Topic: police killing
Malik: Struggling between genre and social commentary
The Beemapally police firing which resulted in multiple deaths including that of a 14-year-old Muslim boy is the inspiration behind the movie. Ever since the movie's release, there have been criticisms against the distortion of the actual events to favour a state narrative about the police killings. Hence, the tail-end is the final draw from the director to hold together a technically good movie with a weak script, with an even weaker political understanding.
Why thousands of Adivasis protest against police camp in Silger?
Chhattisgarh is situated exactly where the heart of India would point to — a little towards the bottom right. About 500 kilometres south of...
Lockdown ‘violation’: Mentally unstable man beaten to death by cops in Karnataka
The policemen in Karnataka's Madikeri had allegedly beaten the 50-year-old mentally unstable man Roy D'Souza for "violating the lockdown" last week.
Mewat’s 21 year old Muslim youth dies after torture by Faridabad police
21-year-old Junaid, resident of Jamalgarh in Mewat, lost his life days after he was mercilessly tortured by the cybercrime police in Faridabad in Haryana on Friday.
Ayub Khan, 50-year-old, dies after police officer tortures him in Haryana
Ayub Khan, a 50-year-old man died after he was tortured by a police officer at Panipat’s Quila police station in Haryana.
“There are still marks of our father’s blood…” say children who saw UP police killing their father
On 23 May, Mohammed Aqeel Qureshi, a 42 year old meat seller from Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh was resting with his wife and children on the terrace when police raided his house to book him in a cow-slaughter case. Police tried to extort money from Qureshi but ended in holding his collar, knocking a pistol butt on his head and throwing him off the terrace. His two daughters and wife were the eyewitnesses.
