-PTI Commission upset over 'steep rise' in cases Chandigarh: The National Commission for Scheduled Castes on Friday expressed strong displeasure over the failure of Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar governments to prevent "steep rise" in atrocities against people from weaker sections. "The commission is in the final stages of preparing a report card on the functioning of Haryana, Punjab, Bihar and UP governments regarding increase in cases of atrocities against Dalits," NCSC...
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Police reform: SC asks chief secretaries of states to file response
-PTI The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the chief secretaries of Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Goa to file their affidavits on compliance of its directions on police reforms and constituting state security commission (SSC). A bench headed by Justice GS Singhvi directed the chief secretaries to respond when the SSC was constituted and how many sittings had taken place and directed them to provide the minutes of the...
More »Third member of family in suicide pact dies
-The Times of India ROHTAK: One more member of the Hisar dalitfamily who had attempted suicide on Monday died in hospital on Tuesday, taking the toll to three. The nine-year-old boy breathed his last early on Tuesday while undergoing treatment atPGIMS in Rohtak. Doctors said the condition of two others, including an 11-year-old boy and his father, was still critical. On Monday, the mother and sister of a rape victim had died...
More »Dalits of Pabnawa take out protest march
-PTI Kaithal (Haryana): Scores of people belonging to a Dalit community of Pabnawa village took out a protest march today and held a demonstration in front of mini secretariat here, demanding arrest of the remaining accused in the violence in which several villagers and seven policemen were injured about 10 days ago. The Indian Bahujan Sandesh Party (Kanshi Ram) also held a demonstration in support of the demands of Dalits of...
More »Haryana rape victim's family attempts suicide, two dead
-IANS Chandigarh: Allegedly harassed by police over their missing daughter, who was a rape victim, a Dalit family in Haryana's Hisar district Monday attempted suicide, leaving two dead and three others in a critical condition. The mother of the rape victim and her sister were declared dead by doctors in Hisar civil hospital, 230 km from here, while the father and two brothers, aged 11 and nine, were admitted to the Post-Graduate...
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