Thursday, March 28, 2024

Topic: Police Brutality

RSS’s role under scanner in Tamilnadu police killings

Even some ID cards (see photo) bear the FOP and Sewa Bharati names together. The TN model is being replicated elsewhere. For instance, in Uttar Pradesh, under the garb of ‘Police Mitra’, volunteers in civil clothes had attacked protesters during the anti-CAA stir.

‘Father-son duo beaten whole night,’ head constable Revathy to court. Magistrate says policemen try to intimidate her

In her eyewitness statement, Sathankulam Police Station's head constable Revathy told the Judicial Magistrate of Kovilpatti that the father-son duo at Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu was beaten the whole night, and there were bloodstains on lathis.

In Tamilnadu, 15 police killings but not a single chargesheet, Kanimozhi MP’s letter to NHRC (full text)

Kanimozhi alleged that there have been 15 incidents of custodial deaths in the State but not a single chargesheet has been filed against officials who were responsible for it.

Police brutality is endemic, Madras High Court on custodial death of a father-son duo in Thoothukudi

Hearing a suo motu petition on the custodial death of a father-son duo in Thoothukudi, the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court observed that police brutality has become endemic these days.

Police brutality on Jamia students is ‘utter falsehood’: Delhi Police to High Court

Delhi police, in a counter-affidavit submitted to the Delhi High Court, denied allegations of brutality on students of Jamia Millia Islamia in December last year, calling the claims 'utter falsehood'.

‘Enough is enough’, a note from Black Lives Matter

In the wake of George Floyd's killing, Black Lives Matter demanded acknowledgment and accountability for the devaluation and dehumanization of Black life at the hands of the United State's white police.