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Some Questions for the Maharashtra ATS Chief: JTSA PDF Print E-mail
StateViolations

25 Jan. 2012

The Maharashtra ATS claims to have cracked the 13/7 blasts case. Its chief has revealed in a press conference that Indian Mujahideen was behind the Mumbai blasts. And yet, the Ministry of Home Affairs remains far from impressed—indeed, it appears rather irritated. And the press, also unusually, has been circumspect about his revelations. The ATS Chief says that he did not want to call a press conference. But the rumours about Naquee’s IB links were threatening the credibility of the ATS. Such were his compulsions when he launched into a monologue about the ‘breakthrough’ his team—under his guidance of course—had achieved.

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To end BSF violence what more does it require? PDF Print E-mail
StateViolations

 

19 Jan  2012

A Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and its partner organisation, the Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), have been documenting and reporting cases of extreme forms of brutality committed by the Border Security Force (BSF) stationed along the Indo-Bangladesh border in West Bengal state. The latest is a video of extreme torture by the BSF of a civilian that reportedly happened on 16 January 2012. The video shows blood-chilling torture, committed by the BSF. The incident is a shame and the brutality documented alarming, suggesting that the officers require psychiatric assistance, a condition that challenges their very legitimacy to guard the country's border.

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US officials pushed us for English in madrasas, says Godhra cleric PDF Print E-mail
ThisIndia

8 Jan 2012

Ahmedabad : The US embassy in New Delhi invited around 30 Muslim clerics, mainly from northern and western Indian states, in the first week of this month and discussed with them the state of madrasa education in the country.

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Minority groups question secular credentials PDF Print E-mail
ThisIndia

8 Jan 2012
Mumbai : A day after Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal met Muslim community leaders here seeking their support and trying to dispel the impression of the movement’s “RSS links”, Muslim and Catholic groups questioned their secular credentials and tactics.

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Malegaon case: Stay against interrogation of Purohit extended PDF Print E-mail
Judiciary

8 Jan 2012
The Supreme Court on Wednesday extended its order restraining the National Investigation Agency not to interrogate 2008 Malegaon blast accused Lt. Col. Shrikant Prasad Purohit and Sudhakar Dhar Dwivedi till further direction. A bench of justices H.L. Dattu and C.K. Prasad extended the stay of the Bombay High Court order allowing the agency to interrogate him and also impleaded the NIA on the bail plea of Lt. Col. Purohit.

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