Pune Farmer Firing

Union Minister Smriti Irani on Monday attacked the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party alliance, saying protesting farmers were fired upon by police near Pune during their regime.

A court in Maharashtra has discharged 185 farmers facing trial in the 2011 Maval firing case, allowing the state government's application seeking withdrawal of the case filed against the cultivators. Three farmers, including a woman, were killed in police firing and 16 farmers had received injuries during the agitation on August 9, 2011 in Maval te...

Seven months after Maval firing incident in which three farmers were killed and nine were injured when police fired upon protesters, Pune rural police has arrested 47 persons for attacking the police.

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday quietly arrived in Maval sub-district here in Maharashtra where three farmers were killed in police firing on August 9, official sources said.

After three farmers were killed in police firing while protesting on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway on August 9, Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Sunday faced the wrath of the family of one of the one of the victims.The incident occurred when Mr Chavan had gone to the houses of the deceased. Angered by the death of their sole breadwinner...

At the start of this week, Lata Tupe could be seen dressed like any other young married woman in the village of Sadawli in Maharashtra, a two hour drive from Mumbai. Her sari was clean but faded, her wrists wore the traditional thin bangles that confer marital status. No more. She is dressed today in the white sari that confers upon her the new pos...

The death of three farmers in police firing in Pune is now snowballing into a major controversy for the Maharashtra government. After shocking video footage of alleged police excesses during the farmers' agitation on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway came to the fore yesterday, two cops who were seen firing at fleeing farmers have been suspended.

On camera, a group of policemen, many in anti-riot gear and armed with weapons and sticks, charge down a road; one fires from his revolver. Then, a cop goes to the edge of the road, takes aim at people running helter skelter beyond and fires. He looks for another vantage point and fires again. More policemen gather around and throw stones at the pe...

The death of three farmers in police firing in Pune has escalated into a major controversy in Maharashtra, finding echo in the state Assembly, as serious questions are raised about police excesses. For a third day today, the House was adjourned after the Opposition attacked the government.

A tempo driver who had parked his vehicle a kilometre from the spot where the farmer agitation and police firing occurred on Tuesday was hit by a bullet, leading to confusion over whether it was a police gun or a private firearm that was responsible for his injuries.

The situation in Maval in Pune is peaceful and under control, a day after three persons was killed there in the police firing when a farmers' protest against a dam water pipeline project turned violent. A magisterial inquiry had been ordered into the firing, District Collector Vikas Deshmukh said.

At least three farmers have died in police firing during a protest at the Mumbai-Pune highway. The farmers jammed the express highway on Tuesday morning to protest the diversion of agricultural water away from their land.

Union Minister Smriti Irani on Monday attacked the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party alliance, saying protesting farmers were fired upon by police near Pune during their regime.

A court in Maharashtra has discharged 185 farmers facing trial in the 2011 Maval firing case, allowing the state government's application seeking withdrawal of the case filed against the cultivators. Three farmers, including a woman, were killed in police firing and 16 farmers had received injuries during the agitation on August 9, 2011 in Maval te...

Seven months after Maval firing incident in which three farmers were killed and nine were injured when police fired upon protesters, Pune rural police has arrested 47 persons for attacking the police.

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday quietly arrived in Maval sub-district here in Maharashtra where three farmers were killed in police firing on August 9, official sources said.

After three farmers were killed in police firing while protesting on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway on August 9, Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Sunday faced the wrath of the family of one of the one of the victims.The incident occurred when Mr Chavan had gone to the houses of the deceased. Angered by the death of their sole breadwinner...

At the start of this week, Lata Tupe could be seen dressed like any other young married woman in the village of Sadawli in Maharashtra, a two hour drive from Mumbai. Her sari was clean but faded, her wrists wore the traditional thin bangles that confer marital status. No more. She is dressed today in the white sari that confers upon her the new pos...

The death of three farmers in police firing in Pune is now snowballing into a major controversy for the Maharashtra government. After shocking video footage of alleged police excesses during the farmers' agitation on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway came to the fore yesterday, two cops who were seen firing at fleeing farmers have been suspended.

On camera, a group of policemen, many in anti-riot gear and armed with weapons and sticks, charge down a road; one fires from his revolver. Then, a cop goes to the edge of the road, takes aim at people running helter skelter beyond and fires. He looks for another vantage point and fires again. More policemen gather around and throw stones at the pe...

The death of three farmers in police firing in Pune has escalated into a major controversy in Maharashtra, finding echo in the state Assembly, as serious questions are raised about police excesses. For a third day today, the House was adjourned after the Opposition attacked the government.

A tempo driver who had parked his vehicle a kilometre from the spot where the farmer agitation and police firing occurred on Tuesday was hit by a bullet, leading to confusion over whether it was a police gun or a private firearm that was responsible for his injuries.

The situation in Maval in Pune is peaceful and under control, a day after three persons was killed there in the police firing when a farmers' protest against a dam water pipeline project turned violent. A magisterial inquiry had been ordered into the firing, District Collector Vikas Deshmukh said.

At least three farmers have died in police firing during a protest at the Mumbai-Pune highway. The farmers jammed the express highway on Tuesday morning to protest the diversion of agricultural water away from their land.