An essay towards ending the persecution by khap panchayats ought now to be initiated with Tuesday’s Supreme Court directive (coram: Dipak Misra, CJ, AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud , JJ), decrying as “absolutely illegal” the attacks on, when not killings of, couples in the wake of inter-caste or same gotra marriages. The judicial intervention was …
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January 20, 2018A month after the murder of a senior journalist, KJ Singh, and his mother in Punjab’s Mohali area, Punjab police released photographs of five suspects on Saturday. The photographs, procured from CCTV camera footage, show five suspects — of whom three were turbaned — carrying out a recce of the victims’ house on the evening of …
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October 21, 2017The police said troops of the 13 Rashtriya Rifles and special operations group surrounded Manzpora village in Bandipoora district, following an information about the militant presence.
November 25, 2016The footage of the execution of Col Abdul Rahim Aldhalaa surfaced on social media.
November 23, 2016Dozens of people have been killed in the last two days after a three-week pause in the attacks came to an end, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) announced.
November 17, 2016