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Ghaziabad fake encounter: 4 UP cops get life sentence for 1996 Bhojpur murders -Peeyush Khandelwal

-Hindustan Times Ghaziabad (U.P.): A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Wednesday sentenced four Uttar Pradesh cops including a Station House Officer to life imprisonment in the Ghaziabad fake encounter case. The four - inspector of Bhojpur police station, a sub inspector and two constables - were convicted for gunning down four daily wagers in an encounter in Bhojpur in November 1996. The four cops were held guilty of murder, destruction...

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The Indian caste where wives are forced into sex work -Maya Prabhu

-AlJazeera.com For girls and women from the Perna caste, entering the sex trade is a normal next step after marriage and childbirth. New Delhi: When Sita* comes home in the morning, her husband is usually still asleep. She has worked through the night, selling sex on the highways tracing Delhi's periphery, but she will bathe, cook breakfast, and get the children ready for school before getting some rest herself. Here, in a tumble-down...

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For Gond tribals, depositing cash a Herculean task -Suvojit Bagchi

-The Hindu They are often detained for carrying their annual savings — Rs.5,000 to Rs.6,000 — to nearby banks. Kolkata: Deep inside the forested areas of Bastar in south Chhattisgarh, the Gond tribals are confronting a “new problem” besides the usual ones. They are often detained for carrying their annual savings — Rs.5,000 to Rs.6,000 — to nearby banks, which is commonly as far as 50 km from their villages. “We are suspected...

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NHRC issues notices to MP's top bureaucrat, cops for SIMI men's killing

-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The country’s human rights watchdog has issued notices to the Madhya Pradesh government and state police for the shooting of eight Islamist prisoners who had escaped from a Bhopal jail. The National Human Rights Commission sent notices the state’s chief secretary, director general of police, director general of prisons & inspector general of prisons for the killing alleged activists of the Students Islamic Movement of India. The men fled...

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SC recipe for 'fake encounters' is harsh, ranges from probe to death penalty for cops -Krishnadas Rajagopal

-The Hindu New Delhi: As videos of the alleged Police encounter of eight SIMI men who broke out of the Bhopal Central Jail continue to raise demands for a judicial probe, a series of Supreme Court judgments show that the law is heavily, even fatally, loaded against police officers found guilty of 'fake encounters'. One of the judgments even recommends death penalty to “trigger-happy” cops and compares them to Nazi war criminals...

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