In ‘From the Trenches’, lawyer and Congress politician Abhishek Manu Singhvi writes about SC’s decision in D.K. Basu v. State of West Bengal case on police safeguards.
India’s policymakers need to ensure that labourers, and milk and newspaper delivery workers, do not have to sacrifice food just to keep a roof over their heads.
In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.
New Delhi: India’s air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 1,000 drones and missiles launched by Pakistan on 9 May during Op Sindoor, Prime Minister...
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
This is a self congratulatory article that paints a totally one sided picture. He paints a picture of somebody being arrested, handcuffed, taken to a basement, tortured and forced to confess. Another more common picture is a criminal being arrested, released on bail and then the case goes into limbo for 20 years. By the time the case is heard, the witnesses are missing or dead, the investigators have retired and the criminal walks free. This is the reality that is repeated over and over. Even if somebody is convicted, endless appeals each lasting years ensure that nobody is ever punished. It is people like this author, who have over time, destroyed the legal system. The system we have today is a grotesque representation of a justice system where criminals are never punished, where the police have been handcuffed, justice is never delivered, and lawyers congratulate themselves for having created it.
Congress inpower for70years could not bring police reforms has no right to talk on such issues of human rights Let themselves go through the hell then they will realise.
This is a self congratulatory article that paints a totally one sided picture. He paints a picture of somebody being arrested, handcuffed, taken to a basement, tortured and forced to confess. Another more common picture is a criminal being arrested, released on bail and then the case goes into limbo for 20 years. By the time the case is heard, the witnesses are missing or dead, the investigators have retired and the criminal walks free. This is the reality that is repeated over and over. Even if somebody is convicted, endless appeals each lasting years ensure that nobody is ever punished. It is people like this author, who have over time, destroyed the legal system. The system we have today is a grotesque representation of a justice system where criminals are never punished, where the police have been handcuffed, justice is never delivered, and lawyers congratulate themselves for having created it.
Congress inpower for70years could not bring police reforms has no right to talk on such issues of human rights Let themselves go through the hell then they will realise.
Moot point is who will watch politicians.