कानून का बोलबाला
November 2, 2016
Condemning the state’s role in the pandemonium created in Kashmir post the killing of Hizbul Mujahidin commander Burhan Wani, several activists, academicians, journalists and filmmakers call for an end to the violence in the Valley.
In a statement endorsed by 172 individuals and 14 organisations, attention has been called to the several issues including the gagging of media, mangling...
November 1, 2016
According to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) Prison Statistics 2015, over 55 per cent of undertrials across the country are either Muslims, Dalits or tribals. This number is not proportion with their combined representation in the census, which is close to 39 per cent. Interestingly, combined percentage of the convicts from these communities is 50.4 per cent – lower than the...
November 1, 2016
The SIMI jailbreak in Bhopal and the subsequent encounter must go through inquiries insulated from political pressures on either side.
Image: Rajeev Gupta/AFP
On Monday morning, news broke that eight activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India had broken out of the Bhopal Central Jail, shimmying down the prison walls using bed sheets and killing a head constable....
November 1, 2016
8 सिमी कार्यकर्ताओं को मारे जाने के तरीके पर अब तरह-तरह के सवाल उठने शुरू हो गए है। पुलिस ने ये एनकाउंटर किस प्रकार से किया इस पर पुलिस ने पूरी तरह से बयान जारी नहीं किए है।
मध्य प्रदेश के वरिष्ठ पत्रकार प्रवीन दुबे एनकाउंटर के वक्त मौके पर मौजूद थे। उन्होनें पुलिस के इस एनकाउंटर को लेकर मुख्यमंत्री शिवराज सिंह चैहान से कुछ वाजिब सवाल किए है। फेसबुक पर लिखी उनकी पोस्ट वायरल हो गयी है...
November 1, 2016
मध्य प्रदेश पुलिस द्वारा 8 सिमी सदस्यों को मारे जाने को लेकर सरकार लामबंद नज़र आ रही है। जहां एक और मध्य प्रदेश की जेल मंत्री कह रही है कि सिमी के लोगों को मार गिराने के लिए हमारी तारीफ होनी चाहिए।
वहीं दूसरी और सरकार में केंद्रीय मंत्री जितेंद्र सिंह ने कहा कि भोपाल जेल से भागे 8 सिमी कार्यकर्ताओं के कथित एनकाउंटर से देश का मनोबल बढ़ेगा और जनता में विश्वास बढ़ेगा कि ‘हम सुरक्षित हैं।...
November 1, 2016
A series of communal incidents in Madhya Pradesh has raised the question about the security of Muslims in the state.
Image: Hindustan Times
A series of communal incidents in Madhya Pradesh has raised the question about the security of Muslims in the state. In all these incidents Muslims were the main targets.
According to the findings of a team of All India Secular Forum, more than 40...
November 1, 2016
Monday’s gruesome encounter of eight Muslim undertrials in Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s Madhya Pradesh has sent social media users into utter frenzy with an overwhelming majority condemning the BJP government for extra-judicial killings.
The eight men, alleged SIMI members, were accused of having fled the jail by allegedly killing a guard. Within hours of their reported escape, they...
October 31, 2016
Police have filed two cases against more than 1,000 people over Sunday’s attack on temples and homes of the Hindu community in Nasirnagar of Brahmanbaria
An unruly mob of hundreds of people armed with locally-made weapons demolished at least 10 temples to the ground along with vandalising hundreds of houses of the Hindu community at Brahminbaria‘s Nasirnagar upazila on Sunday...
October 31, 2016
The Indian political leadership and a section of the intelligentsia have been hysterical over the death of 19 soldiers in a recent attack on an army base in Kashmir. The September 18 attack that also left four militants dead has been blamed on Pakistan-based terror groups. The Indian government continues to claim that the insurgents fighting for the right to self-determination in Kashmir are...
October 31, 2016
As Sikhs were being massacred in Delhi after Indira Gandhi’s assassination, Zail Singh stood by helplessly, Home Minister Narasimha Rao played cool.
On November 1, 1992, The Pioneer newspaper, then edited by the legendary Vinod Mehta, published a story that Amit Prakash and this reporter had stitched together. Titled, 1984: The Price of Inaction Revisited, we based our story on...