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.

Scroll Staff

· Jan 16, 2020 · 11:48 am

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

· Jul 10, 2018 · 09:00 am

‘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

· Jan 17, 2018 · 09:00 am

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

· Jul 03, 2017 · 06:30 am

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

· Jan 08, 2017 · 12:30 pm

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

· Jun 26, 2014 · 07:47 am