-The Indian Express She cannot tell her story. Instead, her grieving family, a tense village in Hathras riven by deep fault lines, and a sordid drama by police and the administration, have taken over the narrative. The Sunday Express reports from her home. Hathras: IT WAS a busy month on the sewing machine for the 19-year-old. On August 26, a baby was born, her brother’s third daughter. Apart from the usual embroidery...
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Blame on UP cops for assaults on Dalit girls
-The Telegraph Rights group demands that the cases be tried in fast-track courts New Delhi: A leading Dalit rights group on Wednesday described the fatal gang rape and torture of a teenaged Dalit girl in Hathras as the tip of an iceberg of atrocities against deprived segments of the population in Uttar Pradesh. The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) blamed the indifference of the police for the increasing assaults on Dalit...
More »It isn’t first time Delhi police probe into riots is being questioned. Happened in 1984 too -Revathi Krishnan
-ThePrint.in Several activists and civil servants have raised concerns about Delhi police's investigation into February riots, calling it 'biased'. Something similar happened in 1984 as well. New Delhi: Activists, politicians, former IPS officers and many other civil servants have raised concerns about the Delhi police probe into the February riots that led to the deaths of over 50 people. Nine former IPS officers even wrote to Delhi police Commissioner S.N. Shrivastava asking him...
More »Farm bill protest: Five detained for setting tractor on fire at India Gate
-The Hindu The incident occured at around 7.15 a.m. on Monday. A tractor was set on fire at Delhi’s India Gate by a group of men protesting against the farm Bills on Monday morning. Eish Singhal, DCP (New Delhi), said that around 15 to 20 persons gathered at Rajpath near India Gate at around 7.15 a.m. and tried to set a tractor on fire. The fire has been doused and the tractor removed....
More »Delhi journalist arrested under the Official Secrets Act: What is this anti-spying law?
-The Indian Express Officials Secrets Act has its roots in the British colonial era. This was brought in with the main objective of muzzling the voice of a large number of newspapers that had come up in several languages, and were opposing the Raj’s policies The Delhi police has arrested a strategic affairs analyst and two others – a 30- year-old Chinese woman and her “Nepalese accomplice” – under the Official Secrets...
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