-The Indian Express Assam is sitting on a volcano, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said today, as fresh deaths were reported from violence-hit Kokrajhar district, with three people killed late last night. A group of 10-12 miscreants attacked village Ranighuli, barely 10 km from the district headquarters, with AK-47s at around 10.30 last night, leaving Hasinru Ali (30), Sofiel Rahman (26) and Asmat Ali (22) dead and two persons injured. Kokrajhar SP Sunil...
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Army officers involved in arms racket, Supreme Court told-Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India Months after the Army punished 73 officers for illegal sale of their non-service weapons to arms dealers in Rajasthan's border districts, the Supreme Court was told on Monday that Army units deputed in Jammu and Kashmir were found to be involved in 104 cases of sale purchase of weapons of various types. The Army was forced to take action against its officers after the Supreme Court raised security...
More »20km from Delhi, a ‘child kidnap capital’-Tapas Chakraborty
-The Telegraph Ten-year-old Ayush Chauhan was smart as well as lucky. The Class IV student gave a fictitious phone number to the three kidnappers who had dragged him into a car on a Ghaziabad street on May 11. As they kept trying the number to make a ransom call to his father, Ayush gave them the slip. Eighteen-day-old Saumya Lodi had no such luck when two masked men kidnapped her from her home...
More »The lesser half-TK Rakalakshmi
The Guwahati molestation incident throws light on the violence women face overtly and covertly in India, at home and outside. The shocking incident of the beating and molestation of a young woman by a mob in Guwahati in Assam on July 9 has exposed the ugly underbelly of modern, globalised India, where women face violence, covertly and overtly, at home and outside. The incident has also exposed the lackadaisical manner in...
More »Anti-bribery law to hit pvt sector-Aloke Tikku
-The Hindustan Times The government has shielded its officials from harassment by anti-corruption sleuths but left the private sector at the mercy of the police under a proposed anti-bribery law targeting the private sector. The home ministry’s proposed amendment to the Indian Penal Code (IPC) criminalises bribery amongst individuals, trusts and firms and prescribes a maximum jail of 7 years for the guilty. But it gives the police a free hand to...
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