-The Times of India KOLKATA: After months of being in denial mode over the rise in sexual crimes in Bengal, the Mamata Banerjee government has been forced to take action. Kolkata Police is setting up an exclusive unit by Independence Day to protect women, especially tourists. Women will make up half of this new squad. TOI has relentlessly campaigned to make the city safe for women and the activism has yielded results. The...
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Central policy on Raj Bhavan incumbents sowing seeds of mistrust, say activists -Rahul Karmakar
-The Hindustan Times Guwahati: Is it a coincidence that the militancy-mauled Northeast has had a large number of retired police, intelligence, army and paramilitary officers as governors? The first among them was general SM Shrinagesh, who took charge of undivided Assam in two phases, the first of which began in 1959. The separatism-troubled Naga Hills were then part of Assam. And now, former Delhi police commissioner KK Paul has replaced former BSF and...
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-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...
More »Ishrat was not a terrorist: CBI chargesheet -Prashant Dayal
-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 »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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