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State cannot escape liability for custodial suicide: Delhi HC

Court awards ₹18.44 Lakh Compensation to Father of 19-Year-Old Who Died in Police Custody, Rules that every unnatural custodial death, even if classified as suicide, raises constitutional liability

Pehlu Khan Murder: Courts on trial, where is the substantive justice?

This is a question that Indian courts will have...

Letter to the Government of India from Harvard University in support of Shah Faesal

The alumni and faculty of Harvard University, US have...

Inferiority Complex Fuels Hindutvavadi Lust for Kashmiri Women

The obsession with capturing ‘fair-skinned Kashmiri women’ betrays infantilism...

We Walked, Walked, Walked and Talked to Kashmiris: Kavita Krishnan

Since the report of the four member, fact finding...

No one killed Pehlu Khan?

In a shocking turn of events in the Pehlu...

Whose Kashmir is it anyway?

In May 1998, Communalism Combat, a monthly magazine published...

How Green is my Valley?

In May 1998, Communalism Combat looked closely at the...

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