Citizens for Justice and Peace
HC ups punishment to life term for spurned youth who flung acid on girl
23-Feb-2016
Feb 23 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Shibu Thomas Mumbai Noting with alarm the rising trend of young girls being attacked with acid, the Bombay high court has enhanced the punishment of a Pune youth who assailed a BPO employee for rejecting his marriage proposal. A division bench of Justices Vijaya Kapse-Tahilramani and…
Rohith Vemula march: Two of six students Dalit, one from BPL family
23-Feb-2016
The families of the two Dalit students, Rama Naga and Anant Prakash Narayan, say they cannot even afford to travel to Delhi to meet their children. By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: February 23, 2016 7:31 am There is more than one reason why the Rohith Vemula march tomorrow finds an echo…
5 students won’t surrender, JNU rallies to their support
23-Feb-2016
Feb 23, 2016 – SANJAY KAW | • New Delhi Amid standoff, police waits outside campus The JNU campus stood firm on Monday behind all five students, charged in the sedition case, who had resurfaced at the campus on Sunday night. JNU students and teachers appealed to vice-chancellor M. Jagdish Kumar to take a firm…
HC ups punishment to life term for spurned youth who flung acid on girl
23-Feb-2016
Feb 23 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Shibu Thomas Mumbai Noting with alarm the rising trend of young girls being attacked with acid, the Bombay high court has enhanced the punishment of a Pune youth who assailed a BPO employee for rejecting his marriage proposal. A division bench of Justices Vijaya Kapse-Tahilramani and…
JNU row: Lawyers ‘admit’ to beating up Kanhaiya for 3 hrs till he wet his pants
23-Feb-2016
Yashpal Singh said, “We thrashed all journalists and JNU professors. If you live in the country, you will have to talk about the country. Police was also supporting us fully and they told us they were in uniform, that’s why they (too) were not thrashing him.” By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Published:February…
Guideline flout finger at JNU Basant Mohanty
23-Feb-2016
New Delhi, Feb. 22: A Dalit scholar whom Hyderabad Central University had punished along with Rohith Vemula today accused Jawaharlal Nehru University of flouting University Grants Commission guidelines by allowing the police to crack down on its students. “The guidelines said that students were entitled to freedom of expression, and that the institutions must allow…
Bhopal: NSA invoked against three for ‘transporting beef’
23-Feb-2016
Salim Mohammed, Irfan Qureshi and Danish Sharif were arrested in Vidisha town under the state’s anti-cow slaughter law after they were allegedly found carrying beef on February 11. Written by Milind Ghatwai | Bhopal | Published:February 23, 2016 3:46 am Three men, all in their twenties, were booked under the National Security Act (NSA) in…
JNU row: Lawyers ‘admit’ to beating up Kanhaiya for 3 hrs till he wet his pants
23-Feb-2016
Yashpal Singh said, “We thrashed all journalists and JNU professors. If you live in the country, you will have to talk about the country. Police was also supporting us fully and they told us they were in uniform, that’s why they (too) were not thrashing him.” By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Published:February…
Guideline flout finger at JNU Basant Mohanty
23-Feb-2016
New Delhi, Feb. 22: A Dalit scholar whom Hyderabad Central University had punished along with Rohith Vemula today accused Jawaharlal Nehru University of flouting University Grants Commission guidelines by allowing the police to crack down on its students. “The guidelines said that students were entitled to freedom of expression, and that the institutions must allow…
Bhopal: NSA invoked against three for ‘transporting beef’
23-Feb-2016
Salim Mohammed, Irfan Qureshi and Danish Sharif were arrested in Vidisha town under the state’s anti-cow slaughter law after they were allegedly found carrying beef on February 11. Written by Milind Ghatwai | Bhopal | Published:February 23, 2016 3:46 am Three men, all in their twenties, were booked under the National Security Act (NSA) in…