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.
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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.
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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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Expelled BJP Minority Morcha leader Usman Ghani arrested in Rajasthan
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Canada: Amid anti-immigration rhetoric, curbing international students is a knee-jerk reaction
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By mixing Carnatic and Hindustani, Mysore’s kings helped create a unique body of music
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‘Be freed from what holds you back’: Poems by Buddhist women from the Murty Classical Library
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As protests against Gaza genocide rock US campuses, officials are falling into trap set by the Right
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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.
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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: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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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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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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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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Aditi Rao Hydari on playing diverse characters: ‘I want the audience to take me home with them’
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The story of India’s unique ‘Milk Revolution’ is going to the Cannes Film Festival
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The story behind the ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ title track: ‘Just write very simple poetry’
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‘Juna Furniture’ review: A simplistic crusade against the neglect of senior citizens
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‘Late Night with the Devil’ review: A deft satire on the price of success
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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