-Hindustan Times In the states ruled by the BJP, elaborate security arrangements have been made to prevent farmer bodies and opposition parties to disrupt normal life. Additional security forces have been deployed in all districts in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Bihar. The 10-hour Bharat Bandh on Monday may disrupt road and rail traffic in states ruled by opposition parties as they are supporting the call for a general strike...
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No resistance or debate on laws that want accused to prove innocence, not the state the guilt -Aakar Patel
-National Herald Gujarat Police failed to prove that a man served beef to his guests, because food had already been consumed. Yet, a Gujarat court sent him to jail because he couldn't prove that he hadn't served beef India follows the Common Law system introduced to it by Great Britain. However, it has introduced innovations as an independent nation, and one of these is to reverse burden of proof. In several criminal...
More »Misleading headlines, cropped visuals: How local reportage on Assam eviction had a ‘slant’ -Samrat X
-Newslaundry.com Print and TV media in Assam gave no space to those being evicted. On September 23, a video clip from Assam went viral. It shows a man clad in lungi and vest carrying a stick chasing behind a fleeing policeman who runs to join a larger group of his colleagues. Immediately the man with the stick is shot at by the police and falls to the ground, after which he is...
More »18 years after inter-caste couple was poisoned in public, TN court finds 13 guilty -Nirupa Sampath
-TheNewsMinute.com A Dalit man and a Vanniyar woman had become victims to her family’s wrath in 2003. They were poisoned in public and their bodies burnt. On July 7, 2003, a young couple- Murugesan and Kannagi- were tied up at a public place in front of almost 300 people in the Puthukkooraippettai village near Virudhachalam in Tamil Nadu- they were forced to drink poison and then their bodies burnt. Eighteen years after...
More »Facts vs. frenzy in the ‘encounter’ killings in the Disha gang-rape and murder case -Padmaja Shaw
-The Hindu As the ‘encounter’ killings in Hyderabad’s infamous Disha case are examined by a Commission, a look at how the rule of law is steadily losing ground “We are examining a very important matter. A serious matter of fact-finding that has a great impact on society. People are concerned. Some may express it, some may not,” Justice Rekha Sundar Baldota, a former judge of Bombay High Court, said during the Justice...
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