-The Hindu The Congress has steered clear of any debate on the AFSPA, leaving a politically untenable choice for the next government: repeal the Act or leave it untouched With its recent decision to extend the implementation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Manipur by another year, the United Progressive Alliance's opportunistic posturing on the legislation has come full circle. The UPA's rendezvous with the AFSPA began months after it...
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Ensure child rights in jails, govt told -Sumir Karmakar
-The Telegraph Guwahati: The National NGO Child Rights Coalition (NNCRC), an umbrella organisation of NGOs working for children, has urged the Assam government to protect the rights of children living in prisons or detention camps for illegal immigrants. These children live in prison because that is where their parents live and they have nowhere else to go. The appeal came just days after a four-member team of the NNCRC found seven children, including...
More »CBI can’t act as a police force, Gauhati High Court rules -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In a startling decision which has ramifications for sensitive cases, the Gauhati High Court has ruled that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was legally not a police force and stripped it of its powers to investigate crimes, arrest suspects and file charge-sheets. The ministry of home affairs (MHA) had, by a resolution dated April 1, 1963, constituted the CBI as a police force under the...
More »Life convict can't claim to be released after 14 years: Supreme Court
-PTI The Supreme Court has held that a life convict cannot claim to have a right to be released after spending 14 years behind the bars. A bench of P Sathasivam and J S Khehar said that life imprisonment means imprisonment for whole life and only the President and the Governors can remit the sentence and allow the convict to be released. The bench, however, said that in those cases the government should...
More »Court notice to Assam government, education board, school on hijab issue
-The Hindu Respondents given four weeks to respond to mother's plea Guwahati: The Gauhati High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the Assam government, the Board of Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA), and the managing committee and Principal of Kristo Jyoti School in Bokakhat, upper Assam, asking them to show cause in four weeks as to why a petition, which challenged an order of the school authorities - debarring a four-year-old nursery student,...
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