-The Telegraph Bangalore: Two Karnataka districts have shown the way forward by e-filing chargesheets through a dedicated network that automatically routes the documents to the respective courts in tamper-proof form. The pilot project that started in 2014 has thrown up new possibilities in the way the judiciary and police function, with thousands of chargesheets having been e-filed from Mysore and Mandya. The state now plans to take the change to other districts. Around...
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‘Nominal increase in Muslims in govt. jobs during Mamata rule’ -Shiv Sahay Singh
-The Hindu Kolkata: For all the claims of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government about the development of minorities in West Bengal, statistics tell a different story. Data revealed by a query under the Right to Information Act (RTI) Act 2005 shows that the number of Muslims employed with the Kolkata Police has increased only by 0.3 per cent in the past eight years, of which the TMC had been at the helm...
More »In Tamil Nadu’s Vazhavur, another story of Dalit death and prejudice -Arun Janardhanan
-The Indian Express Denied access to public road for funeral procession, Dalit mourners helpless as police forcibly take bodies, bury them. Madurai: WITH A straight face, M Karthikeyan says his grandparents, who died recently, received “the distinction of a state burial”. “They were buried by police, only the 21-gun salute was missing,” said the 30-year-old Dalit from Nagapattinam. Behind the dark humour, is a chilling story of how caste divisions in a Tamil Nadu...
More »SC: Is AFSPA in Manipur eternal? -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Manipur government how long the Army should be deployed in the state and enjoy unaccountable power under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and whether 35 years of the Army's presence had improved the law and order situation. The court had appointed a high-level inquiry committee headed by an ex-judge of the SC to inquire into allegations that...
More »Why India has a ‘low’ crime rate -Deeptiman Tiwary
-The Indian Express While Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands display high numbers of criminal activity, India stands with Yemen and Lebanon in the lower zone. Last month, when women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi was pushing through amendments to Juvenile Justice Act in Parliament that would lower the age of culpability as an adult from 18 to 16, she cited a rising number of crimes by juveniles. In the year...
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