With the arrest of two drivers of trucks transporting wheat and other food grains meant for the Public Distribution System (PDS) by the Wadgaon Road police on Sunday night, the unabated PDS food grain pilferage racket stands exposed once again. According to Wadgaon Road police station officer (PSO) Baijnath Latpatte, drivers Firoz Shah Kasam (40) and Rafique Shah Kasam (45), both residents of Jafar Nagar, Yavatmal, were arrested after registering...

It was widely reported in the print media that G.D. Gautama, the Home Secretary of West Bengal, in his affidavit before the Hon’ble Calcutta High Court in the Netai killings affair, hesitantly admitted the existence of illegal armed intruders in that village while denying any knowledge of the existence of similar harmad camps elsewhere in the Jungle Mahal area. One cannot avoid applauding his gallantry in holding our national motto...

Sentenced to life in prison on sedition charges, rights activist Binayak Sen was refused bail by the Chattisgargh High Court on Thursday. Sen's family and supporters allege, there was prejudice in the way the case was being handled. They will now appeal in the Supreme Court. Charged with sedition, Dr Binayak Sen will continue to be in jail for much longer. The Chhattishgarh High Court in Bilaspur took just two minutes to refuse...

Framing of charges and examination of accused mechanical The Supreme Court has expressed serious concern at the shoddy trial of criminal cases in Bihar, and asked the Patna High Court to take immediate corrective steps. A Bench Justices Aftab Alam and R.M. Lodha, while setting aside the life sentence awarded to a man in a murder case, said: “We are constrained to say that this is not an isolated case, but...

The trial court judgment holding Binayak Sen guilty of sedition has led to widespread outrage. IN India's legal history, no trial court judgment in a criminal case has perhaps caused as much international outrage as the December 24, 2010, judgment of the Second Additional District and Sessions Judge of Raipur, B.P. Verma, did. In his 92-page judgment, Judge Verma convicted Dr Binayak Sen, the well-known human rights activist and medical...