-Press release by National Coalition for Strengthening SCs and STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Act (NCSPA) dated 1st October 2020 Despite explicit constitutional provision and guidelines, the Dalit community across India remain the worst sufferers of the scourge of the caste system, which perpetuates not an only social hierarchy but also institutional discrimination and social exclusion. In the last few months under Covid-19 pandemic, India witnessed an alarming increase in the cases...
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It isn’t first time Delhi Police probe into riots is being questioned. Happened in 1984 too -Revathi Krishnan
-ThePrint.in Several activists and civil servants have raised concerns about Delhi Police's investigation into February riots, calling it 'biased'. Something similar happened in 1984 as well. New Delhi: Activists, politicians, former IPS officers and many other civil servants have raised concerns about the Delhi Police probe into the February riots that led to the deaths of over 50 people. Nine former IPS officers even wrote to Delhi Police Commissioner S.N. Shrivastava asking him...
More »Delhi journalist arrested under the Official Secrets Act: What is this anti-spying law?
-The Indian Express Officials Secrets Act has its roots in the British colonial era. This was brought in with the main objective of muzzling the voice of a large number of newspapers that had come up in several languages, and were opposing the Raj’s policies The Delhi police has arrested a strategic affairs analyst and two others – a 30- year-old Chinese woman and her “Nepalese accomplice” – under the Official Secrets...
More »Delhi Riots 2020: Amnesty Report Accuses Police Of Rights Violations
-Outlook India The Delhi Riot that seemed far from spontaneous saw almost three times the number of Muslim casualties compared to Hindus,’ says report An Amnesty International India field investigation has documented several human rights violations committed by the Delhi police during the February 2020 Delhi riots, which claimed at least 53 lives. “These violations include Delhi Police Officers indulging in violence with the rioters; torturing in custody; using excessive force on protesters;...
More »Julio Ribeiro, retired IPS officer, interviewed by Jyoti Punwani (The Hindu)
-The Hindu He is 91 and still angry. The veteran cop talks of how the police-neta nexus can be broken Having tackled the underworld in Mumbai and Khalistani terror in Punjab, you’d think retired IPS officer Julio Ribeiro would have seen it all. Yet, the Vikas Dubey ‘encounter’ killing in Uttar Pradesh and the custodial deaths of a father and son in Tamil Nadu so shook the 91-year-old “supercop” that he wrote...
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