-The Telegraph In attendance at the Jantar Mantar rally were Jairam Ramesh and Ajay Maken of the Congress, which has been accused of lukewarm opposition to the verdict A civil society struggling to come to terms with the Supreme Court verdict in the Zakia Jafri case hit the streets on Monday against the arrest of human rights activist Teesta Setalvad and whistleblower police officer R.B. Sreekumar by Gujarat police. During a protest on...
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Gujarat: ATS DIG-led SIT to probe case against Setalvad and two ex-IPS officers booked for fabricating evidence
-The Telegraph/ PTI Investigation will be carried out by Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) of Ahmedabad Special Operations Group Ahmedabad: A Special Investigation Team (SIT), to be headed by Gujarat ATS DIG, will probe the case against activist Teesta Setalvad and former IPS officers RB Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt who have been accused of abusing the process of law by fabricating evidence to frame innocent people in connection with the 2002 Gujarat...
More »Botched Nagaland Ambush: 30 Soldiers Named In State Police Chargesheet -Ratnadip Choudhury and Vishnu Som
-NDTV.com Botched Nagaland Ambush: The state police chief said their Special Investigation Team, or SIT, has given the chargesheet to court. Guwahati: Thirty Army special forces soldiers have been named in a Nagaland Police chargesheet over a botched ambush last year that killed 14 civilians. The state police chief said their Special Investigation Team, or SIT, has given the chargesheet to court. It names one Army officer and 29 jawans. The SIT alleged...
More »Once a Peaceful State, why Madhya Pradesh is Seeing Spurt of Communal Violence -Kashif Kakvi
-Newsclick.in The state has recorded 479 cases of rioting in the last six months, according to Madhya Pradesh Police. Of them, over 30% of the cases are related to communal clashes. Bhopal: Nawab Khan (65) and Manjula Bai (55) are the victims of the latest communal violences that rocked Madhya Pradesh. Sitting outside their burnt houses in Sanjay Nagar locality of Madhya Pradesh's Khargone district, they say they have never witnessed such...
More »Sedition law: SC orders blanket stay on pending proceedings -R Balaji
-The Telegraph Court expresses 'hope' that the states and Centre would 'restrain from registering any FIR, continuing any investigation or taking any coercive measures' New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed “until further orders” all pending proceedings under the sedition law across the country, overruling the Centre’s objections by citing the government’s own stated intention to “re-examine and reconsider” the provision. The court also expressed “hope” that the states and the Centre...
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