Citizens for Justice and Peace
Uproar over video of Delhi police and others beating protesters near RSS office
02-Feb-2016
By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: February 2, 2016 3:35 am The video, shot on January 30, shows police officers and men in plain clothes beating protesters at Jhandewalan. A video that shows Delhi Police officers beating students, who were protesting outside the RSS headquarters in Jhandewalan over Dalit research scholar Rohith…
Vested interests trying to show Rohith was not Dalit: Karnataka CM
02-Feb-2016
In a letter to Vemula’s mother Radhika, Siddaramaiah expressed regret that the university campus has become a “place for unscrupulous elements to achieve their politically motivated, caste-based agenda.” By: PTI | New Delhi | Updated: February 2, 2016 6:40 pm Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has condemned the attempts by “vested interests” for projecting the Hyderabad…
Kerala: Four held in connection with brutal assault of youth
02-Feb-2016
The victim had reportedly made certain remarks against the father of one of the four accused which infuriated them. Thiruvananthapuram | Published:February 2, 2016 8:35 pm A day after the video of a youth being brutally attacked in broad daylight went viral, four persons were arrested today by a special police team in connection with…
U.P. police destroyed papers on massacre
02-Feb-2016
Mohammad Ali Meerut, February 2, 2016 Documents on PAC deployment were ‘weeded out’. The Uttar Pradesh police destroyed documents that could have helped to prove the involvement of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) personnel in the Hashimpura massacre of 1987, even while the trial is still pending, it has now emerged. Last year, a Delhi…
Minor rape victim raped again in Jamshedpur hospital, one held
02-Feb-2016
Written by Prashant Pandey | Jamshedpur | Updated: February 2, 2016 3:07 am The minor was allegedly raped by a private security guard on duty in the hospital on Sunday, police said. Five days after she was raped near her home in Parsudih area of Jamshedpur and hospitalised, a 14-year-old was raped again on Sunday…
Couple tortures girl, held
02-Feb-2016
Feb 02, 2016 – Ashita Dadheech | • mumbai They allegedly forced 8-year-old minor to do housework The Kurar police has nabbed a man and his wife for allegedly torturing an eight-year-old girl, who is the man’s niece, who was staying with them since her mother’s death. Prahlad Vishwakarma (39) and his wife Laxmidevi (35)…
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…
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…
BJP leader expelled for ‘cow slaughter’
01-Feb-2016
PTI Bhopal, February 1, 2016 The Madhya Pradesh BJP has expelled Anwar Mev, former vice-president of its minority cell in Tonkkhurd Mandal in Dewas district, days after he was charged with slaughtering a cow at his house and arrested. “We have expelled Mev from the party,” State BJP spokesman Hitesh Bajpai said. Mr. Mev and…
Rohith Vemula’s suicide: This is what Carl Sagan’s wife had to say about his death
01-Feb-2016
By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Published:February 1, 2016 11:14 am “I always wanted to be a writer. A writer of science, like Carl Sagan. I loved Science, Stars, Nature, but then I loved people without knowing that people have long since divorced from nature. Our feelings are second handed. Our love is…