Simi Encounter

SIMI encounter: Why laud the killings, they should rather be intensely scrutinised

Mourning the brave police constable and asking why an arrest could not be made, without all eight under-trials dying, does not have to be mutually exclusive

Orop suicide: Why an ex-serviceman may have landed BJP in its biggest political crisis

Indira Gandhi had repealed Orop and his own government did precious little to implement it but try telling that to Rahul Gandhi whose righteous indignation over Orop was matched only by the duplicity of Kejriwal.

SIMI encounter: All 29 prisoners in Bhopal jail had planned to escape on Diwali

New findings indicate that the Bhopal Jail break had been planned for months to free not just the 8 Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) activists, but all 29.

SIMI encounter: Large-scale police reforms necessary to maintain law and order, address citizen needs

Why then have our police sustained a reputation for lawlessness and brutality?

Orop issue, SIMI encounter, India-Pakistan ties: News stories come, collapse and never end

Will we ever find out if there is more to it than meets the eye? Orop is no reason to kill yourself.

SIMI operatives' jailbreak: MP human rights commission to probe into security lapses

The Madhya Pradesh Human Rights Commission (MPHRC) will conduct a probe into the circumstances surrounding the jailbreak, the lapses that led to the escape of prisoners which also caused the death of a jail security guard.

SIMI encounter: BJP dubs Pakistan High Commission 'ISI's den', slams Congress for insulting security forces

BJP on Tuesday called the Pakistan High Commission here "a den of ISI" after the recent arrest of its staffer in an espionage case, while hitting out at the Congress and other opposition parties for demoralising security forces by raising doubts over the killing of eight SIMI activists

SIMI encounter in Bhopal: 'Fake killing' or a hazardous narrative? Take your pick

The controversy over the jailbreak and subsequent killing of eight SIMI operatives by the Madhya Pradesh Police has predictably given rise to building of narratives over ever-deepening fault lines.

SIMI activists' encounter: Kin of alleged terrorists approach high court, seek CBI probe

A day after eight SIMI activists were killed in an alleged police encounter following a daring prison break in Bhopal, their families have decided to approach the Madhya Pradesh High Court seeking a CBI probe into what they dubbed as "cold-blooded murders".

SIMI operatives' encounter in Bhopal raises many questions, but cops, ATS have no answers

Just a few hours after killing the eight SIMI members in an encounter, police officials in Bhopal were finding it difficult to face the media and evaded questions about the circumstances surrounding the encounter.