A Jail Story
Knowing that he was going to meet his creator very soon, Afzal had resigned to fate and turned to religion inside Tihar jail. As...
Knots of the NOOSE
Afzal Guru dropped out of medical college, crossed LoC, returned and surrendered. His protracted struggle to survive without becoming a surrogate soldier or a...
The Other Horrors of Avtar Singh!
With the Jammu and Kashmir police closing the case against Major (Retd) Avtar Singh who attained notoriety in the murder of top human rights...
The Lowest Conviction Story
While the issue of security for women hogged headlines in mainland India, Kashmir’s is a different story. Being a conservative society, very few cases...
Survivor of the Year: Omar Abdullah
It was for the first time in the history of J&K that a sitting Chief Minister was accused of a murder! But the accusation...
In the Court of Law
The courts in Jammu and Kashmir settled many cases in 2012. While the verdicts evoked controversies in many instances, some cases got heightened media...
Addressing Lawless Laws
The state government which wastes no opportunity to empathize with the victims of conflict made every effort to maintain the statusquo when it comes...
Survival Tales
Trained across the LoC, they fought in Kashmir, were jailed and set free. Some of them surrendered too. But that didn’t end the uncertainty...
Till Death
The J&K High Court ruling which upheld the ‘imprisonment for life’ sentence of the incarcerated separatist, Ashiq Hussain Faktoo, has put the ball in...
TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE
Incarcerated for nearly 17 years in Delhi’s Tihar jail, two youth from Kashmir, who were falsely implicated for their involvement in the 1996 Lajpat...
Benefit of doubt
Most of the accused including the pimp and her alleged clients were exonerated by a designated CBI court in Chandigarh to which the sensational...
Tabinda Gani: An Award, A Case
Nearly five years after Tabinda Gani was abducted, gang-raped and murdered in a sleepy Handwara village in north Kashmir, the J&K government has set...
Raising cost of resistance
The state, it seems, can not run out of ideas. The police have suddenly become aware of its sealing powers, and is putting it...
Injustice and desperation
It has been more than 12 years since the victims of Pathribal faked encounter were laid to rest. But their charred bodies, identified after...
Killer’s last decade
Serial killer, Major Avtar Singh could have neither fled India without government help nor lived in the US without the local sleuths looking the...
