-The Telegraph Can issuing work permits and settling people outside Assam resolve the problem temporarily? In his Outlook article, (retired Union Cabinet secretary and a long-time North-east hand at the Centre) G.K. Pillai offered a temporary arrangement of granting ‘a five-year work permit’ to those not included in the final NRC, basically to maintain status quo, ‘to calm things down and allow a range of policy options to be developed carefully over...
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The darkest hour: ADM Jabalpur was a test for SC. Only the dissenter passed it -Seema Chishti
-The Indian Express As legal scholar Gautam Bhatia put it in Transformative Constitution, Justice Khanna’s dissent would constitute a “contrapuntal” or something that appears as a counterpoint, often solitary, against the tide at the time, but something that conceals the kernel of the future and the way ahead, which lives on to speak forcefully, another day. Costa Gavras’ 1982 film Missing is a haunting story of what a military dictatorship does...
More »Press release--Status of Policing in India Report 2019: Police Adequacy and Working Conditions
-Press release by Common Cause dated 27th August, 2019 New Delhi, August 27, 2019: Common Cause and Lokniti Programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), launched the Status of Policing in India Report (SPIR) 2019 on the tough working conditions of the police in India at the India International Centre today. The release was followed by a panel discussion on ‘Indian Police and the Rule of...
More »Press Council criticises media curbs
-The Hindu In a letter to all PCI members, PCI secretary Anupama Bhatnagar said Ms. Bhasin’s petition was expected to come up in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. New Delhi: Facing criticism over its stand in the Supreme Court that reasonable restrictions on free speech were acceptable when national interest was at stake, the Press Council of India (PCI) on Tuesday decided to tell the court that it opposes any restrictions on...
More »Survey: 50 per cent cops feel Muslims naturally prone to crime
-The Indian Express It also found that 35 per cent of police personnel interviewed for the survey think it is natural for a mob to punish the “culprit” in cases of cow slaughter, and 43 per cent think it is natural for a mob to punish someone accused of rape. One in two police personnel surveyed feel that Muslims are likely to be “naturally prone” to committing crimes, the 2019 Status...
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