Topic: custodial deaths
Assam: UAPA against wife, daughter for protesting Muslim man’s death in custody
Two days after a fish trader Safiqul Islam died in police custody in Assam, the cops arrested his wife, Rashida Khatun, and his daughter, a Class 8 student.
TN custodial death of Dalit man: SC Commission demands suspension of 5 cops
The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) on Friday asked Tamil Nadu’s (DGP) to suspend and arrest five police officials in relation to the custodial death of Vignesh
Chennai: Police offered 1 Lakh rupees to stay silent about custodial death of man, claims family
Days after a man died in custody in a Chennai police station, his brother claimed on Saturday that the police offered him Rs 1 lakh to stay silent on the matter.
Tihar Jail officers, police complicit in Muslim teenager’s custodial death, says fact-finding report
A rights group in national capital Delhi is calling for an investigation into the custodial death of a 18-year-old Muslim man Zeeshan Malik and said their fact-finding visit proved that the jail authorities and police officers were complicit in the death.
Custodial death of Altaf: Allahabad HC directs second autopsy
The Allahabad High Court on Thursday directed a second autopsy of the body of Muslim youth Altaf -who was died during police custody in Uttar Pradesh's Kasganj- by a team of doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi.
146 killings in 5 years: Yogi Adityanath’s ‘encounter squad’
According to the data and several studies, Uttar Pradesh leads the country in custodial deaths and extrajudicial killings. Muslims, Dalits and people from Other Backward Communities were on the receiving end of Yogi's state terror.
