Raipur: The National Human Rights Commission on Tuesday took cognizance of a complaint that more than 42 people, including minors, from Chhattisgarh are working as bonded labourers at brick kilns in Jammu and Kashmir.
The commission has asked its director general (investigation) to depute a team for an "on-the-spot inquiry and submit a report expeditiously in the matter", said a statement posted on the commission's website.
"A complainant has alleged that the two brick kilns having bonded labourers are located at village Agra Chowk and Purab Pana in tehsil Nawanshahr in Jammu," the statement said.
The complaint alleged the victims were from Janjgir Champa district of Chhattigarh....
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02:47 AM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: An Army Brigadier will face disciplinary action after he was indicted by a Court of Inquiry (CoI) for allegedly borrowing money from his subordinates and taking away property from his official residence during his posting in Sikkim. Sources said that a CoI was initiated against Brigadier LI Singh for allegedly borrowing money from wet canteen contractors of units and from subordinate officers and it has recommended disciplinary action...
11:24 PM, Apr 07, 2013
BJP on Monday demanded a high-level inquiry into SP leader Shivpal Yadav's allegations of opium smuggling and using charas against Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma. "Shivpal Yadav is a senior (state) cabinet minister and if he has levelled allegations against the union minister, he must have done it responsibly. A high-level inquiry should be conducted into the matter," state BJP chief spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak told reporters in Lucknow....
04:30 AM, Apr 02, 2013
The Bombay High Court's retired judge Shrikant Malte will conduct an inquiry into the communal riots in Dhule in north Maharashtra that left six people dead in January 2013. ...
01:55 AM, Mar 19, 2013
Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar died as a result of a litany of failures by hospital staff, a leaked draft of a probe report said, proving her family's claim that her death was avoidable. The report by Ireland's health ministry revealed that doctors looking after for the 31-year-old dentist seriously failed to investigate, recognise and treat the infection which led to her death. ...
09:42 PM, Feb 16, 2013
Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Monday said he had ordered an inquiry into the death of Indian national Chambail Singh, who died after he was allegedly assaulted by prison staff in Lahore in December 2012. "I (have) ordered an enquiry by (the Federal Investigation Agency) today," Malik said in a message posted on Twitter. ...
01:00 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Inquiry report prepared by Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Javed Ahmed will be submitted to the Maharashtra government by Friday evening on riots that broke out in Dhule on January 6. On Thursday, the owner of the eatery, where the fight began, was arrested on charges of inciting violence and damaging public property. ...
11:35 AM, Jan 11, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday refuted Pakistan's claims that India had violated ceasefire norms and that Poonch firing was not an unprovoked incident. "The Indian forces are strictly in accordance with ceasefire norms," he told reporters. He further said that no third party would be allowed to intervene in the issue. ...
04:50 PM, Jan 10, 2013
New Delhi: With India Against Corruption (IAC) activists coming under the scanner for suspicious land deals, the organisation's head Arvind Kejriwal has promised an internal Lokpal to look into the charges. Having hit media headlines by targeting Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari in acts of alleged corruption, IAC member Anjali Damania now finds herself under the scanner. She finds herself being accused of making windfall gains by selling...
11:09 PM, Oct 19, 2012
Lille: France's public prosecution service said on Tuesday it was shelving an investigation into allegations that disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a man once tipped to become president of France, had engaged in group rape. The prosecution service said in a statement it had taken the decision after a young woman retracted an allegation against the 63-year-old, who is also fighting wider accusations of sexual misdemeanour in France and...
02:52 AM, Oct 03, 2012
Guwahati: A judicial inquiry will be held to probe the Bodo-minority violence in lower Assam even as CBI has taken up seven cases related to the clashes that have claimed 77 lives so far. "We have decided on a judicial inquiry. This will be done at a much larger scale and cover the entire gamut of issues, including lapses by administration and recommendations for preventing such incidents in future," Assam...
06:28 PM, Aug 11, 2012
Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Monday ordered an inquiry into the land allotted to Asian Games gold medalist Pinki Pramanik, who recently walked out of jail after spending 26 days in custody on charges of rape. "KMDA CEO Vivek Bharadwaj will inquire into the matter about how Pinki was allotted the land under Sports quota and if she had used that plot in commercial purpose," state's Urban Development Minister...
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London: British leaders are forced to court powerful press barons such as Rupert Murdoch or risk savage media attacks which render them unable to govern effectively, former Prime Minister Tony Blair told an inquiry on Monday. Interrupted by a heckler who accused him of being a war criminal for supporting the US invasion of Iraq, Blair paused briefly before continuing to justify his ties to Murdoch with whom he said...
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08:50 PM, May 16, 2012
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03:28 PM, May 12, 2012
Leh: A group of army officers and jawans clashed in an artillery regiment near Leh following an incident of alleged misbehaviour involving an orderly prompting the army to order a court of inquiry into the incident. The trigger for the clash took place late on Friday afternoon in Nyoma sub-district, located 150 kilometres from here, when a jawan allegedly misbehaved with a Major who is said to have beaten him...
08:58 AM, May 12, 2012
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09:49 PM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: Strongly condemning the incident of shoe hurling towards Rahul Gandhi in Uttarakhand, Congress on Monday suspected BJP's role in it and demanded a thorough inquiry into the episode to find out the truth. "I condemn it. It is unfortunate. For some time, BJP has been saying that people will come on streets and a civil war could take place. Such kind of irresponsible statements encourage such acts. I...
05:41 AM, Jan 24, 2012
