In this Independence Day week, State Of The Nation brings you an exclusive opinion poll across 20 states with 18,000 respondents. Corruption and scams are perhaps the biggest talking point at the moment and have clearly hurt the UPA Government. The results of the CNN-IBN-CNBC-TV18 State of the Nation Poll in association with Forbes India conducted by CSDS confirm what has been suspected - that the UPA's image has taken...
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Egg on Army face: J&K Encounter fake by Randeep Singh Nandal
SRINAGAR: Abu Usmaan alias Abu Adnan alias Doctor, top commander of Lashkar-e-Taiba, shot dead after a 12-hour Encounter. The Army had all the names right, except they shot the wrong man. The Poonch incident is now unraveling. Two men - a special police officer (SPO) and a Territorial Army jawan - have been arrested and charged with murder. And the LeT 'commander' was a man picked up from Rajouri and then...
More »Hang policemen involved in fake Encounters: SC
-Rediff.com Police personnel involved in fake Encounter killings should be awarded death sentence and hanged, the Supreme Court has said. A bench of justices Markandeya Katju and C K Prasad said that police personnel as custodians of law are expected to protect people and not eliminate them as contract killers. "Fake Encounter killings by cops are nothing but cold-blooded brutal murder, which should be treated as the rarest of rare offence...
More »Cops behind fake Encounters should be hanged, says SC
-The Times of India The Supreme Court on Monday said those responsible for fake Encounters should be given the death sentence and hanged in what marks a significant toughening of stand against extra-judicial killings by trigger happy cops. "Fake Encounter killings by cops are nothing but cold-blooded brutal murder which should be treated as the rarest of rare offence and police personnel responsible for it should be awarded death sentence. They...
More »UP tops fake Encounters list, Manipur follows: NHRC
-The Hindustan Times Uttar Pradesh has earned the dubious distinction of witnessing the highest number of fake Encounters, with nearly 120 people being allegedly killed by police in such incidents in the past three years. In the first six months of this year, six persons were killed in the state in alleged Encounters and their families have approached the National Human Rights Commission for justice. In 2010-11, NHRC received complaints that 40...
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