-The Hindu This, however, would not apply when the accused is given life sentence The higher judiciary can impose 20, 25 or 30 years' sentence in a Murder case while commuting the death penalty of the accused to life imprisonment in cases which do not fall into the ‘rarest of rare' category. It can also limit the remission power of the State government, a Bench of Justices P. Sathasivam and M.Y. Eqbal,...
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Tribal women hit hardest by development: study
-The Hindu When displaced by development projects, many migrate to cities as servants, some are lured into prostitution Palakkad: A study conducted by Centre for Development Studies (CDS) on impact of development on tribal people has found that tribal women are the worst sufferers in this process of change. The study, titled ‘Withering Valli: Alienation, degradation and enslavement of tribal women in Attappady' and undertaken along with the Kerala Research Programme on Local...
More »The crisis in our community-Nilanjana S Roy
-The Hindu "Stopping rape" isn't possible unless we change the way we tackle and think about ordinary violence Some images stay branded on your mind. The brutality visited on three young girls, before their bodies were found in a well; the pain of a five-year-old whose rapist used candles and an oil bottle to violate her further; the anger of the Dalit rape survivor in Uttar Pradesh who was told by a...
More »The latest attacks on Haryana's dalits show up the state's failure to protect weaker sections
-The Times of India Several laws have been enacted and commissions set up for the protection of scheduled castes and tribes. Yet violence and discrimination against underprivileged communities go on with impunity. The latest in the long list of such incidents took place in Haryana, where over 200 dalit families were forced to migrate from Pabnawa village following attacks on them by upper caste Ror community members. The reason for...
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-PTI Bhadoi (UP): A court here has issued non-bailable warrants against 19 policemen in a 31-year-old fake encounter case, officials said here on Saturday. Chief Judicial Magistrate Ram Swaroop Saroj on Friday issued non-bailable warrants against 19 policemen and fixed April 30 as the next date of hearing. The police claimed to have killed one Devendra Singh in an encounter in the Gopiganj area here on April 4, 1982. Later the State government, on...
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