-The Hindu "Why this selective concern about encounter killings in Gujarat - these happen all over the country," pleaded Gujarat's lawyer at a Supreme Court hearing of veteran journalist B.G. Verghese's public interest petition on 22 unexplained police killings in that state. When a 13-year-old boy was abducted from a Delhi jhuggi by Gujarat police officials on a whim, the State government's defence was first that the boy was Bangladeshi, next that...
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Khaki death squads-Darshan Desai
-The Hindu Extraordinarily, more than a dozen senior police officers in Gujarat are in jail or facing prosecution, in connection with cold-blooded murders dressed up as encounter deaths. Darshan Desai traces the hand of politics in the extrajudicial killings. At a recent function in the state capital, Gandhinagar, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi warned the Central Bureau of Investigation against becoming a tool in the hands of the Congress-led union government. He...
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-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: Ishrat Jahan was not a terrorist, but the three others killed along with her in a fake encounter on the outskirts of Ahmedabad nine years ago had alleged terror links, the CBI has concluded in its chargesheet to be filed in the case before the Gujarat high court on Wednesday. The CBI has said the three - Pranesh Pillai alias Javed Shaikh, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan...
More »Big Forensic Science Laboratory backlog hampers probes
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) at Rohini has begun a fresh round of recruitments. That may help in clearing the huge backlog of cases here which hampers investigation and delivery of justice. There were 8991 cases pending till the beginning of this year. The pendency was highest in the chemistry unit with 5433 cases. Though there are 337 sanctioned posts at FSL, a staggering 194 are...
More »Bengal govt sits on CBI report in Nandigram case
-The Hindustan Times Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday blamed the Mamata Banerjee government for not granting sanction for the prosecution of the state police and other state officials in the Nandigram police firing case during the CPI(M) regime in 2007. Taking exception to the CBI's report, Justices Ashim Kumar Banerjee and Mrinal Kanti Chaudhuri directed the state to submit an action taken report on CBI's plea for granting...
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