Why are retired IPS officers attacking Julio Ribeiro for seeking fair probe into Delhi riots? / Doubts in my original open letter not addressed: Ribeiro

NB: In his book The Book of Laughter and ForgettingMilan Kundera described the Soviet puppet President of Czechoslovakia as the President of Forgetting. Delhi's 'guardians of the law' may suitably be renamed the pet monkeys of the Sangh Parivar; of whom the unwritten rule in contemporary India remains: Don't See Evil, Don't Say Evil, Don't Hear Evil. DS    

Why are retired IPS officers attacking Julio Ribeiro for seeking fair probe into Delhi riots?  Twenty six retired IPS officers write to oppose Ribeiro’s letter to Delhi Police commissioner asking him to probe riots investigation. Doubts in my original open letter not addressed: Ribeiro. More on Julio Ribeiro's rebuke to Delhi Police.... 

MHA claims it has no data on Assam Detention Camp inmates! : Oddly enough the data had been regularly made available in multiple submissions before the Assam state assembly, and the fact that the same data was provided in the winter session of November 2019

Freedom Park: Where the marginalised unite1,500 to 2,000 farmers protested on the streets of Bengaluru against the three agriculture Bills introduced by the government.

MHA: Over 200 still detained under PSA in J&KThis ministry also said Covid measures were running smoothly with 2G internet in response to two questions asked in Lok Sabha

Farm Bills promote corporate hoarding and black marketing: Vijoo KrishnanJournalist and Activist Teesta Setalvad in conversation with All India Joint Secretary, AIKS and peasant leader Vijoo Krishnan on the three Farm Bills (2020) and whether they mock the Parliament and destroy Farmers.

Tablighi Jamaat event caused coronavirus to spread to ‘many persons’: MHAMinister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy also told Rajya Sabha that Delhi Police arrested 233 TJ members, evacuated 2,361 people from its HQ

'UPSC Jihad' is prime example of virulent Islamophobia: Petitioner in Sudarshan News caseThe petitioner filed a rejoinder to the counter affidavit filed by Sudarshan News, and stated that the channel failed to address the statements made in the show which amount to hate speech

Over 18,000 granted citizenship in India, many from Bangladesh and Pakistan: MHAMinistry produces the number of people who were granted Indian citizenship in the last five years

Hate speech demeans a community's right to live with dignity: Jamia students in SCThese students had earlier approached the Delhi High Court and had managed to get a stay in August on broadcast of the show

Two JJP MLAs join farmers' protests in Haryana, defying their own party assurancesFarmer Bills breaking up BJP-led coalitions?

Police have found no incriminating evidence on Rajeev Sharma: LawyerJournalist Rajeev Sharma, arrested by the Delhi police under Official Secrets Act, did not have any ‘classified documents’, his lawyer told the court

We stand in solidarity: Trade Unions oppose Centre's anti-people lawsDenouncing anti-worker laws, National Trade Unions call for a protest on September 23 to address their demands.

SC reserves order in Shaheen Bagh protest site eviction casePetitioner had demanded that protesters be forcibly evicted as they were causing traffic blockage

NBA suggests making code of ethics binding on news channels to strengthen regulationThe self-regulatory body was pulled up by the Supreme Court for not having adequate regulation over electronic media

UP Police arrest suspended colleague for social media post on PM, CMVijay Pratap Singh, a 2017-batch officer, was sent to judicial custody, by a local court in Etawah

Sudarshan News cites NDTV’s 'Hindu terror' show, pleads for vacation of staySuresh Chavhanke filed the additional affidavit seeking that the stay on the broadcast of his communally polarising 'UPSC Jihad' show be lifted

The end of Parliament Democracy: Farmers’ Unions decry passage of Agri Bills in RSAs protests continue against the anti-farmer Bills, the impunity with which the Upper House of the Parliament passed three key bills dubbed 'anti-farmer', is truly shocking.

KPSS’s fast-unto-death begins in SrinagarKashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti had sent multiple communications to government demanding rights of non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits

Source: Sabrang Newsletter

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Salute the spirit of resistance to tyranny - 'We can only help ourselves': women in Belarus take protests into their own hands

Popular uprising against Thailand's God-like monarchy

Samjhauta Express blast case verdict: ‘Who will answer for death of my five children?’

Sankarshan Thakur - Compliant and complicit: Indians are living the funereal carnival of their own dispossession

Pratap Bhanu Mehta - Thoki Raj: Creating order by trampling on law is one of the elements of dityanath’s ideological success

Patrick Cockburn: Trump, Erdogan, Modi, Orban, Bolsonaro – populist nationalists have met their match in the coronavirus

Prem Shankar Jha: The Shadow of Haren Pandya’s Case Lies Long Over Justice Arun Mishra

Nikhila Henry - Ex CJI Gogoi's RS Nomination Calls All His Judgments Into Question, Says Legal Expert

‘This episode is going to haunt SC in years to come’: Justice AP Shah on CJI sexual harassment case

Sabotage of Indian criminal justice continues unchecked: Aseemanand’s ‘disclosure’ missing from court

Apoorva Mandhani: Judge Loya's Confidants Died Mysterious Deaths

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Press Statement by concerned citizens on the interrogation of Professor Apoorvanand by the Special Branch

Samar Halarnkar: Narendra Modi and the unsurprising politics of vendetta // Aatish Taseer: I am Indian. Why is the Government Sending Me Into Exile?

Colin Gonsalves: Refusal of bail to Sudha Bharadwaj is based on inadmissible evidence

Coomi Kapoor: Everyone who succumbs to authority is no less guilty

Why is Dr Kafeel Khan Still In Jail On The Eve Of Independence Day? BY BETWA SHARMA

Pratap Bhanu Mehta: The loneliness of Varavara Rao, Anand Teltumbde, Sudha Bharadwaj tells a disquieting tale

Ramachandra Guha: Supreme Court must reflect on its calling as defined by the Constitution - and the direction it is taking

First Among Equals? // Laws, legal system totally geared in favour of rich and powerful: Justice Deepak Gupta

Express editorial on SC in-house inquiry: Not justice

#HumDekhenge Trends On Twitter As People Show Solidarity With Prashant Bhushan

VAKASHA SACHDEV: In Reply to Contempt Case, Bhushan Offers Detailed Critique of SC

Anil Nauriya - The Angst of August: Reading The Recent Political History of India // Express editorial: Prashant Bhushan judgement - the Supreme Court has diminished itself

Facing Contempt Case, Prashant Bhushan Says Sorry for Just One Remark; 'Why No Helmet by CJI?'

Confrontation in Supreme Court Of India bodes ill // Prashant Bhushan on the CJI’s ‘Extraordinary Interest’ in a Matter Directly Concerning Himself

Bharat Bhushan: A hanging in Dhaka, courtesy Delhi

Deputy National Security Advisor questioned by CBI in 2003 encounter case in Gujarat (2013)

Govt uses ‘adverse’ IB reports to reject names of 6 former judges for tribunals, commissions

CBI court raps Amit Shah for non-appearance in fake encounter case // Amit Shah all set to become BJP chief
Neelabh Mishra - Modi Sarkar, beware of tampering with the Constitution / Soli Sorabjee: What we need to guard / Arun Shourie: "What we are going towards is a pyramidal decentralised mafia state"

Ajmer blast case: Two including a former RSS worker get life imprisonment
Julio Ribeiro - Burying Karkare: I cannot let these forces go unchallenged

Terrifying implications of the SC's Staines Judgement

The Supreme Court, Gandhi and the RSS
The BJP and Justice, Chapter 2

Vyapam

Vanzara

VINOD K JOSE - Narendra Modi’s shadow lies all over the Haren Pandya case

Sanjiv Bhatt Sentenced To Life Imprisonment In 30 Year Old Custodial Death Case // Message from Shweta Bhatt

Mohan Bhagwat

अपूर्वानंद - भागवत और वंजारा साथ-साथ: हम कौन थे, क्या हो गए हैं और क्या होंगे अभी?

BHARAT BHUSHAN - Narendra Modi's Republic of fear ...

Public Appeal - Resist degradation of Indian criminal justice system

The emperor's masks: 'apolitical' RSS calls the shots in Modi sarkar         

The law of killing - a brief history of Indian fascism

List of serious criminal charges against new UP CM Yogi Adityanath

Julio Ribeiro - Burying Karkare: I cannot let these forces go unchallenged

Public Appeal - Resist degradation of Indian criminal justice system

Bombay HC Grants Bail To 3 Men, Saying They Were 'Provoked To Kill In The Name Of Religion'

बॉम्बे हाईकोर्ट के पूर्व जज ने Amit Shah की पूरी कुंडली खोल कर रख दी  Former Judge Exposes Shah

Margaret Wertheim - I feel therefore I am

Sabotage of Indian criminal justice continues unchecked: Aseemanand’s ‘disclosure’ missing from court

India: End Bias in Prosecuting Delhi Violence

Betwa Sharma: UP Cop Booked Yogi Adityanath Under NSA, Spent 20 Years In The Wilderness

Press Statement by concerned citizens on the interrogation of Professor Apoorvanand by the Special Branch

Re-investigate Judge Loya’s death: Sharad Pawar // सीबीआई जज की मौत को लेकर उठे सवाल

CJI on dais, Dosanjh recites ‘first they came for…’, talks of Auschwitz

मुझे पूरी उम्मीद है कि आप अपनी बारी आने से पहले बोलेंगे- डॉ.आनंद तेलतुंबड़े

Safoora Zargar: Why did India jail a pregnant student during Covid-19? By Geeta Pandey

Suhas Palshikar: Bhoomi pujan of the new republic // Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Political colonisation of Hinduism

सलाम, एदुआर्दो गालियानो , अलविदा !! // Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015)

Do our leaders want to certify political assassination?

Decline, Debasement and Devastation in the All India Services. By P. S. Appu (IAS, Retd)

The Broken Middle - on the 30th anniversary of 1984

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