-PTI/ NDTV.com The court discharged former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain's brother Shah Alam and two others in a case related to alleged loot and vandalization of a shop during the riots. New Delhi: A court in Delhi on Thursday came down heavily on the Delhi Police for its probe into a 2020 riots case, saying that its failure to conduct a proper investigation will "torment" the sentinels of democracy when history will...
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Delhi riots will be remembered for police's failure to conduct proper probe: Court while discharging accused -Aneesha Mathur
-IndiaToday.in A Delhi court said the police 'made no effort' in the northeast Delhi riots investigation. A Delhi court pulled up the Delhi Police over lack of proper investigation into the 2020 northeast Delhi riots, while discharging three men accused of rioting, arson and various offences. One of the accused includes Shah Alam, brother of former Aam Aadmi Party councillor Tahir Hussain. The case relates to the looting and damage caused to Anand...
More »CCTV Of Jharkhand Judge's Murder Spurs Outrage, Raised In Supreme Court -A Vaidyanathan, Manish Kumar and Sukirti Dwivedi
-NDTV.com Jharkhand judge's death: Chief Justice NV Ramana said the Jharkhand High Court "has taken up the issue and the case is now on". Dhanbad, Jharkhand: The death of a judge in Jharkhand on Wednesday in what was initially believed to be a hit-and-run has taken a chilling turn with security footage of the incident leading to a murder investigation. As the killing generated shock and rage, Chief Justice of India NV...
More »In a passing, the larger picture of dispossession -Chitrangada Choudhury
-The Hindu Blaming ‘the system’ alone for Father Stan Swamy’s death obscures how India’s political economy is linked to deprival When an officer from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) came to interrogate Father Stan Swamy last monsoon, the Jesuit sociologist, then 83, in turn asked him about police integrity, and why a father-son duo (P. Jayaraj and Bennicks) should die of custodial torture in a Tamil Nadu police lock-up. It was quintessential...
More »Migrant workers bore the brunt of 2020 lockdown due their poor access to social security schemes & legal rights, depicts latest NHRC report
The rise in COVID-19 daily new cases and daily new deaths compelled many state governments to impose local level lockdowns during April-May 2021. As of 20th April, 2021, partial lockdowns were noticed in 10 states across the country and complete lockdown was imposed in Delhi. As of 8th May, 2021, nearly the entire country was under complete lockdown as a result of either partial lockdowns and night curfews or complete...
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