That’s what The Diary of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala wants. That and Justice for ND Tiwari, Paneerselvam, Dinakaran..
Me: OK, I think …..I have a solution.
DINAKARAN: WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT !!! SIRJI! PLEASE DON’T FORGET ABOUT ME.
I’m the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court and was due for promotion to become a Supreme Court Judge.
But the media [...]
Archive for the 'Law and order' Category
Justice for Rathore
Published by January 13th, 2010 in Activism, Corruption, Culture, Development, Government, India and Law and order. 0 CommentsBant Singh’s struggle for justice
Published by December 8th, 2009 in Caste, Justice, Law and order, Violence and Women. 2 Comments“What would you do, if you were a lower caste Dalit farmer living in Punjab and your minor daughter was raped by a group of influential upper-caste men?”. Find out more about Bant Singh and the ‘retributions’ for his standing up for justice:
A phone call to “retrieve his body” actually found him barely alive but [...]
The jury bench determines the death penalty
Published by December 4th, 2009 in Justice, Law and order and Society. 1 CommentSwaroop thinks “Revenge cannot justify our criminal punishments anymore, surely”:
There remains, today, no justification for the death penalty. We’re talking of a state taking someone’s life – something it theoretically, politically, morally has no right to do. As pure retribution, the death penalty is uncivilised and retrograde; studies have shown that its claims as a [...]
Tarun asks the question, do we Indians remember Manipur?
Manipur, a small state tucked in India’s north-east, a state which I regret to say India and Indians forgot. That is why state which is going through turbulence since July because of a fake encountered which was carried out by the forces there and fakeness of which [...]
Rape convictions in India and Anand Jon
Published by September 4th, 2009 in India, Law and order and Women. 1 CommentNivedita empathises with Anand Jon’s wish to be tried in India.
A rape convict cleared the civil service exam earlier this year while serving his sentence, and was deemed by the Delhi High Court to have “redeemed himself in jail”, his incarceration of five years having met “the ends of justice”. His victim, who committed suicide, [...]
How to claim an insurance
Published by June 29th, 2009 in Corruption, Development, Human Rights, India, Justice and Law and order. 2 CommentsAfter filing for an RTI, now it’s compensation or insurance claim. Ajay at
कोर्ट कचहरी explains us the details needed to claim for a compensation in an accident case.
ऐसे दावों में पंचाट पीड़ित व्यक्ति को चार विभिन्न मदों में भुगतान करने का आदेश प्रतिवादी को देती है. इलाज, यात्रा भत्ता, पोषाहार देतु तथा प्रभावित दिवसों में हुए आय का नुकसान .इसलिए पीड़ित व्यक्ति को चाहिए वो इलाज से सम्बंधित प्रत्येक कागज़ .दवाइयों की रसीद,अस्पताल आने जाने,रहने में लगे खर्चे की रसीदें तथा तथा पोषाहार हेतु लिए गए विशेष भोज्य पदार्थों पर हुए खर्च का सारा ब्यौरा संभाल कर रखे एवं गवाही के समय अदालत में उपस्थित करे.
The Assam Agitation: A Subjective History
Published by May 6th, 2009 in Children, History, Human Rights, India, Language, Law and order, North East, Politics, Prejudice, Religion, Spotlight Series, Terrorism, Travel, Violence and Women. 1 Comment[ This is Essay No. 37 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
The Assam Agitation: A Subjective History
by Nitoo Das
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But then, I believe, all histories are subjective.
I was seven when the Assam Agitation started in 1979. I was ‘promoted’ to the next class without a final examination. I do not remember [...]
Literate city
Published by April 22nd, 2009 in Books, Culture, Law and order, Theory and Violence. 0 CommentsAn interesting argument at Rama’s blog- Rama’s friends react to a recent Amartya Sen theory that more book lovers means less crime in Kolkata:
To start with … there are crimes and crimes, various nuances and shades. If burglaries, rape and murder are cognizable crimes, what about nursing-home doctors fleecing their patients and botching up operations [...]
No thanks to Mamata
Published by March 26th, 2009 in Business, Democracy, Development, Economy, Law and order and Poverty. 0 CommentsOf course, how can someone mention the Tata Nano and not talk about Bengal’s saviour Mamata Banerjee:
In the end, the market prevailed. Tata built its car in Gujarat and now a whole generation of people will be able to own their own cars and the freedom of movement that entails. Additionally, people with the Nano [...]
Naina Kapur’s Blog
Published by March 4th, 2009 in Activism, Democracy, Human Rights, Law and order, Society and South Asia. 0 CommentsI found out today that Naina Kapur has a blog! She has been instrumental in getting the Vishaka Judgment against sexual harassment at workplace. She has blogged in detail about it-
In 1997 I was lead instructing counsel before the Supreme Court of India in the case of Vishaka v State of Rajasthan & Ors.. It’s perhaps [...]
Supreme Court ruling on Blogger’s case
Published by February 25th, 2009 in Blogging, India, Justice and Law and order. 1 CommentThe blogosphere has begun responding to the Supreme Court ruling on a petition filed by Ajit, a 19 yr old blogger from Kerala. The Court told the petitioner that ““if someone files a criminal action on the basis of the content, then you will have to face the case. You have to go before the [...]
In a very touching post, Pallavi urges all of us, irrespective of whether we’re men or women, to speak up against abuse to women in any form:
s I started giving examples, the girl in a group announced that if I ever I have a daughter, I would never want to raise her in India and [...]
Breaking the rules
Published by February 3rd, 2009 in Government, India and Law and order. 1 CommentAbhi has a question for all of us who always blame on the system.
Wasn’t I wrong in the very first place when I lit up in the cab when I am not allowed? When I broke the law knowingly?
Why do we crib about corruption in our country and about laws being not implemented ?? Will [...]
Preserving Indian culture at the Mangalore pubs
Published by January 29th, 2009 in Culture, Democracy, Government, Human Rights, India, Law and order, Media, Patriarchy, Politics, Prejudice and Women. 8 CommentsA fanatic, they say, is someone who does what he thinks God would have done, if He had the details of the case. In this case, only if everyone knew how the civilization and culture accumulated over 5,000 years was being destroyed through “obscene dancing” in pubs.
Vishita titles her post “Shame on me and shame [...]
The cost of building Megacity Ahmedabad
Published by January 26th, 2009 in Democracy, History, Law and order, Politics and Religion. 0 CommentsAmidst all the hoopla for making Narendra Modi the next Indian PM (where interestingly, Preity Zinta is the latest addition), Girish Shahane uncovers the sbtle plans of bulldozing down some of Ahmedabad’s heritage monuments:
Along that road lie two of the 500 year-old mosques I have spoken of, including the Rani Sipri mosque, a small but [...]
The disappointment with Satyam
Published by January 8th, 2009 in Business, Economy, IT and Law and order. 1 CommentAnubhooti had bought stocks just an hour before all the news of the mayhem spread:
Yesterday I dont know why, but I felt very sad, it was neither the first time I lost, nor the amount was too big, but may be it hurt me for multiple reasons and biggest one was that…….it was a real [...]
The Civil Defence of Karnataka and Janaagraha have launched the Area [...]
I feel ashamed to be an Indian
Published by November 2nd, 2008 in Government, Human Rights, Indiaspora, Law and order, Patriarchy, Prejudice, Society and Women. 0 CommentsSK quotes on his blog:
India being my mother nation it is with heavy heart I’m saying that I wish to change my citizenship to a country where men are not considered to be criminals and rapists by birth! I feel ashamed to be the citizen of a country where its administration and judiciary do not [...]
Step-motherly treatment for Polygamy?
Published by October 31st, 2008 in Justice and Law and order. 1 CommentVinod Joseph says that we need to include polygamy in the discussions about the sex between consenting adults.
Therefore, the criminalisation of bigamy prevents married people from registering relationships they may be involved in outside their marriage, but does not actually prevent the relationship (unless it amounts to adultery). In my opinion, polygyny and polyandry ought [...]
As the wimps also known as terrorists strike again, here is the reaction from one blogger, theanarchia reacts to the predictable “condemnation” of these attacks by the politicians:
Could somebody atleast give a new dialogue to this old gentleman. At last India is now paying the price for gerontocracy. They have neither passion nor energy to [...]
Praveen Dalal practices law at the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India in matters relating to hi-tech crime and cyber forensics. In a post teeming with links and much more useful data,he writes about the digital age of India:
Another issue that assumes significance in this regard is the fact that Internet is [...]
Where there is a smoke
Published by October 7th, 2008 in Law and order, Religion and Society. 3 CommentsVivek Bharat at Desicritics writes a passionate article, examining causes behind the recent clashes in Orissa and Karnataka, and also pointing to a solution in the end:
While the Bajrang Dal and its associates cannot be in any way excused for the present violence if proven guilty, there is something that must be highlighted in its [...]
An ideal called India writes a passionate open letter to the terrorists:
You sent taunting emails to news channels. Now hear my challenge to you: Do whatever you can. Use your most powerful weapons and your dirtiest tricks and every power and resource you have. I dare you to touch this idea. I dare you to [...]
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