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Date: 13 May 2012
By Abdul Majid Zargar
The Supreme Court judgment in Pathribal fake encounter case constitutes a severe assault on the right to life of common people living in conflict areas like Kashmir.
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Date: 13 May 2012
• Denies prosecution sanction under AFSPA citing faulty investigations
• Questions veracity of witness accounts
• Says conclusions drawn under pressure from militant sympathizers to malign Army’s image
Wasim Khalid
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Date: 9 May 2012
Srinagar: A study by UK-based child rights organization, Save the Children, has revealed that estimated population of orphans in Jammu and Kashmir is 2,14,000 and 37 percent of them were orphaned due to the armed conflict.
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Date: 7 May 2012
Granted that they are courts of law and not of justice as one Oliver Wendell Holmes has said, but still Justices BS Chauhan and Swatanter Kumar would have done well not to miss the wood from the trees in the Pathribal case. Their ruling to establish a point of law is interpretation in its narrowest sense quite from the purpose of law.
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Date: 5 May 2012
AFSPA fallout
MoD received 44 cases for prosecution sanctions from 1990 to 2011
Wasim Khalid
Srinagar, May 4: In what can be seen as the fallout of controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act
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Date: 4 May 2012
LONDON, May 04 (INP): Global rights watchdog, the Amnesty International, has reiterated its demand for repeal of the draconian law, Public Safety Act (PSA) in occupied Kashmir, observing that mere amendments to the PSA by the authorities are not enough.
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Date: 2 May 2012
SRINAGAR, May 2: Syed Ali Shah Geelani, chairman Hurriyat Conference (G), has strongly reacted to the Supreme Court (SC) verdict on Pathribal fake encounter case and said this means providing legal protection to the killings of innocent people.
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Date: 2 May 2012
By: D S AHMAD
SRINAGAR, May 1: Reacting to the judgment of the Supreme Court (SC) over Pathribal fake encounter in which the supreme court (SC) said the sanction from the central government for the prosecution of army men involved is must the family members of Juma Khan said the murder of Pathribal victims should not be considered as a simple murder case.
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Date: 25 Apr 2012
SRINAGAR, Apr 25: The hearing in Janglat Mandi encounter case that took place in Anantnag 11 years ago resulting into severe injuries to the new army chief Lieutenant General Bikram Singh was adjourned today.
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Date: 24 Apr 2012
India’s human rights obligation – A Case study of discrimination and torture in Indian State of Uttar Pradesh
by Amit Singh
Institute of Human Rights and Peace
Mahidol Univesity, Thailand
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Date: 23 Apr 2012
SRINAGAR, April 23 (INP): The occupation Indian Army is allegedly denying compensation to mostly Pandit proprietors of around 40 kanals of agricultural land at Malmoo in Tehsil Pattan occupied for nearly 13 years since 1990.
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Date: 23 Apr 2012
SRINAGAR, April 23 (INP): Former militants are living under miserable condition, despite the much-hyped rehabilitation policy announced by the puppet administration for them.
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Date: 21 Apr 2012
SRINAGAR: Observing that legal process is ‘very slow’ in Jammu and Kashmir, Amnesty International today said there is a problem with the legal system and how it is working in the troubled state.
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Date: 17 Apr 2012
SRINAGAR, April 17 (INP): The Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Political Movement (DPM) has said that the Indian police personnel are harassing its leader, Shakeel Ahmad Butt, following his release on court orders.
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Date: 17 Apr 2012
Levy and Scott-Clark claim the Al Faran was ready to free the four hostages for money but the deal was sabotaged by “some in the Indian establishment”
Srinagar, April 17: The Al Faran abductions of 1995 swung back into focus as the Kashmir rights commission today sought “personal responses” from two top police officers, one retired and the other serving, who handled the case.
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Date: 16 Apr 2012
SRINAGAR: The ‘crackdown’ on youth involved in, as claimed by police, objectionable activities on the social networking site Facebook was today criticized and condemned by the mainstream parties, separatists as well as the human rights groups.
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Date: 16 Apr 2012
Court grants 2 weeks for records translation
SRINAGAR, Apr 16: The Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Srinagar today granted two weeks to the prosecution to translate records including the charge sheet into English so that it is submitted before the ministry of external affairs Government of India for extradition of accused army Major Avtar Singh wanted in Jaleel Andrabi murder case.
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Date: 15 Apr 2012
NEW DELHI, Apr 13 (Agencies): The Supreme Court today sought the stands of the Centre and all state governments on a plea for independent probe into all cases of alleged killings by police in staged shootouts in past 10 years in the country.
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Date: 12 Apr 2012
Union govt’s untenable stand over AFSPA, under military pressure, smacks of ethnic prejudice
For months and years the gullible people of Jammu and Kashmir are being fed with ethereal delusion over the issue of ‘de-application’ of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).
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Date: 11 Apr 2012
Syed Rizwan Geelani
Srinagar, April 10: Mohammad Ameen Zargar appears to be older than actually he is. His face is sun beaten and he looks a tired man. Zargar is tirelessly fighting for the justice of his son, Showkat Ahmad, who was allegedly killed in a staged encounter by Border Security Force (BSF) in 2002 in Rainawari.
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Date: 11 Apr 2012
Srinagar: The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has pulled up the state government for denying prisoners the 'fundamental right to speedy trial', lamenting that 'unjustifiable and avoidable' time-lag is consumed in trial and recoding of evidences.
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Date: 10 Apr 2012
Srinagar, Apr 09: Military and paramilitary forces deployed in conflict-torn Jammu and Kashmir still continue to occupy 1800 government and private buildings, though 1300 such camps and posts have been cleared in the past eight years, officials said.
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Date: 9 Apr 2012
The state government has once again made some noises about the need for the revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has indicated some movement towards the withdrawal of the law after the settlement of the controversy surrounding Army chief.
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Date: 6 Apr 2012
SRINAGAR, April 07 (INP): Two local human rights groups sought the help of State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) to unravel the mystery surrounding the disappearance of four foreigners abducted in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district in 1995.
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Date: 6 Apr 2012
JAMMU (INP): Following strong criticism by local, national and international human rights organizations and the common people, Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly amended the controversial Public Safety Act (PSA).
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