Female foeticide and India’s bride bazaar: The case of Haryana

89% of people excluded from NRC suffering from extreme anxiety: Survey

Nagaland Post 24 August 2019 Around 89% of the more than 41 lakh people left out of the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) list have been suffering from acute mental torture. According to a survey conducted by the National Campaign Against Torture (NCAT), the fear of being marked as a foreigner and its consequences […]

Indian police use violence as a shortcut to justice. It’s the poorest who bear the scars, CNN News

CNN News / PDF link 03 December 2020 By Mohit Rao Bengaluru, India (CNN) It was minutes into India’s Independence Day when police stormed a slum in the western state of Gujarat where Hira Bajania, 65, was sleeping. In the black of night, he was dragged from his home, taken to a nearby police station and […]

60% custodial deaths within 24 hrs of arrest; most in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Business Standard

Business Standard 26 October 2020 By Raja Bagga | IndiaSpend Just three states–Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat–accounted for almost half of deaths in police custody over the past 10 years On June 19, 2020, traders P Jayaraj and his son J Bennicks were arrested and detained in Sathankulam police station in southern Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi […]