-The Hindustan Times Adhering to Mao Tse-Tung's guerrilla warfare style of surrounding urban centres from the countryside, Communist Party of India (Maoist) has unleashed a long-term grand plan of expansion. Their target is the restive northeast where they plan to build their presence steadily in villages. "The plan is five-pronged and is centred on building up support networks in the villages of Assam and Tripura as of now. Then it will move...
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Tribals were paraded nude: Odisha police
-New Indian Express The SP of Sundergarh district of Odisha has admitted before the NHRC that a tribal senior citizen and three women were forced to walk nude in a procession to all the nearby hamlets of Kiralaga, a village under Talsara police station.The SP submitted his report after the NHRC issued notice to the DGP on a petition filed by Supreme Court lawyer and rights activist Radhakanta Tripathy in this...
More »Time to let the caged bird sing-Raju Ramachandran
-The Hindu In making a case for the investigative agency's autonomy, the Supreme Court is only stepping in where the executive has failed The proceedings in the Coalgate case earlier this week saw the Supreme Court asking the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) many uncomfortable questions. The Court also asked the government to tell it what steps it was going to take to enact a law to ensure the CBI's autonomy. The...
More »Setback to Mamata as court rules in favour of 3-phase polls-Shiv Sahay Singh
-The Hindu Kolkata: In a setback to the Mamata Banerjee government, the Calcutta High Court on Friday directed that panchayat polls in 17 districts be held in three phases with the government fully compensating the shortfall in security forces to the satisfaction of the State Election Commission. Justice Biswanath Somadder rejected the government's arguments on all the contentious issues in its writ petition and directed that it inform the Commission of...
More »Fixing accountability for unlawful killings in India-Divya Trivedi
-The Hindu Hundred and nine civilian deaths occurred due to police firing in 2011, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Disproportionate use of force during demonstrations caused many deaths and at least 100 deaths were caused due to excessive use of force against demonstrators in Jammu and Kashmir in 2010. According to the NHRC, 2,560 deaths during encounters with police were reported between 1993 and 2008. Of this, 1,224 cases...
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