-Caravan Magazine On 9 September 2018, five sanitation workers died due to inhalation of toxic fumes while cleaning a sewage tank in West Delhi. Several media reports regarding the incident noted that the men did not have any safety gear, indicating that the unavailability of equipment led to their death. The police reportedly registered a case against theengineer who was in charge of managing the sewage tank,under Sections 304 and 304A...

-Scroll.in Between 2007 and 2016, in 80.9% of reported cases, individuals in police custody in the state died before being produced in court, according to government data. On Sunday, a Dalit man died while in police custody on the outskirts of Dhanera town in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district. Lubaram Uttamaram, 25, a migrant labourer from Rajasthan’s Barmer district, was picked up by the police from a check post on the border of...

-PTI New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Friday overturned the acquittal of 20 people in the 2010 Mirchpur Dalit killing case while observing that instances of atrocities against Scheduled Castes had not abated even after 71 years of Independence. The court upheld the conviction of 13 people by a trial court and enhanced the punishment of some of the convicts. A 60-year-old Dalit and his physically challenged daughter were burnt alive by members...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: A parliamentary panel examining the functioning of India's food safety authority has sought an explanation for low conviction rates in cases of adulteration and misbranding of food items and criticised the slow implementation of proposals to upgrade state food-testing laboratories. The parliamentary standing committee on health has asked the health ministry to determine whether the low conviction rates in cases of misbranded or adultered food are due to...

-PTI New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Wednesday decriminalised begging in the national capital, saying provisions penalising the act were unconstitutional, nearly three months after wondering aloud how it could be treated as an offence in a country where the government was unable to provide food or jobs. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar said the inevitable consequence of the decision would be that prosecution...