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Plea for judicial probe in custodial death cases

The HinduPublished on 24 January 2020 SC seeks government’s response The Supreme Court on Friday asked the government to respond to a petition seeking implementation of Section 176(1A) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which provides for mandatory judicial inquiry in cases of death, disappearance or rape in police and judicial custody. A Bench led […]

A case for truth, The Telegraph India

Media oppression is a shifting landscape By Sevanti Ninan, The Telegraph India 29 June 2020 For some years now, the growing challenge to journalism has come from the increasing use of predictable laws. These are the Sections relating to sedition and criminal defamation in the Indian Penal Code and, until it was struck down in […]

Prime Time, Oct 1, 2018 | UP Police Given Free Hand to Kill Anyone?

NDTV Published on Oct 1, 2018 On Prime Time, we ask whether the police personnel of Uttar Pradesh think they have been given a free hand to kill anyone without being questioned. Can the police take law into their own hands? An employee of Apple in Lucknow, Vivek Tiwari was allegedly shot dead by the […]