In a shocking incident, an old parents died of shock over the arrest and remand of their two sons during the recent riots in Telangana’s Bhanisa town. Unable to overcome the shock after seeing his sons handcuffed, 73-year-old Abdul Ahad Banarsi died. A couple of hours later, his wife Ahmedi Begum (65) suffered cardiac arrest […]
Category: Crime & Justice
Why Always ‘Tampered Evidences’ And ‘Delayed Forensic Reports’ Leading Toward Rape Convictions?
The delayed forensic reports and tampered evidences in rape convictions are common procedure in Indian investigations. How do rapes get investigated in our country? Is there a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for collecting evidence? Where does it all begin to unravel? These questions are always gives us pain to think. Every time a gruesome rape […]
The ‘Bare Truths’ And ‘False Claims’ Behind ‘CAA’s Link With NRC-NPR’
There are ten great claims, which can easily be proved baseless. By the time the reader verifies the claim, the untruth travels long and their IT or social media managers, print and electronic media agents and PR teams will make it viral. Some claims made by Constitutional office holders and the verified truths that prove […]
How Rohith Vemula’s Mother Radhika Transformed Her Grief Into Resistance In Telangana?
Four years after her son’s death, as students across the country rise up once more, Radhika Vemula has become a symbol of inspiration and resistance. On 23 January 2016, Radhika Vemula was at Velivada, a bustling protest spot in University of Hyderabad. A week ago, her son Rohith Vemula had died by suicide after he […]
Bhainsa Town Grips In Uneasy Calm After High-Voltage Communal Clash In Telangana
An uneasy calm prevails around Bhainsa town in Telangana as the streets remain largely empty, barring the presence of police and other security personnel. Locals have grouped at the corners of streets or by ‘chabutras’ and speak in hushed tones. It has been less than 24 hours, since clashes broke out in the town over […]
Why Police Trying To Collect ‘Citizens Data’ While ‘Cordon Search Operations’ In Hyderabad?
The police have cordoned off certain Muslim areas close to Charminar in Hyderabad and have begun the operations to go to every house and demand to see documents including Aadhaar cards and vehicle registration documents. They were asking details about children, their schools and whether they owned the houses they were staying in or they […]
How ‘Practicing Religion’ On ‘Public Places’ Can Violate The Law?
In India, both the freedom to practice religion and the right against noise pollution are protected by the Constitution, and no Indian citizen are allowed to violate this law. While traveling to my hometown in July, I got stuck in a massive traffic jam caused by kanwariya — the devotees of the god Shiva. Not […]
Why Telangana Govt Keeps Mum Over MHA’s ‘Detention Centre’ Orders?
It is evident that BJP government is quite keen to construct a detention centre in Hyderabad and in Telangana state as a part of infiltration and illegal immigrants flow is high since last decade. As the time flows, the pressure from the Centre grows on state government. At last, when a letter from the ministry […]
‘Custodial Killings’ Are An Alibi For Failure Of Governance In Telangana
The early morning execution of four rape suspects in Hyderabad on the 6th of December this year was actually a custodial killing, and it was bad enough; what was worse, however, was the jubilatory response to it. When the President of a constitutional democracy publicly asserts that child sex offenders should not be allowed a […]
Why All ‘Rape Victims’ Demanding ‘Prompt Justice’ After #Disha Rape Case Killing In Telangana?
The controversial ‘encounter’ killing of the four accused in the ‘Disha’ rape and murder case in Hyderabad has brought to the fore the divisions in Telangana along caste and class lines. Days after the young Hyderabad vet’s alleged rapist-killers were shot dead by the Cyberabad police when they tried to ‘flee’, families of other such […]