Nearly a dozen Punjab police officers assaulted reporter Satender Chauhan at the PCA Stadium on October 28.
Chauhan was covering a cricket match at the stadium when he saw a crowd of angry people who had allegedly bought tickets for the match but were not allowed to enter the stadium. According to these fans, Punjab […]
The Union Home Ministry has asked India’s Central Bureau of Investigation to reopen cases against Congress party leaders Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar, and Dharam Dass Shastri. In other cases against these politicians, however, the CBI has proven to be poor prosecutors, failing to prepare arguments and marshall evidence. Further:
The ministry, however, is yet to decide […]
There have been several interesting updates regarding cases implicating the systematic abuses committed by Punjab police during their counter-insurgency operations of 1984 to 1995.
This last month saw two blatant examples of impunity for perpetrators of abuses. The Punjab governor pardoned two police officers convicted of extrajudicial executions:
This is the first time ever that a Punjab […]
In May and June 2005, ENSAAF organized the Physicians for Human Rights and the Bellevue/NYU School of Medicine Program for Survivors of Torture to conduct a study of 127 families who survived the disappearance of a family member in Amritsar, Punjab. These cases draw from those pending before the National Human Rights Commission in the […]
On October 5, 2005, ENSAAF released its report Punjab Police: Fabricating Terrorism through Illegal Detention and Torture (June 2005 to August 2005). This report details human rights violations committed by Indian security forces in recent-militancy related arrests. From June 2005 to August 2005, Indian police claim to have arrested several dozen individuals intent on reviving […]
The Punjab High Court and the Punjab State Human Rights Commission (PSHRC) have come into conflict over alleged interference in cases of police harrassment.
On May 18, the court disposed of eight cases of police abuse, saying that the PSHRC had gone beyond its powers granted in the Human Rights Act and “interfered” in these […]
Chief Minister Raman Singh has announced that the Chhattisgarh state government will send a report on the 1984 pogroms to the central government:
“I have
asked district collectors to collect records about families affected in
riots after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated. Based on
these, the state will send a report to New Delhi about the losses and
number […]
The United Nations has adopted an international treaty against forced disappearances, called the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances. Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists, the International Federation of Human Rights, and Human Rights Watch commended the great step forward in the fight against forced disappearances, and called on […]
The United Nations has adopted an international treaty against forced disappearances, called the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances. Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists, the International Federation of Human Rights, and Human Rights Watch said that this a great step forward in the fight against forced disappearances, and […]