Top Law News Assam rights panel moves NHRC against police atrocities June 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A human rights group in Assam has moved to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) over alleged police atrocities on anti-dam activists in the state. The Barak Human Rights Protection Committee (BHRPC) of Assam has taken up with NHRC the case of alleged police intimidation of members of the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) for opposing […] Read more » Assam rights panel moves NHRC against police atrocities NHRC police atrocities police atrocities as violation of human rights police atrocities in north east India
Criminal Law News Supreme Court wants zero tolerance for police atrocities November 5, 2011 / November 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Supreme Court wants zero tolerance for police atrocities The Supreme Court has said that police atrocities are violative of the constitutional mandate of protection of life and liberty and not resisting them amounts to erosion of the rule of law. “Tolerance of police atrocities… would amount to acceptance of systemic subversion and the erosion of the rule of law,” said the apex court […] Read more » Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice P. Sathasivam police atrocities Supreme Court