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International Women’s Day: Adivasi Women Pay the Price for Defending their Lands -Ritwika Mitra

-Newsclick.in Across states, Adivasi women have been at the frontline when it has come to stand up for their lands. However, gender-based violence against them continues unabated till today. New Delhi: Adivasi women in India continue to pay the price for being defenders of their lands, shows a report by advocacy group Survival International released on the occasion of International Women's Day. The report titled ‘Brutalized for resistance: The assault on Indigenous women...

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Extrajudicial Killings in UP Being Covered Up, Even NHRC Flouting Norms: Report -Jahnavi Sen

-TheWire.in A new report has studied 17 alleged Extrajudicial Killings in the state between March 2017 and March 2018, and found that no police officers have been held accountable in any of them. New Delhi: A new report by civil society organisations has highlighted how a culture of impunity is allegedly being pushed at all levels after ‘Extrajudicial Killings’ in Uttar Pradesh, with the police regularly being let off the hook for...

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The Rule of Law is indeed backsliding in India, says Justice Madan B Lokur

-Press release by Common Cause dated 19th April, 2021 New Delhi: There are silences and gaps in the law that the questionable elements in the police take advantage of and undermine the rule of law, said Justice Madan B Lokur, former Justice of the Supreme Court of India. Delivering the Keynote Address on ‘Is the Rule of Law Backsliding in India?’ at the launch of the Status of Policing in India Report...

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No country for procedural justice -Anuj Bhuwania

-The Hindu Due process is widely seen as a hindrance to rough and ready solutions promising substantive justice In early December 2019, the Supreme Court heard a petition on the extrajudicial killing of four men who had been arrested on charges of rape and murder of a veterinarian near Hyderabad. Following the incident, the Telangana government had assured the courts that it had already initiated an investigation and inquest into the killing....

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Petitions in Supreme Court seek probe into Hyderabad killings

-The Hindu Sajjanar, Jaya Bachchan, Swati Maliwal made party to pleas Two separate petitions were filed in the Supreme Court on Saturday seeking an independent investigation into the extrajudicial killing of four men accused of the rape and murder of a veterinarian in Hyderabad. The writ petition filed by Supreme Court advocate G.S. Mani sought a CBI or a special investigation team probe against Cyberbad Police Commissioner V.C. Sajjanar, who is a respondent...

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