-Express News Service The Ahmedabad Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) on Sunday arrested Mushir Ismail Qureshi, the main conspirator in the murder case of RTI activist and 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case witness Nadeem Saiyed. Qureshi was arrested near the Ahmedabad international airport in the early hours of the day following a tip-off. “Qureshi, a builder by profession and a key conspirator in Sayed’s murder, was arrested after he landed at the...
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Some States fight the trend but.…by P Sainath
Five States did manage a significant decline in the average number of farm suicides between 2003 and 2010. However, more States have reported increases over the same period. The television story was genuine and sensitive. At least 90 farmers, it said, had committed suicide in two months in Andhra Pradesh. These were cotton growers. Actually, last year, Andhra farmers killed themselves at the rate of 210 each month on average, according...
More »A verdict, finally by Anupama Katakam
The first judgment in a 2002 riots case and the SIT report on the Ishrat Jahan killing go against the Gujarat government. THE verdict in a crucial and long-running case involving a massacre and the investigation report in another case, of alleged encounter killings, both delivered in November, give hope to victims of the 2002 pogrom in Gujarat that they will get justice, even if delayed. In the first case, the special...
More »India 'honour killers' face death for 1991 murders
-BBC A judge in India has sentenced eight men to death and 20 others to life imprisonment for three so-called honour killings that took place in 1991. The men were found guilty of murdering a Dalit boy and a girl from a higher caste who had eloped together, as well as the boy's cousin. All three were set alight and hanged, the court in Uttar Pradesh state heard. A BBC correspondent says the sentences...
More »Malegaon blasts accused want dignity back
The enduring memory that he has of his father is when the police took him away from the dinner table as the family had just sat down to eat their food. “He had barely put the first morsel in his mouth when the police came to pick him up. After that day five years ago, it will be today that the entire family will again have food together,” 11-year-old Osama Raees...
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