Delhi Police Atrocity

Hearing petitions alleging police atrocities on students inside the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University here following anti-CAA protests in December 2019, the Delhi High Court on Monday said excessive use of force cannot be justified.

Delhi Police on Tuesday opposed in the high court here a plea to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to inquire into alleged police atrocities that took place in Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University in December 2019.

The principal of Delhi University's Daulat Ram College has been booked for offences under the SC Act after an assistant professor (ad hoc) accused her of atrocities, police said on Tuesday.

Delhi Police has informed a court in New Delhi that no offence is made out under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and conspiracy against the principal of a Delhi University college for alleged casteist remarks.

Human rights violations should not be limited to just custodial deaths and police atrocities, but must also include cases like denial of basic facilities like toilets, electricity and food, said Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Saturday.

The Delhi government has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the death of a 34-year-old man who tried to intervene in a road-side fight between a couple and the police at northeast Delhi's Nand Nagri area. The man's wife has alleged that her husband's death was because of police torture.

Soni Sori's father was shot by suspected Maoists, her husband incarcerated for allegedly supporting them. But Soni Sori, a tribal teacher from Dantewada in Chhattisgarh, wants to return to the state despite the threats she says she faces.

Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj today expressed concern over the brutal rape of a five-year-old in the national capital and police atrocities on some women protesting the incident.

Indian Mujahideen terrorists were planning to carry out a 'fidayeen' attack at Bihar's Bodh Gaya to avenge "atrocities" against Muslims in Myanmar, Delhi Police claimed today after arresting a fifth man in connection with Pune serial blasts in August this year.

A 30-year-old entrepreneur has filed a petition with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Delhi, seeking its intervention into the alleged unlawful actions of Assistant Commissioner of Police Vasant Dhoble of the Social Service branch. Pune resident Tehseen Poonawalla, entrepreneur and youth activist has in his petition requested NHRC to en...

US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton had a couple of uninvited guests at the Taj Palace Hotel in the Capital on Tuesday night. Two Iranian nationals were detained by Chanakyapuri police after they went to the Taj Palace Hotel on Tuesday to meet Clinton to make her aware of the atrocities their government was committing on them, Intelligence Burea...

Three policemen attached to the Govindpuri police station in south Delhi wrote a new chapter in police atrocities by beating and detaining a 23-year-old private firm employee of the same area allegedly at the instance of his employer who purportedly paid them for the heinous act.Subhash used to work in a button factory owned by Gauri Shankar in Gov...

Hearing petitions alleging police atrocities on students inside the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University here following anti-CAA protests in December 2019, the Delhi High Court on Monday said excessive use of force cannot be justified.

Delhi Police on Tuesday opposed in the high court here a plea to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to inquire into alleged police atrocities that took place in Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University in December 2019.

The principal of Delhi University's Daulat Ram College has been booked for offences under the SC Act after an assistant professor (ad hoc) accused her of atrocities, police said on Tuesday.

Delhi Police has informed a court in New Delhi that no offence is made out under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and conspiracy against the principal of a Delhi University college for alleged casteist remarks.

Human rights violations should not be limited to just custodial deaths and police atrocities, but must also include cases like denial of basic facilities like toilets, electricity and food, said Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Saturday.

The Delhi government has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the death of a 34-year-old man who tried to intervene in a road-side fight between a couple and the police at northeast Delhi's Nand Nagri area. The man's wife has alleged that her husband's death was because of police torture.

Soni Sori's father was shot by suspected Maoists, her husband incarcerated for allegedly supporting them. But Soni Sori, a tribal teacher from Dantewada in Chhattisgarh, wants to return to the state despite the threats she says she faces.

Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj today expressed concern over the brutal rape of a five-year-old in the national capital and police atrocities on some women protesting the incident.

Indian Mujahideen terrorists were planning to carry out a 'fidayeen' attack at Bihar's Bodh Gaya to avenge "atrocities" against Muslims in Myanmar, Delhi Police claimed today after arresting a fifth man in connection with Pune serial blasts in August this year.

A 30-year-old entrepreneur has filed a petition with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Delhi, seeking its intervention into the alleged unlawful actions of Assistant Commissioner of Police Vasant Dhoble of the Social Service branch. Pune resident Tehseen Poonawalla, entrepreneur and youth activist has in his petition requested NHRC to en...

US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton had a couple of uninvited guests at the Taj Palace Hotel in the Capital on Tuesday night. Two Iranian nationals were detained by Chanakyapuri police after they went to the Taj Palace Hotel on Tuesday to meet Clinton to make her aware of the atrocities their government was committing on them, Intelligence Burea...

Three policemen attached to the Govindpuri police station in south Delhi wrote a new chapter in police atrocities by beating and detaining a 23-year-old private firm employee of the same area allegedly at the instance of his employer who purportedly paid them for the heinous act.Subhash used to work in a button factory owned by Gauri Shankar in Gov...