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Inside the SSP’s Office: Allegations of beatings, torture & police impunity against farmer leaders in Meerut, UP

Digvijay Bhati and Mohit Jatav allege they were beaten, tied up and humiliated inside police premises; the allegations come weeks after the Meerut police faced scrutiny over its crackdown on protests demanding justice for a Dalit woman

Only 12.31% women cops in Delhi Police!

In the background of sudden rise of cases of sexual assault on women, an answer in the Rajya Sabha from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) sheds light on the missing women in our police forces.

This is Not the Justice We Seek

We awoke today to the shocking news of the deaths of the four suspects in the murder and rape of the veterinarian last week. They were killed at 3 am purportedly while trying to ‘escape’ from the scene of crime, where they had been taken for a dead-of-night reconstruction of the crime of rape and murder at the scene of the offence.

Who killed the Hyderabad rape accused?

This is not the first time that guns and the bullet have been used to get at those labelled criminals. For Sajjanar, handling the high profile rape case of Hyderabad veterinary doctor, of the three ‘encounters’ of non-Maoists in Telangana in 10 years, two were led by the same cop

All four accused in Hyderabad vet rape & shot dead

Hyderabad/New Delhi: The extra judicial killing took place at...

GOI relents to Parliament pressure, will consider legal provisions against lynching

Sabrang India has been reporting on the questions raised by the Members of Parliament and the answers given by the ruling government in response. It has been observed that the question about the government’s intention on introducing a law against lynching has been asked 13 times in the Parliament until now.

Foot in the door? SC agrees to hear ADR’s plea seeking stay on disputable electoral bonds scheme

A bench led by the CJI SA Bobde has agreed to hear the plea by ADR in January

SC releases P Chidambaram on bail

He had spent 106 days in jail following arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case

Journalist threatened by police for reporting inaction in Sultanpur rape case: UP

The UP police have been intimidating him for exposing a rape case that they tried to conceal

K’taka HC questions on detention centres reveals govt’s plans to build 35 centres across state

This is probably the first case where the crucial issue of detention centres has been brought forth by Karnataka High Court. With the increasing furore around NRC (national Register of Citizens) and the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) which is yet to be tabled in the Parliament, the question of detention centres --which have their deplorable unaccountable trajectory in Assam-- has now a relevance in Karnataka.

Guwahati HC raps Assam govt, salaries of 221 Foreigner Tribunal members unpaid

Days ago, the non payment of salaries of members of Foreigners Tribunals (FTs), once again, invited the Guwahati HC’s censure. At a hearing held on Constitution Day, November 26, the court questioned the Assam govt’s treatment of these Tribunals, and demanded compliance by December 4

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