New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday said the Constitutional right to peaceful protest must be protected and stressed that allegations of police excesses as well as violence against security personnel during demonstrations require an impartial examination, while indicating that a uniform nationwide protocol may be needed to govern the handling of public protests.A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI), Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana, hearing a batch of peti…
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Kolkata, July 26 (IANS) The West Bengal unit of Congress has registered an FIR against Manish Gupta, a former West Bengal minister in the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress regime and also a former bureaucrat in the Left Front regime in the state, over the infamous police firing in which 13 youth Congress workers died during a protest rally on July 21, 1993.Late Jyoti Basu was the Chief Minister of the state in 1993, and Gupta was the state Home Secretary when the police firing happ…
Kolkata, July 21 (IANS) Kolkata Police have been on heightened alert since Tuesday morning due to three concurrent July 21 Martyrs’ Day rallies occurring in close proximity to each other. These events are being organised to honour the memory of 13 Youth Congress workers who lost their lives in police firing during a protest rally on this day in 1993, when the Left Front regime was in power, with the late Jyoti Basu serving as Chief Minister.Till last year, there used to be one Martyrs’ Day r…
Shillong, March 10 (IANS) Two persons were killed in “police firing” to disperse a gathering during curfew hours in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills district early Tuesday, officials said.The incident has heightened tensions in the region just weeks before elections to the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC) scheduled for April 10.The firing occurred in Chibinang village where tensions had been simmering in recent days amid disputes linked to the upcoming GHADC polls.According to officials…
Patna, Feb 26 (IANS) Tension prevailed in the Kudra Police Station area of Kaimur district after people allegedly attacked police personnel who had reached a village to act on information about an illegal liquor party that was in violation of Bihar’s prohibition law.Several police personnel were injured, and police resorted to firing in what they termed as self-defence.According to police officials, a liquor party was organized late on Wednesday night in Kajhar Ghat village to celebrate the re…