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Salwa Judum is illegal, says Supreme Court https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Salwa-Judum-is-illegal-says-Supreme-Court/article13639702.ece December 04, 2021 The ruling by Justice B. Sudershan Reddy and Justice S.S. Nijjar on the writ petition filed by social anthropologist Prof. Nandini Sundar and others - strongly indicted the State for violating Constitutional principles in arming youth who had passed only fifth standard and conferring on them the powers of police.
Judgement: https://main.sci.gov.in/jonew/judis/38160.pdf Given humanity’s collective experience with unchecked power, which becomes its own principle, and its practice its own raison d’etre, resulting in the eventual dehumanization of all the people, the scouring of the earth by the unquenchable thirst for natural resources by imperialist powers, and the horrors of two World Wars, modern constitutionalism posits that no wielder of power should be allowed to claim the right to perpetrate state’s violence against any one, much less its own citizens, unchecked by law, and notions of innate human dignity of every individual.
.The primary task of the State is the provision of security
to all its citizens, without violating human dignity. This
would necessarily imply the undertaking of tasks that
would prevent the emergence of great dissatisfaction, and
disaffection, on account of the manner and mode of
extraction, and distribution, of natural resources and
organization of social action, its benefits and costs.
How Chhattisgarh has stalled a historic judgment https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/how-chhattisgarh-has-stalled-a-historic-judgment/article35137259.ece July 05, 2021
The Salwa Judum judgment was delivered 10 years ago, but nothing has been done to implement it
Ten years on, nothing has been done to implement the judgment. Instead, the State government has merely renamed the SPOs. They are now known as the District Reserve Guard (DRG). Conversations with DRG members have revealed that most of them are captured or surrendered Maoists and are given automatic weaponry as soon as they join the police force. Some of them get one-three months of training, and some not even that. They commit the most excesses against their former fellow villagers, suffer the most casualties in any operation, and are paid much les
Time for SC To Ban Gau Rakshaks? | Mafia Using Religion For Profit? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9yBq8p_P_s Sep 4, 2024
Has time come for the Supreme Court of India to wake up on the Gau Rakshak menace. India is witnessing the rise of an extraconstitutional force under the garb of protecting religion - while everyone has been turning a blind eye to their activities .... they have become a law into themselves.
Aryan Mishra tragic loss is just an indicator of things to come - if the Supreme Court does not step in. After Bulldozer Justice - could we see a stop on Gau Rakshak mafia who are insulting Hindu religion?
‘You don’t chase unknown person for 30 km without doing it earlier,’ says brother of teen shot dead by cow vigilantes https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/you-dont-chase-unknown-person-for-30-km-without-doing-it-earlier-says-brother-of-teen-shot-dead-by-cow-vigilantes-9548977/
Police claim it was the first time the accused chased people for smuggling cows. Ajay disagrees: “You don’t chase an unknown person for 30 km without having done it earlier. They fired twice... broke past barriers. They knew this would be captured by cameras.
https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/workplace/australia-right-to-disconnect-law-workplace-burnout-other-countries-same-law-9537507/ the “right to disconnect,” emphasising that employees should not be penalised for not being online 24/7, especially when they are not being compensated for that time. The law is a significant step towards promoting work-life balance and protecting workers’ well-being.
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