The NHRC has looked into 45 such cases in the last 4 months The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Punjab Government to pay a relief of Rs.5 lakh to the family of murder convict Sukhchain Singh who died of injuries sustained due to beating by a warder of Amritsar jail on July 2, 2009. He had been lodged in the Prison since September 22, 2004. The NHRC intervened upon...
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Malnourished baby dead, parents booked 6 months later for ‘negligence’ by Milind Ghatwai
Six months after she died, police in Bhopal have acted on the death of a two-year-old, malnourished girl. They have booked her parents, charging them with “causing death by negligence”. Activists say that this is perhaps the first instance in India where parents have been blamed for death caused by malnourishment. Adviser to Supreme Court commissioners in the right to food case Sachin Jain said the administration always tried to push malnutrition...
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-EPW Despite curative measures and judgments, undertrials who are poor continue to rot in jails. The public debate over bail to the 2G spectrum accused and the controversy over the parole granted to murder convict Manu Sharma has unfortunately sidestepped a much more pressing concern – the plight of poor undertrial Prisoners who have spent years inside jail without being convicted of any offence. A series of Supreme Court judgments over the...
More »Jailed Journalists Reflect Greater Struggle for Internet Freedom by Rosemary D'Amour
The number of journalists in Prison worldwide has spiked to its highest level in 15 years. Of them, nearly half worked online, raising larger questions about Internet freedom for more than just reporters, but average citizens as well. Eighty-six out of 179 journalists who were in Prison worldwide as of Dec. 1, 2011 were reporters or bloggers whose work appeared online, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect...
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-The Hindu Say youths, accused of involvement in Jaipur blasts, declared innocent now Two-and-a-half years ago, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced in a national conference on internal security in New Delhi that the horrifying case of serial blasts in Jaipur on May 13, 2008 — in which 69 persons were killed — stood resolved with the arrest of “radical youths” in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh as well as some Students Islamic...
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