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Before the year draws to a close and the festivities begin, I would like to draw your attention towards how one celebration of Jharkhand Adivasis became a day of mourning; events that have followed have meant no recourse to justice
Story of encounter killing of Bramhadev Singh
Story of encounter killing of Bramhadev Singh
On June 12, 2021 several Hindi and English language media outlets reported an encounter between ‘Maoists’ and Jharkhand police and security forces in the Kuku-Piri forest in Jharkhand’s Latehar district. A rumour was spread that a Maoist, of the gang Chhotu Kerwar had been killed
Local journalists reached the spot of the incident and started sharing videos and information that the one killed was not a Maoist but an Adivasi youth. In subsequent reporting by both print and digital+English and Hindi language media outlets, it was clarified that the person
#Supremecourt to shortly hear a plea by NGO PUCL for a direction to the Centre to issue advisory to all police stations against registering of FIR under Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, declared unconstitutional by the top court on March 24, 2015 #ITAct #66A
PUCL has urged court to direct the Centre to collect all the data regarding FIRs or investigations where Section 66A has been invoked as well as pendency of cases in the courts throughout the country #supremecourt #pucl
