-NDTV Kolkata: It took nearly two and a half hours for the hearse of Sudipto Gupta, the 22-year-old student activist who died in police custody, to make its way from central Kolkata to the crematorium. Thousands paid tribute to him outside the office of the Students Federation of India, the student wing of the CPI(M), of which Mr Gupta was a member. Grief and anger filled the streets of the city as the...
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KKM activists sent to custody
-The Hindu Mumbai: Two activists of the Kabir Kala Manch (KKM) - Sheetal Sathe and Sachin Mali - who staged a ‘satyagraha' outside the Maharashtra Assembly on Tuesday were sent to custody by a Mazagaon court on Wednesday following their arrest by the Mumbai police. Mali was sent to police custody till April 10 and Sathe to judicial custody till April 17, their counsel Mihir Desai said. Both the activists, accompanied by political...
More »Rights body directs police to probe SFI leader’s death
-The Hindu The Opposition, including the Left Front, has demanded a thorough probe into the incident. Taking a serious view of the death of Students' Federation of India leader Sudipta Gupta in police custody, the West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC) directed the City Police Commissioner on Wednesday to probe the matter and submit a report within seven days. "The Commission has taken suo motu cognisance of the matter and directed the Commissioner...
More »Fast track courts likely for cases involving “innocent Muslims”-Sandeep Joshi
-The Hindu Shinde assures MPs that such courts will be set up to expedite trial Amid charges of "innocent" Muslims being falsely implicated in terror cases, the Union government is likely to set up fast track courts to expedite their trial. Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde gave the assurance to a group of MPs and civil rights activists who met him to demand a "clear-cut time frame" for setting up such courts and freeing...
More »West Bengal student leader dies in police custody; SFI alleges murder
-The Times of India KOLKATA: A 22-year-old post graduate student and leader of CPM's students' wing SFI, died of injuries sustained in police custody, prompting the Left Front to demand a judicial probe on Tuesday while chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her senior cabinet colleagues attended the IPL inauguration ceremony barely a few km away. Police claimed SFI state committee member Sudipto Gupta's death was an accident while the victim's kin alleged...
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