Justice

The state government which wastes no opportunity to empathize with the victims of conflict made every effort to maintain the statusquo when it comes...

The state, it seems, can not run out of ideas. The police have suddenly become aware of its sealing powers, and is putting it...

Last summer added scores to the already swelled list of conflict induced disables in Kashmir. In order to understand, how the unfortunate individuals are...

From a day long protest at the peak of militancy in 1991 to the return in sharp public focus in 2013, the Kunan case...

As a deceptive normalcy returns to Kashmir amid separatist-sponsored strikes and government imposed curfews, a lot of reportage is emerging on Afzal Guru case...

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...

At the peak of 2010 mass unrest, police put a million rupees booty on his head. When arrested, cops got Rs 25 lakh instead....

It has been more than 12 years since the victims of Pathribal faked encounter were laid to rest. But their charred bodies, identified after...

Twelve years after a six-year-old baby girl was kidnapped, raped, killed and thrown into a trench, the court awarded capital punishment to the convict....

With the Jammu and Kashmir police closing the case against Major (Retd) Avtar Singh who attained notoriety in the murder of top human rights...

Hiding stick to pave way for the carrot, the government recently announced an amnesty for the first time stone pelters. But there are various...

As the situation crowded the jails across the state, not many could afford to arrange their court battles. It was then a legal firm...