-The Telegraph The media’s culpability is damaging India’s interests Media culpability can damage a country’s interests. Two recent instances will suffice to illustrate the point. The media’s role in recent events triggered by a Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson’s remarks on Prophet Mohammed has received less attention than it deserves. The focus has been on the offending spokesperson. There was mayhem across the land on account of a television news show. The tally...
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Allahabad HC Rejects Bail Pleas of 34 Former PAC Constables in 1991 Fake Encounter Case
-PTI/ TheWire.in According to the prosecution case, on July 12, 1991, UP Police pulled 10-11 Sikh pilgrims out of a bus, shot them and later called them 'terrorists' to cover up the incident. Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court has rejected the bail pleas of 34 former constables of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) accused of killing 10 Sikh men in an alleged fake encounter in 1991. “The gruesome murder of...
More »Supreme Court recognises sex work as a ‘profession’ -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu The apex court says police should neither interfere nor take criminal action against adult and consenting sex workers In a significant order recognising sex work as a “profession” whose practitioners are entitled to dignity and equal protection under law, the Supreme Court has directed that police should neither interfere nor take criminal action against adult and consenting sex workers. “It need not be gainsaid that notwithstanding the profession, every individual in...
More »SKM appreciate's Supreme Court's decision to cancel the bail of Ashish Mishra, the main accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident
-Press release by Samyukta Kisan Morcha dated 18th April, 2022 By canceling the bail of the main accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri murder case, Ashish Mishra alias Monu, the Supreme Court has restored hope in the justice system After this order of the Supreme Court, Ajay Mishra Teni should be immediately sacked from the post of minister, failing which SKM will protest nationwide Justice should be given to the farmers implicated in the...
More »This is a criminal attack on privacy -Apar Gupta and Abhinav Sekhri
-The Hindu The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill 2022 erodes the privacy of those convicted of crime and the ordinary citizen Springing a surprise, the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Ajay Mishra Teni, on Monday introduced the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill 2022. The Bill was neither put up for pre-legislative consultation nor indicated in the session’s legislative agenda in Parliament. Seemingly technical, it is a legislative proposal that undermines the privacy...
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