Human Rights
Hindutva’s top encounter specialist dismissed
In a major development, the Maharashtra government dismissed Mumbai’s top police encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma, the crooked brahmin IPS officer from service early Sunday, according to a police official.
Sharma was served the dismissal order at his residence at 1 am on Sunday.
He has been accused of having links with the underworld, corruption and amassing huge [...]
Fresh probe into India politician
A court in the Indian capital Delhi has ordered a fresh investigation into the alleged role of a former central minister in anti-Sikh riots of 1984.
The court directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe the alleged role of Jagdish Tytler, a month after a case against him was closed.
However, a witness said recently he [...]
An open letter to Malaysian Indians
To begin with, this picture is not from Malaysia. It is from Chennai, the capital city of southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. According to flickr, this photo is part of their most interesting 50 sets. It says a lot about the pain, and struggle of Dalit community in India, above all in Tamil Nadu.
Died [...]
150 million rich produced 4.5 times more carbon emissions than the 800 million poor Indians
Greenpeace calls for pollution tax on India’s 150 million rich
France24.com, 13 Nov 2007
India’s wealthy consumers, who make up a fraction of its 1.1 billion population, are fuelling the country’s greenhouse gas emissions and should be required to pay extra tax, an environmental watchdog said on Tuesday.
Some 150 million Indians, splurging on luxury goods and air [...]
Muslims convicts in India is 19.1%, while the number of undertrials is 22.5%
Counter View: A Few Myths, Fewer Facts about Muslims
When Zakir Hussain was sentenced to death by hanging for his part in planting the bombs during the “Bombay Blasts” of 1993, he shouted, “If a Hindu does something, a commission is set up. But if a Muslim does something, he is hanged.” This was in reference [...]
21.9 million disabled in India, 2.13 % of the total population
Enabling the 21.9 million disabled persons in India
With India signing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, laws pertaining to the disabled are likely to undergo a dramatic change. V. Kumara Swamy reports
A fortnight ago, NGO activist Rajiv Ranjan was denied permission to board a flight from Chennai to New Delhi [...]
54 % Indians back UN probe on Human rights abuses in India
Majority of Indians are likely to support an investigation by United Nations on human rights violations in india, a survey result released by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) of Philippines said Monday. 54 % Indians welcomed UN probe on Human rights abuses in their own country while only 29 % opposed to such an action.
Globally, [...]
The false pride of the National Human Rights Commission of India
Indians take pride in several issues ranging from democracy to unity in diversity. Most of this “pride speech” is often by India’s middle class and neo-rich that are sometimes completely disconnected from reality. The government and its various agencies often reflect similar pride.
The government of India has spared no venue to boast about itself whenever [...]
Merits of Mandal report
In view of the confusion created by Mandal II, the Supreme Court has asked the government to clarify two things: One, what is the basis for determining who belongs to an OBC category; and two, the rationale behind 27 per cent reservation for OBCs. These two points need to be immediately cleared.
OBCs belong to the [...]
Amnesty International’ Full Report on India 2007
Amnesty International Press Release, May 25, 2007,
Perpetrators of past human rights violations continued to enjoy impunity. Concerns grew over protection of economic, social and cultural rights of already marginalized communities. Human rights violations were reported in several states where security legislation was used to facilitate arbitrary detention and torture. A new anti-terror law, in place [...]
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