-NDTV New Delhi: In a new twist to the investigation into the Murder of Govind Pansare, it appears that well known Marathi journalist Nikhil Wagle was also the alleged target of the right-wing groups suspected to have killed Mr Pansare. According to police sources, Sameer Gaikwad, member of the Sanatan Sanstha, the extremist group suspected to be behind the killing of Mr Pansare is allegedly heard in phone conversations saying after Mr...
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Maharashtra most unsafe for RTI activists; 10 killed in 10 years -Anahita Mukherji
-The Times of India MUMBAI: It's been a year since Sandeep Shetty quit his job and began fighting full time to bring his brother's killers to book. Court hearings and a botched up CBI probe have taken up much of his time over the last five years, ever since his brother Satish was knifed to death in Pune while using the Right To Information Act to expose land scams along the...
More »Children's cries get louder in TN -Kavita Kishore
-The Hindu In a span a four years, crimes against children up by 200%, reveals study. Chennai: Over the years, there has been a marked increase in cases of crimes against children in the state, with the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data revealing a 190.6 per cent increase in crimes against children from 2010 to 2014, according to an analysis of the data released recently. One statistic that stands out is the...
More »Murder count in India falls to its lowest level since 1960s -Atul Thakur
-The Times of India Believe it or not, the Murder rate in India in the past few years has been at its lowest level since the 1960s. Even the absolute number of Murders in 2014 was lower than in 1992, the year when the Murder rate (number of Murders per lakh of population) was at its highest. The counter-intuitive fact emerges from an analysis of data from the National Crime Records Bureau's...
More »Children of a different law -G Sampath
-The Hindu A recent sting video shows the men acquitted in the Laxmanpur Bathe case boasting about the same massacre. Will the passing of the Prevention of Atrocities (Amendment) Bill finally change the way justice is delivered to Dalits? On the night of December 1, 1997, in Laxmanpur Bathe, a village in Bihar’s Arwal district 90 km from Patna, 58 Dalits were slaughtered by a gang of dominant caste men that went...
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