Police Atrocities
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1992 Vachathi atrocities case: Madras HC upholds conviction of all 215 officials
Policemen and forest department officers had ransacked homes of tribals, assaulted them and raped women during a purported raid against smugglers.
Scroll Staff
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Jharkhand: Six police officials booked after allegedly crushing infant to death
The case was registered after a postmortem report showed that the four-day-old child’s spleen was ruptured.
Scroll Staff
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Two Bengaluru police officials suspended for taking money from couple for being outside after 11 pm
They extorted Rs 1,000, saying there was a penalty for walking on the road late in the night.
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Trending
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Australian journalist leaves country amid visa troubles, says ‘too difficult to do my job in India’
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Over 17,400 citizens write to EC seeking action against PM Narendra Modi for hate speech
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CAA is a letdown, but Bengali Hindus in Assam are unlikely to ditch BJP
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Rights group PUCL seeks disqualification of PM Narendra Modi for hate speech in Rajasthan
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Fiction: Mahmud and Ayaz travel from Somnath to Kashmir as questions of citizenship arise
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Journalist, seven others stripped in Madhya Pradesh police station
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has called for action against the police involved in the matter. The police have ordered an inquiry.
Scroll Staff
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How three brave men put Mumbai ex-police commissioner in the dock on murder charges after ’93 riots
RD Tyagi, who died on October 15, was indicted by the official inquiry panel. But the government had to be pushed to prosecute him. He was later discharged.
Jyoti Punwani
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CAA protests: Investigate UP Police for using ‘excessive and unlawful force’, says human rights body
The International Commission of Jurists published a briefing paper on Wednesday detailing the alleged atrocities perpetrated by the police.
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Video
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Eco India: How can India deal with its mounting tyre waste?
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In Delhi, an unsettling pattern of custodial deaths, policemen on trial and rare convictions
Four months after Dalbir Singh’s death in a police station, an FIR has been lodged against policemen for culpable homicide.
Abhishek Dey
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‘Whenever there is protest, there is police firing’: Does Assam police have a crowd control problem?
Few states witness as many civilian killings by police as Assam, according to data collected by the National Crime Records Bureau.
Arunabh Saikia
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Muslim protestor dies in police firing in Assam’s Goalpara, video shows policeman shot to kill
A magisterial enquiry has been ordered, but the police insist they had no alternative.
Arunabh Saikia
The Reel
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In Cannes-bound ‘In Retreat’, a Ladakh that has rarely been seen before
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Chhattisgarh must identify and prosecute policemen who raped 16 women, demand activists
There is prima facie evidence to prove the crimes, said the National Human Rights Commission.
Raksha Kumar
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Bihar cops sentenced for killing students, but official data vastly underestimates police atrocities
The number of zeroes in the National Crime Records Bureau’s tables on human rights violations by the police make it seem like India is blissfully free of police atrocities.
Aarefa Johari