A labourer has been killed by the Maoists as he refused to pay extortion money at Dungri village in Palamau district, the police said here today.Raj Dev Turi (42) was dragged out from his house by a dozen armed Maoists and shot him dead last night after he refused to pay them 'levy' (extortion), Deputy Superintendent of police, Sudarshan Mandal, told newsmen here.Turi was working as a labourer in some...
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NHRC seeks report on police excesses in Dantewada by J Balaji
Takes suo motu cognisance of the March 23 report published by The Hindu NEW DELHI: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), taking suo motu cognisance of the March 23 report published by The Hindu on murders, violence and rape in a Chhattisgarh village, has sought a report within two weeks from the Union Home Secretary, Chhattisgarh Chief Secretary and the Director-General of police (DGP). Agnivesh attacked Social Activist Swami Agnivesh, who was attacked...
More »Burning of villages: Chhattisgarh government blames it on Maoists by Aman Sethi
A week after The Hindu first published allegations that security forces burnt close to 300 homes, sexually assaulted three women and killed at least three men (two are still missing) in three villages in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, the State government finally broke its silence and blamed the atrocities on Maoist guerillas. Speaking in the Vidhan Sabha, Home Minister Nankiram Kanwar admitted that 327 troopers of the Chhattisgarh police and the Central...
More »Madhya Pradesh government has no information about flight that took Anderson out of Bhopal
Details of use of state government plane to ferry Union Carbide Chairman Warren Anderson out of Bhopal in 1984 are not available with the Madhya Pradesh government, state's aviation directorate has said. Responding to an RTI application seeking to know who had sanctioned the flight which took Anderson to Delhi soon after the Bhopal gas tragedy in December 1984, the aviation directorate, after nine months of the application having been filed,...
More »Lokayukta police not to file FIR
Yeddyurappa gets a breather The Lokayuka police have decided not to file a First Information Report (FIR) in the investigation of corruption charges against Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, his sons B.Y. Raghavendra, MP, and B.Y. Vijayendra, his son-in-law R.N. Sohan Kumar, the former BJP Minister S.N. Krishnaiah Setty and Davalagiri Property Developers Ltd., partly owned by Mr. Yeddyurappa's kin. The Lokayukta police were given six weeks to conduct an inquiry into...
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