-The Hindu Imphal: The Manipur Women's Commission has said it is imperative to hold an in-depth police investigation into the April 3 murder of Satyabhama Ningombam. Talking to journalists here, Chairperson Ibetombi Irengbam said the police should interact with the bereaved family, local residents and employees of the Pathology department of the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences here, where Sayabhama was a research fellow. The post-mortem report should be properly studied and if...
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Maoists used villagers as human shields in Gadchiroli encounter-Pavan Dahat
-The Hindu Gadchiroli: The villagers of Sindhesur village in Gadchiroli district , where seven people died during an encounter between police and the Maoists on Friday, alleged that the Maoists tried to use some of the villagers present at the spot as human shields. Two villagers of Sindhesur village Mukesh Hidko and Sukhdev Gawade died, apart from four Maoists and one police Jawan, in the cross firing between police and the Maoists...
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-PTI Bhadoi (UP): A court here has issued non-bailable warrants against 19 policemen in a 31-year-old fake encounter case, officials said here on Saturday. Chief Judicial Magistrate Ram Swaroop Saroj on Friday issued non-bailable warrants against 19 policemen and fixed April 30 as the next date of hearing. The police claimed to have killed one Devendra Singh in an encounter in the Gopiganj area here on April 4, 1982. Later the State government, on...
More »Aadhaar card: Many worried about privacy -Clara Lewis
-The Times of India MUMBAI: Unmindful of the chief minister himself telling the legislature that it is the Centre's directive that unless a district has 80% registration, providing subsidies through Aadhaar cannot be undertaken, citizens are being coerced into getting a UID number. "When we informed the school principal that Parliament is yet to pass the Bill, she categorically told us that there was no harm in obtaining the card. The deadline...
More »NHRC gives clean chit to Chhattisgarh Government on Soni Sori-Suvojit Bagchi
-The Hindu Raipur: While various national women's organisations decried an attempt to make Soni Sori, the tribal school teacher accused of acting as a courier between Essar Steel and outlawed Maoists, undergo a "psychiatric evaluation" as a "sinister ploy" by the Chhattisgarh government, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has given a clean chit to the State government on the treatment meted out to the tribal school teacher. Last week, Ms....
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