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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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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‘The Goat Life’ review: A protracted saga of suffering and survival
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How the high demand for coaching classes reflects India’s employment and economic distress
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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.
Scroll Staff
Video
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Watch: PTI posts video accusing male ANI reporter of assaulting and abusing its woman journalist
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Watch: Footballers give their jackets to young player escorts amidst heavy rain in New York City
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Caught on camera: Supermarket floor collapses, shopper falls through it
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‘Look at my wonderful costume’: Actor Anne Hathaway reacts to scenes from some of her popular movies
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Watch: Chef makes life-sized pencil and sharpener entirely from chocolate
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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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‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ trailer: Diljit Dosanjh plays the slain Punjabi singer in Imtiaz Ali’s biopic
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Premiere date announced for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Heeramandi’
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‘The Goat Life’ review: A protracted saga of suffering and survival
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The secret ingredient of Pratik Gandhi’s success: ‘Salt to taste’
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‘Bade Miyan Chote Miyan’ trailer: Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff team up for action thriller
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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