User: avyakto Topic: Torture
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Seven booked for dowry demand (Cached) 6.9.2010 TOI: All Headlines
Seven booked for dowry demand
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Seven booked for dowry demand (Cached) 6.9.2010 TOI: All Headlines
Seven booked for dowry demand
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Dirty looking stones 3.9.2010 HardNews
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Spot-Fixing: Scotland Yard to Quiz Tainted Trio on Friday (Cached) 3.9.2010 Outlook Wires
The three Pakistani cricketers at the centre of spot-fixing allegations will be questioned by the Scotland Yard detectives on Friday.
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2 SIs, five cops suspended for assault on law student (Cached) 2.9.2010 Deccan Chronicle: Chennai

Sept. 1: Seven policemen, including two sub-inspectors, were placed under suspension on Wednesday in connection with the alleged torture of a law college student at the Thirukazhukundram police station on August 17. The case was transferred to CB-CID for further investigation on Wednesday.

Ashok Kumar, a student of Government Ambedkar Law College, Chennai, later allegedly attempted to hang hims

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Recommendations for the Prevention of Torture Bill 30.8.2010 The South Asian
ACHR presents recommendations on a stronger bill for prevention of torture. Review article on ACHR website.
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CRPF jawan guns down relative, two children 30.8.2010 Deccan Herald: State
CRPF jawan guns down relative, two children
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Bid to widen harmony bill (Cached) 29.8.2010 Telegraph: Nation
New Delhi, Aug. 28: The National Advisory Council wants to tweak the name of a proposed law to tackle communal violence and add the word "sectarian" to widen its scope.
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New mom loses an eye over dowry torture (Cached) 29.8.2010 Hindustan Times: News
A 23-year-old woman, who gave birth to a girl 10 days ago, lost vision in one eye after being allegedly attacked by her husband and in-laws for dowry.
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Last chance to fix flawed torture Bill 26.8.2010 Hindu: Home
The draft law excludes many scenarios and forms of torture rampant in India. The Rajya Sabha must insist on amendments.
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On ragging 25.8.2010 Hindu: Letters
Ragging is common in our educational institutions. It is no longer fun as it has assumed the form of human rights violation. But it is not treated with the seriousness it deserves. The reali...
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Thrashed, humiliated, detained all for demanding salary 24.8.2010 Mid-Day: Delhi
Cops send private firm employee to lock up for 48 hours without registering any FIR; beat him up mercilessly at the behest of employer On a day when the Delhi Assembly was discussing law and order in the city, a horrific case of police atrocity Cops or criminals? Subhash after being released by the cops at the Govindpuri police station. After two days of torture he could barely walk. Pic/mid day has surfaced. Three policemen attached to the Govindpuri police station in south Delhi wrote a new chapter in police atrocities by beating and detaining a 23-year-old private firm employee of the same area allegedly at the instance of his employer who purportedly paid them for the heinous act. Subhash used to work in a button ...
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Human rights assessment scrapped 22.8.2010 The Guardian -- Front Page
NGOs concerned that ministers are 'blindly' pursuing commercial interests in countries where atrocities are taking place The coalition government is plunged into a major row today over its commitment to human rights amid claims that it will scrap the Foreign Office's landmark annual assessment of abuses across the world. The Observer has learned that civil servants have been told to stop working on the next edition of the FCO Annual Report on Human Rights, which highlights incidents of torture and oppression, monitors use of the death penalty and aims to expose the illegal arms trade. The report also acts as a guide to MPs and businesses over which countries it is ethical to trade with. The former Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Menzies ...
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‘Tortured’ law student in Apollo ICU 20.8.2010 NIE: Chennai
CHENNAI: The student of Dr Ambedkar Government Law College, Ashok Kumar, whose alleged torture at the Thirukazhukundram police sta..
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Why brutal Arab security forces offer hope | Nesrine Malik 18.8.2010 The Guardian -- World Latest
Security forces in the Arab world, and the glorified thugs they attract, do not prove the might of regimes, but their weakness The Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) is carrying out "a brutal campaign of arbitrary detentions, torture and mental and physical intimidation against opponents and critics of the government", Amnesty International said in a report last month. For anyone who imagines that the amn (security forces) – who were a ubiquitous part of life in Khartoum in the years after the 1989 military coup – have been scaled down now that the government has established itself more firmly, this report, with its harrowing details of kidnappings and incarcerations in "ghost houses", comes as a stark reminder that ...
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Encounter menace (Cached) 11.8.2010 Frontline
Fake encounter killings and illegal detention of innocent people are more common in some States than in others for a variety of reasons.
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Women now aware, willing to register complaints (Cached) 11.8.2010 TOI: Bangalore Times
After spending almost six months in a hospital ICU battling for life, Seema, 22, recently died of multiple organ failure.
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No conviction for mere demand of dowry: SC (Cached) 6.8.2010 Central Chronicle
No conviction for mere demand of dowry: SC
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No conviction for mere demand of dowry: SC (Cached) 6.8.2010 The Pioneer
No conviction for mere demand of dowry: SC
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No conviction for mere demand of dowry, says SC! (Cached) 6.8.2010 Zee News : India National
The SC has ruled that a person cannot be convicted for merely demanding dowry.
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