Hathras

The arrest of a journalist en route to Hathras has unveiled the draconian features of the Act, under which anyone can be arrested for a period of six months without any proof of anti-national activities. It raises serious questions about violation of human rights.

The Supreme Court today adjourned a habeas corpus petition seeking the release of a journalist from the alleged illegal detention of UP Police.

The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned the habeas corpus plea filed by the Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) seeking the release of its Delhi unit secretary Siddique Kappan from the illegal detention of Uttar Pradesh Police by 4 weeks.

The death of a Dalit woman and the disposal of her body in Uttar Pradesh have shown a force that is brutal and insensitive. The best practices of civilised societies should be followed for people to trust the police again.

The Uttar Pradesh Police has registered 21 FIRs across the state in the aftermath of the alleged gang rape and death of a 19-year-old woman in Hathras. The FIRs have been filed against charges such as defaming the government, inciting communal tension, sedition, promoting enmity, and criminal conspiracy.

The Uttar Pradesh government has filed an affidavit with the Supreme Court, in which it has claimed that permission was taken from the family of the Hathras victim before cremation. The government has also claimed that the families in question “had personal enmity since a long time.”

A petition has been filed by a retired judicial officer in the Supreme Court, seeking action against the policemen who were involved in the illegal cremation of the victim girl in Hathras.

New Delhi (ILNS): Seema Kushwaha, who was once the family lawyer of the 23-year-old paramedic student who was gang-raped on a moving bus on the night of December 16, 2012, by six people in Delhi, will now fight the case of the Hathras victim.

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The Delhi High Court has directed the Commissioner of Police to take serious and effective action against the concerned police personnel who were recalcitrant and failed to perform their duties in a case of kidnapping.