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Justice

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...

Speedy Justice!

A consumer’s court offers solace to thousands of complainants seeking compensations from fraudster service providers in Kashmir. But the understaffed forum, after raising hopes,...

Silencing Sailan

Terrified by a threat, 22 men, women and children of an extended family huddled together to save their skin in the summer of 1998....

“I think it is insidious what army is trying to do within Kashmir society”

Vrinda Grover, a New Delhi based lawyer, researcher, human and women’s rights activist tells Safwat Zargar that people of India will face consequences for...

Just(Sis)

Romanticism apart – Maqbool Bhat’s family is holding on the last straws that will hopefully carry forward its legacy and name. In last five...