New Delhi: The Delhi police has issued a lookout notice against the doctor couple who had locked up their 13-year-old maid and left for a holiday in Bangkok. What was more shocking is that the couple had left the physically abused child for 6 days with hardly any food in the house. The ordeal that the maid suffered will be hard for her to forget. Her employers, both doctors living...
09:26 AM, Apr 03, 2012
CHENNAI: A 17-year-old girl arrived at the police commissioners office with her aunt and submitted a petition on Wednesday seeking action against a 17-year-old boy, alleging that he had kidnapped and physically tortured her for three months.The girl, a cashier in a canteen run by a popular textile store in T Nagar, alleged that the boy, working as a sales boy in another textile store in the area, would regularly...
08:17 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Ghaziabad: Former Uttar Pradesh minister Babu Singh Kushwaha has alleged that he was "tortured" in CBI custody during interrogations. "CBI tortured us during interrogations for ten days," said the sacked BSP minister, while he along with another accused, former BSP MLA Ram Pratap Jaiswal, were being taken to Dasna prison on Tuesday. While talking to media at the entry gate of the prison, Kushwaha said that both of them gave...
01:21 AM, Mar 15, 2012
Mumbai: A police constable attached to Bandra Government Railway Police (GRP), attempted suicide by consuming phenyl inside the police station in front of his senior who he accuses of persecuting him for no reason. Constable Ganesh Bharat Kamble (34) alleged that he couldn't take the mental torture Senior Inspector Vijay Dhopavkar would inflict on him routinely. About 7.30 pm on January 25, Kamble met Dhopavkar in his cabin and gave...
12:35 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Mansa SSP Pradeep Yadav said that the police are investigating the incident, promising action against the guilty. ...
08:24 AM, Jan 23, 2012
Kolkata: Eight BSF personnel were suspended on Wednesday evening after a disturning video footage showed the guards as thrashing a Bangladeshi cattle smuggler at Raninagar outpost near Indo-Bangla border in Murshidabad district. CNN-IBN doesn't vouch for the authenticity of the video - in which a couple of men, in BSF-style dark-green fatigues have tied up a man and are shown assaulting him. The BSF swung into action - suspending 8...
09:18 AM, Jan 19, 2012
Kabul: A 15-year-old Afghan girl severely tortured for months by her in-laws in an attempt to force her into prostitution will be sent to India for medical treatment, an Afghan official said on Monday. Sahar Gul's mother-in-law and sister-in-law were arrested and her husband was being sought, said Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi. The case has shocked Afghanistan, though rights activists say serious abuses against women and girls in the...
03:30 AM, Jan 03, 2012
Kabul: A 15-year-old Afghan girl was brutally tortured, beaten and locked in a toilet by her husband's family for months after she refused to become a prostitute, officials said on Saturday. Sahar Gul was in critical condition when she was rescued from a house in northern Baghlan province last week, after her neighbours reported hearing Gul crying and moaning in pain. According to police in Baghlan, her in-laws pulled out...
09:02 PM, Jan 01, 2012
Hyderabad: In perhaps the first instance of victims of police torture in a terror case being paid compensation in India, Andhra Pradesh has released Rs 7 million for innocent Muslim youths arrested and tortured in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case. A day after Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy announced in the state assembly that the compensation would be paid, the minorities welfare department on Tuesday issued an order...
01:26 PM, Dec 07, 2011
New Delhi: Suspended Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was on Friday asked by the Supreme Court to withdraw his petition in connection with the Jamnagar custodial torture case. The officer complied with the instructions of the court and withdrew the petition. The apex court asked Bhatt to approach High Court in connection with the case. Bhatt had challenged the legality of the proceedings initiated against him in Jamnagar custodial torture...
11:52 AM, Nov 18, 2011
A nanny who used to work for Gaddafi's family claims boiling water was poured on her by Gaddafi's daughter-in-law for not being able to make a child stop crying. ...
11:16 AM, Sep 03, 2011
A nanny who worked for one of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's sons, speaks about the horrific torture she suffered. ...
11:38 PM, Aug 29, 2011
New Delhi: In a shocking case of police atrocity from Punjab's Kapurthala district a 15-year-old boy was allegedly tortured after being arrested on charges of theft in June. The teenager was allegedly kept in illegal custody for 36 hours and brutally tortured by the area Deputy Superintendent of Police. He was beaten, given electric shocks and was allegedly made to confess under duress. "They took me away without any notice...
11:44 AM, Jul 08, 2011
The 23 year old student was attacked by thugs and hundreds of others at a peaceful sit-in at Tahir square. ...
11:47 AM, Mar 19, 2011
Washington: The United States is still reviewing whether Indian Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath, who has been summoned by a New York court for his alleged role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, can be given diplomatic immunity. "The immunity question remains under review here at the State Department, and we have not made any determination at this point," the State Department spokesman Philip J Crowley told reporters on Monday when...
10:39 AM, Jan 25, 2011
Villagers near Jahrgram allege of rape, arson and torture by state police personnel during anti-Naxal operations. ...
07:53 PM, Jul 12, 2010
A man accuses his judge father-in-law of harassing him and implicating his family in a false dowry case. ...
12:06 PM, Jun 26, 2010
17 Indians were found guilty over the murder of a Pakistani in Sharjah and were sentenced to death. ...
09:08 AM, Apr 25, 2010
Maoists are India's worst human rights offenders. But their supporters say they are fighting for survival. ...
10:19 AM, Apr 14, 2010
The Prevention of Torture Bill, 2010, will be a step towards ratification of 1975 UN treaty against torture. ...
04:45 PM, Apr 08, 2010
