The Sirpurkar commission has found that the encounter in the 2019 Disha rape and murder case in Hyderabad, Telangana, was likely staged and fake. Its revelations make us wonder if the recent Malayalam film Jana Gana Mana said the unsaid in the Disha case. While justice delayed is justice...
The Supreme Court has ordered the release of Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict A G Perarivalan while six of the convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case continue to be in prison. The grounds for Perarivalan’s release rest on several factors. One was that his role in the assassination...
The movie Jai Bhim talked about a third-year-old case of police atrocities on the Irular, a marginalized tribe. The movie portrayed a particularly egregious case of victimization and brutality. Even today, false cases being foisted on Irular continues, says Prabha Kalvimani, an activist who has...
Key issues in the Kalimedu, Thanjavur, temple car accident include the navigation of such cars and safety precautions that need to be taken by festival organizers. A temple car, which is often a massive structure, requires experience and skill to move and navigate it through streets around the...
During any temple car procession, the standard operating procedure of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board is to switch off the power in the overhead cables in the streets through which the procession will pass through, said P Muthusamy, former director of engineering at the Tamil Nadu Electricity...
Perarivalan, who has been granted bail in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case had said in an interview to this writer more than 10 years ago that his aspiration as a youngster was to join the Indian Air Force. Fellow convict Santhan wanted nothing but reunite with his family in Sri Lanka. (The...
Gokulraj, the dalit youth, would have never expected that a casual trip to Tiruchengode Arthanareeswarar Temple with a woman friend – a college mate from the gounder community - on June 23, 2015 would cost him his life. The 21-year-old’s life was snuffed out by a caste outfit and his body was...
The prison and a legal system have always been a part of Madurai whose history goes down the ages
The tri-services Court of Inquiry (COI) constituted to probe the copter crash that killed Gen Bipin Rawat, India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), his wife and 12 officers has submitted its preliminary report. The Mi-17 V5 helicopter crashed in Nilgiris on December 8, 2021. The committee...
In November, a rash of cases of sexual harassment and violence were reported from schools. Some students committed suicide. A teacher in Karur committed suicide allegedly because he was scared of students leveling sexual assault charges against him. Sexual assault on a minor especially at...
