines but in the past 15 years alone, love has killed more people than terror attacks. Between 2001 and 2015, love was the officially recorded reason for 38,585 murders and culpable homicide cases. Government records also link it with 79,189 suicides. Further, 2.6 lakh kidnapping cases were also filed in this period where marriage was mentioned as the motive of 'abducting' women. That's an...
More »NCRB data: For every civilian, two cops are injured in lathicharges -Deeptiman Tiwary
-The Indian Express In 2014 too, 557 policemen were injured in lathicharges, compared to 262 civilians. New Delhi: WHENEVER POLICE have lathicharged rioters or protesters, the number of injured has tended to be higher on their side — nearly twice as much, according to the latest crime data by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). In 327 lathicharges in 2015, 696 police personnel were injured to 298 civilians. In 2014 too, 557 policemen were injured in...
More »Pellets leave 3,000 injured in Kashmir
-The Hindu Data for 45 days say that of the 68 deaths, over 50 were in south Kashmir. Srinagar: Around 51 per cent of the 5,800 civilians injured in Kashmir in the ongoing violence were hit by pellets and most of them were in constituencies represented by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in south Kashmir. Srinagar, Budgam and Ganderbal districts saw relatively fewer injuries. Official data relating to 45 days of street...
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