-The Times of India KORAPUT: Underpaid and tortured at workplace, six tribals were rescued by Malkangiri police in association with their Hassan counterparts in Karnataka on Saturday. According to sources, an agent identified as Rama Khillo of Sileru in Andhra Pradesh had lured these people, aged between 20 and 25 years, from Malkangiri district's RAC 1 village underKorkunda block with promises of better livelihood at Hassan on April 5. "These people were taken...
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No Maoists were present when forces opened fire, say villagers-Suvojit Bagchi
-The Hindu Raipur: "The villagers gathered in one particular area for community dining, which is a ritual at this time of the year. It is part of the seed festival and there were no Maoists around. The forces opened fire without any provocation," said a local on condition of anonymity. Locals of Chhattisgarh's Edesmeta village - where at least nine persons were killed during a gun battle late on Friday purportedly between...
More »HC acquits Pappu Yadav in Ajit Sarkar murder case
-The Hindu Patna: The Patna High Court on Friday acquitted the former Lok Sabha MP, Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, and two others in the 1998 murder case of Communist Party of India (Marxist) MLA Ajit Sarkar. A division bench of Justices V.N. Sinha and Amaresh Kumar Lal overturned the February 2008 order of the lower court, which had convicted Mr. Yadav, Rajan Tiwari and Anil Kumar Yadav of murder and criminal...
More »Jharkhand Special police Officers caught in a spiral of violence and retribution-Anumeha Yadav
-The Hindu Khunti (Jharkhand): On the night of April 30, worshippers in the Raja Rani temple in Naurhi village in Adki block near Ranchi were singing, chanting and celebrating the new temple in their village when a group of CPI (Maoists) entered the temple and shot Dilip Acharya, the oldest of the three brothers who built the temple, dead as he lay asleep on the floor. The men then addressed...
More »Adivasi forum leader remanded in judicial custody
-The Hindu Bhopal: Madhuri Krishnaswamy, leader of Jagrit Adivasi Dalit Sangathan (JADS) which works for health and labour rights in south-western Madhya Pradesh, was remanded in judicial custody for a fortnight on Thursday. Ms. Krishnaswamy, popularly called Madhuri Ben, and four others were summoned by Judicial Magistrate First Class D.P. Singh Sewach in Barwani in connection with a 2008 case of rioting and assaulting a public servant. The police had filed a closure...
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