A special court in Mohali earlier this August declared 5 retired Punjab Police personnel guilty in the custodial deaths of 7 young men in staged encounters in 1993.
Ajith Kumar was allegedly tortured in custody after being detained in June over a theft at the temple where he worked. The incident occurred at a police station in Sivagangai district.
In Tamil Nadu, there is a pattern of violence in police custody which was highlighted in aftermath of custodial deaths of Jayaraj and Bennix (2020), Vignesh (2022), and now Ajith.
Citing the postmortem report, Kovai Sathyan said that there were cigarette burns on the temple guard’s body and ‘not a single organ was left untouched’.
B Ajith Kumar was pronounced dead at the Government Rajaji Hospital Saturday. FIR says he collapsed after an epileptic fit while trying to escape custody during a theft probe.
The victim, Ajithkumar, was earlier picked up by police in a theft case. His death sparked outrage in Tamil Nadu with political parties condemning the government.
After the 2017 rape-murder of a 16-year-old girl in Kotkhai, Suraj Singh, a Nepali labourer, was arrested. However, he died under mysterious circumstances while in police custody.
Probing 2017 Kotkhai rape and murder of 16-yr-old, IG Zaidi’s team arrested six men, including Suraj. But on night of 18 July 2017, the Nepali labourer died in custody.
Bombay HC convicted some MP Police personnel of culpable homicide in 2011. Hearing their appeals, SC bench differs on aspects including where the burden of proof lies & testimonies.
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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