In 1953, the authors of India's first-ever crime survey presented a grim picture of the state of the new country's police forces. “There has been,” authors of Crime in Indiareported, “no improvement in the methods of investigation or in the application of science to this work. No facilities exist in any of the rural police stations and even in most of the urban police stations for scientific investigation.” From the National Crime...
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Order impartial probe into Sori torture, says Rights Watch by J Balaji
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to immediately order an impartial probe into the role of the Chhattisgarh police in the case of alleged torture of tribal teacher Soni Sori, now detained in the Raipur jail on charges of helping Maoists. It wants proper medical facilities provided to the 35-year-old mother, who was tortured so badly that “...two foreign body [sic] recovered of size 2.5 x 1.5...
More »Indian NGOs' long march by Ajit Balakrishnan
When I hear the word “NGO”, the image evoked in my mind is that of my mother setting us homework to do on a Saturday morning and going off with her friends to teach knitting and sewing to indigent young girls in our hometown, Kannur, in the Malabar area of Kerala. My mother and her friends – wives of doctors, Lawyers, government officials and prominent businessmen – had committed their...
More »CBI Lawyers take Rs 1.25 crore to dilute Adarsh charges, held
-The Times of India A conspiracy to dilute charges against accused persons in the Adarsh housing society scam by CBI Lawyers has been unearthed with the arrest of special public prosecutor Mandar Goswamy, CBI counsel in Mumbai high court in Adarsh and other cases, income tax lawyer J K Jagiasi, former Congress MLC Kanhaiya Lal Gidwani (accused in the Adarsh scam) and his son Kailash. The accused Lawyers reportedly took Rs 1.25...
More »Novartis vs India: the showdown approaches by Simon Reid-Henry
The Swiss-based pharmaceutical giant Novartis is taking the state of India to court in a case that has, after rumbling about in the lower courts for six years, wound up as a very public litmus test of the legal framework sustaining India’s generic drugs revolution. With the case due before the Supreme Court on 28 March, the fate of millions who depend on affordable Indian medicines may soon hang in the...
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