Ishrat Jahan

Slippery slope of extrajudicial killings leads to infinite darkness and not justice

Moral pieties aren't the answer to what’s happened in Hyderabad. For decades, extrajudicial executions have formed the bedrock of Indian criminal justice, a response to public frustration over the state's inability to enforce order

Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case: CBI opposes discharge pleas of 4 Gujarat cops, says govt sanctions allowing prosecution not needed

Ishrat Jahan, a 19-year-old woman from Mumbra near Mumbai, Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjadali Akbarali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed by Gujarat police in an alleged fake encounter on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on 15 June, 2004

Ishrat Jahan files police complaint, says was threatened, abused for attending Hanuman Chalisa recital wearing hijab in Howrah

Ishrat Jahan has filed a police complaint alleging she was threatened and verbally abused for attending a Hanuman Chalisa recital in a hijab in Howrah. Jahan is one of the five petitioners in the case against instant triple talaq in the SC. 'I am a secular person', she wrote in the complaint.

DG Vanzara and NK Amin discharged in Ishrat Jahan 'fake' encounter case after 15 years, but their journey isn't over yet

While Vanzara and Amin claimed that they stood vindicated by the order after a 15-year-long wait, the lawyers of Ishrat's mother Shamima Kauser said they will challenge the order before the high court

Ishrat Jahan case: Awaiting govt sanction to prosecute retired cops DG Vanzara and NK Amin, CBI tells special court

While rejecting their discharge applications in August 2018, the court had sought status from the CBI on whether sanction was sought from the state government to prosecute them so that it could proceed further with the framing of charges against the two former police officials

Gujarat fake encounters: SC rejects state's plea to keep Justice Bedi committee's report confidential, orders govt to share it with parties

The Supreme Court ordered the Gujarat government to share the Justice Bedi Committee's report on the 24 alleged fake encounters in the state between 2002 and 2006.

Accused policemen in Ishrat Jahan, Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter cases among six IPS officers promoted by Gujarat government

G L Singhal, one of the seven police officers chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Ishrat Jahan case, has been promoted to the rank of inspector general from deputy inspector general of the Commando Training Centre in Gandhinagar

'Fixing' Amit Shah and undermining institutional independence: Sohrabuddin case verdict gives BJP handy weapon against Congress

It is rare to find a more damning indictment of Congress' misdeeds by the judiciary. It may be rarer still to find a more brazen attempt at eroding institutional independence and interfering with an ongoing probe to suit political ends.

Rahul Gandhi should ask 'who killed Sohrabuddin investigation', says Arun Jaitley on Congress chief's reaction to verdict

Arun Jaitley in his Facebook post titled: 'Who killed the Sohrabuddin Investigation' said that those who have recently shown a belated concern for institutional independence, "should seriously introspect as to what they did to the CBI when they were in power"

Pinarayi Vijayan slams Kerala Congress chief for remark on DGP Loknath Behara, says he won't ‘dance to whims and fancies’ of Narendra Modi

Taking a dig at Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Congress Kerala chief Mullappally Ramachandran had earlier alleged that Narendra Modi had directed his "new found companion" to appoint Loknath Behara as DGP