Media & Entertainment News Supreme Court stops Chhattisgarh from using tribals in Salwa Judum July 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday slammed the Chhattisgarh government for using tribals as special police officers (SPOs) in its Salwa Judum counter-insurgency operation against the Maoists , saying this should immediately stop. An apex court bench of Justice B. Sudershan Reddy and Justice S.S Nijjar directed the Chhattisgarh government to immediately “cease and desist” from […] Read more » Chhattisgarh Justice B. Sudershan Reddy Justice S.S.Nijjar Salwa Judum Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Salwa Judum has gone out of control: Agnivesh March 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Salwa Judum – a civil militia movement Chhattisgarh launched in 2005 to counter leftist insurgency – has gone out of control, social activist Swami Agnivesh said Sunday, a day after being attacked by Salwa Judum cadres and special police officers (SPOs) in Dantewada district. ‘Salwa Judum leadership is in the wrong hands. It has gone […] Read more » Agnivesh out of control Salwa Judum
Top Law News Salwa Judum on its way out, Supreme Court told August 31, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The anti-Maoist vigilante group Salwa Judum is on it way out in Chhattisgarh and the state government has been told not to support its activists, the central government told the Supreme Court Tuesday. “We have instructed the state government not to extend any support to Salwa Judum activists,” Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium told an apex […] Read more » Salwa Judum Supreme Court