Jail Chalo
As the crisis enters fourth month, arrests dominate the scene. Now cops move from door-to-door and get the ‘suspects’ to police station where they...
Sitting On A Massacre?
Every time streets are tense, people within and outside government revive memories of 2010 summer. But the families of youth whom civil unrest devoured...
‘Shafi Ma Lobukh?’
When a Class 11 Batamaloo boy became one of the earliest enforced disappearance cases in Srinagar at the stroke of nineties, a silent death...
Firm of Liberty
As the situation crowded the jails across the state, not many could afford to arrange their court battles. It was then a legal firm...
The Bravehearts
They were toddlers when Kunan tragedy became international news in 1991. Two decades later, five girls approached court and reopened the shut and closed...
Bitter PIL
Imdad Saqi has been using PIL for a very long time now to make systems work. This helped him manage getting back a manuscript...
Reserved to Rot
Ideally, under-privileged and backward category population should get one chance to improve its mobility. But the politically motivated reservation set-up over the years has...
Blood on Turf
The wait is not over yet. Nine years have passed since army’s ‘bad-boy’ Rambo killed four youngsters in broad daylight. Saqib Hussain Mugloo recounts...
Decapitated Justice
After its repeated calls for an independent investigation in mass graves SHRC is decapitated. Shakir Mir spends a day at the commission to see...
Jail tales
Picked up by BSF on suspicion during troubled 90s, Riyaz Ahamd Hajji ended up spending 19 years in torture centres and jails across India....
Maze of Military Justice
In its latest report, human rights watchdog Amnesty International says the continued use of AFSPA has created a vast web that frustrates the idea...
Half A Decade Later, Tufail Mattoo’s Killers Still At Large
Durdana Bhat
SRINAGAR
Today is the 5th death anniversary of Tufail Mattoo—the school boy whose skull was busted open with a tear gas shell inside a...
Alam in Uproar
At the peak of 2010 mass unrest, police put a million rupees booty on his head. When arrested, cops got Rs 25 lakh instead....
Acquitted, A Generation Later
NIA has established that Liyaqat Shah was framed by Delhi Police and has suggested action against a few. But how the government will give...
Justice AK-47
Systemic paralysis during militancy’s amorphous years in 1990s saw the closure of formal courts, ‘encouraging’ people to throng mobile informal courts. Safwat Zargar revisits...
