कानून का बोलबाला
December 21, 2016
The High Court has also started hearing the appeal petitions on daily basis since last Monday, December 19
The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday allowed six victims of the 2002 Naroda Patia massacre to get case papers running into over 1.25 lakh pages free of cost from the registry of the court. Survivors backed by Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP),a Mumbai-based civil rights and legal aid group...
December 21, 2016
IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD
DISTRICT: AHMEDABAD
MISC. CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. OF 2016
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December 21, 2016
I-T department raids BJP leader Sushil Waswani for allegedly laundering huge sums of black money
The raid was simultaneously conducted at 12 different locations in Bhopal on Tuesday, December 20, that includes his house in the Bairagarh township and the three hotels he owns in various parts of Bhopal.
Sushil Vaswani, the BJP leader has been raided by the Income Tax department in Bhopal for...
December 20, 2016
While the Dalit upsurge in Una in Gujarat received widespread attention, an atrocity against Dalit youths being thrashed in Muzaffarpur, Bihar at the same time did not. It remained merely a Paswan versus Bhumihar confrontation. Dalits remain a differentiated group in Bihar, and have a long way to go before the community can rise above the imperatives of the here and now and assert as a...
December 20, 2016
Executions being used to Silence Dissidents;over 40 civilians executed in one day on terrorism charges in January alone, says Justice Crucified: The Death Penalty in Saudi Arabia, a report released by Repreive, a human rights group based in the United Kingdom.
Saudi Arabia will have executed at least 150 people by the end of 2016, for the second year in a row, according to research...
December 20, 2016
Police have killed hundreds of suspects in custody between 2009-2015, alleges rights group and the police often blame the deaths on suicide or illness.
Human Rights Watch(HRW)’s “Bound by Brotherhood”, India’s Failure to End Killings in Police Custody report released in New Delhi recently, documents habitual torture of undertrials and detainees by Indian police...
December 20, 2016
India’s Failure to End Killings in Police Custody
A Report by Human Rights Watch, USA
December 19, 2016
Babu Bajrangi, the terror behind the 2002 genocidal carnage, already granted temporary parole (bail) eight times since his conviction for conspiracy and murder on August 29, 2012 is pushing to be granted permanent bail from the Gujarat High Court tomorrow. The appeal in the case is being heard before the Gujarat High Court. 32 persons were convicted to life imprisonment in a historic verdict...
December 18, 2016
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PTI Report: In the wake of heightened tension and violence, parts of Manipur capital Imphal were today brought under indefinite curfew and mobile internet services were snapped at various places to prevent spread of rumours over an alleged attack on a church. The curfew was imposed this noon and covers Porompat and Sawombung subdivisions of Imphal East district,...
December 18, 2016
Radhika Vemula was manhandled by the Delhi Police in February 2016 even as then MHRD Minister, Smriti Irani made a speech dis-regarding
the pain of the Dalit students struggle in Parliament
Ambedkarite students of the University of Hyderabad (UoH) have in a detailed and strongly worded memorandum to the President of India, substantiated by 26 authenticated annexures, demanded that he...