NCHRO pleads for the release on parole of Aged, Ill or Handicapped Prisoners New Delhi 26 March 2020 NCHRO welcomes the order issued by the Supreme Court of India to consider releasing the prisoners and…
‘Police paid hush money for lock-up death’
TIRUVARUR, Tamil Nadu: Crime one: lock-up death. Follow-up: a bid to hush it up. Relatives of a 40-year-old person say men in khaki paid them Rs 2.5 lakh to hush up his death in police…
Maoist under trial kills self in court
Durgapur, Sept. 5: A member of the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities, arrested for his suspected Maoist links, hanged himself in a Bankura court lock-up today.Thirty-year-old Shibu Pratihar, who was the president of the committee…
Malaysian Krishna disciple spent 20 months in Indian…
NEW DELHI, Aug 30 (By P.VIJIAN, Bernama) -- When Lim Soon Seng of Johor arrived in India in search of spiritual solace and to master ancient Indian Vedic healing, he di not have the slightest…
Hopes rise for jailed Briton in Rajasthan
Lawyers representing a Kent backpacker jailed in India for drug smuggling in "a travesty of justice" said he could be freed on appeal next month. Patrick Malluzzo, 32, from Dartford, has been in prison in…
Zimbabwean man died in Pune Jail
A Zimbabwean man died in an Indian prison where he was serving a jail term for a dangerous drug-related offence. Bernard Mtombeni Chapanga from Chiredzi died on July 7 this year in Pune, India where…
Indian prisons hold 70% undertrials
It is a shocking reflection on the flaws in our criminal justice system that less than one out of three people lodged in Indian jails is a convict. The vast majority of the prison population,…
NHRC orders compensation on custodial death
New Delhi, Aug. 22: Peruram should soon get Rs 5 lakh — it’s the price of his son Mohan Lal’s life.The 26-year-old, picked up from Amritsar by Jammu and Kashmir police in connection with a…
Around 40 custodial deaths in 3 years
CHENNAI: Rights outfits have identified the ‘pervasive regime of impunity’ as the single most important factor for widespread use of torture by the police in India. The men in khaki are rarely punished for their…