Citizens for Justice and Peace
Thousands from city demand justice for Rohith
02-Feb-2016
• 2 Feb 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) • HT Correspondent htmetro@hindustantimes.com Activists, students, social workers want action against those responsible for Dalit scholar’s suicide MUMBAI: Thousands of students, political activists and social workers came out on the streets to protest against the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad. Sporting caps that read…
Acid attack on Mehsana girl
02-Feb-2016
The Mehsana SP said that the girl seems to have lost her right eye whereas, 95 per cent of her face has sustained burn injuries along with other body parts like chest, shoulder and legs. By: Express News Service | Ahmedabad | Updated: February 2, 2016 3:36 am The girl had refused the accused’s proposal…
Woman IPS alleges harassment
02-Feb-2016
Feb 02, 2016 | • PTI | • Thiruvananthapuram Two senior IPS officers in Kerala were Monday at the centre of a bitter row with a woman officer accusing her male colleague of harassing her for nearly three decades and also being behind a vigilance probe against her. Additional director-general of police R. Sreelekha in…
Vemula protests: Video shows cops’ brutal face
02-Feb-2016
Woman pulled by her hair, agitating students beaten up Aradhna Wal @aradhnaw New Delhi: A video of extreme police brutality did the rounds on Monday, forcing people to take note of the lathicharge on university students carrying out a protest for justice of Rohith Vemula, the Dalit student from Hyderabad who had committed suicide earlier…
Ban on Thangadh Dalits’ killing inquiry report
02-Feb-2016
Feb 02 2016 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) Vijaysinh Parmar Rajkot: The state government feels that the disclosure of an inquiry report into killing of three Dalit youths in police firing in Thangadh town of Surendranagar in 2012 may harm sovereignty and integrity of the country and incite hatred among sections of the society.…
There is no intolerance, says Najma Heptullah
02-Feb-2016
I took it up before the Cabinet and within a minute, the Cabinet increased it to Rs 3,000 crore. By: Express News Service | Jaipur | Published:February 2, 2016 12:57 am Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptullah Monday said there was “no intolerance” in the country and that the decisions taken by the Narendra Modi government…
60 Dalit students in Bihar threaten suicide
02-Feb-2016
Amarnath Tewary Patna, February 2, 2016 Sixty Dalit students from Bihar, who are studying engineering in Orissa, have threatened to commit suicide after the Bihar government allegedly stopped paying their stipends to the college, and the students were forced to leave the institution. All the 60 students had secured their admission in Rajdhani Engineering College,…
Kashimira Horror: Minor girl delivers baby, rapist held!
02-Feb-2016
Tuesday, February 02, 2016 By Suresh Golani In yet another horrifying case of sexual exploitation, an 18-year-old youth was arrested by the Kashimira police on charges of raping a minor girl under the false pretext of marriage. The crime came to light more than a year after the crime when the girl (now 16) delivered…
Police beat me, didn’t even let me sip water: DSSW student
01-Feb-2016
A number of other protesters, predominantly JNU and Delhi University students, also painted a grim picture of the police action against them during a demonstration over dalit student Rohith Vemula’s suicide on January 30. By: PTI | New Delhi | Published:February 1, 2016 10:11 pm A Delhi School of Social Work (DSSW) student, who was…
Rohith Vemula suicide: ‘Tamasha’ politics, says BJP after Cong sharpens attack
01-Feb-2016
“Rohith’s is not the first incident (suicide)…10 (such suicides) incidents have happened during Congress regime. Nobody had time. No Sonia, no Rahul and no Digvijay Singh, ” Naidu said. By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: February 1, 2016 12:39 am The war of words between the Congress and the BJP over the…