Police brutality
- India
Prophet Row: Family of deceased claim they were not part of Ranchi protest
Ranchi: The family members of two persons who succumbed to gunshot wounds during Friday’s protests here against controversial remarks on Prophet Mohammad, have claimed they were not a part of the procession that…
- India
In videos: Police brutality on Muslims protesting remarks against Prophet
Several accounts of police brutality against protestors condemning the remarks on Prophet Muhammad by suspended BJP spokespersons have surfaced on social media. After the protests that erupted in many parts of the…
- India
Prophet remark row: Bulldozers raze houses of violence accused in UP
Police in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur shared videos of municipal teams out with bulldozers under a heavy police presence demolishing parts of the homes of two of the accused arrested for allegedly disturbing…
- Kerala
Kerala: SC/ST Commission registers case against police over atrocities
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala State Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes took a suo moto case against the policemen of Haripad police station on alleged atrocities committed in Alappuzha district’s Champakkada colony .…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: SC man allegedly tortured for destroying BJP flexi by cops
Hyderabad: A Scheduled Caste (SC) man was allegedly beaten all night long and tortured by Keshampet police on Thursday. The youth, who is also a Congress worker, allegedly tore down a flexi…
- India
UP: Elderly woman dies after being allegedly assaulted by police
Firozabad: An elderly woman died after being assaulted by a police team at her home here, her family members alleged on Sunday. They alleged that 60-year-old Radha Devi was “violently shaken” following…
- India
Maharashtra: Cop thrashes worker as shop remains open after hours
In a case of police brutality in Maharashtra, a man was on Sunday thrashed by a police constable for allegedly keeping his shop open till late night. Videos that surfaced on Twitter…
- India
Video: UP cop thrashes man carrying child in his arms, suspended
Kanpur (UP): A Station House Officer (SHO) of the Uttar Pradesh Police was suspended on Friday after a purported video surfaced on social media showing him cane-charging a youth while he was…
- Bangalore
Police brutality: Muslim man thrashed in Bengaluru
In a case of police brutality from Bengaluru, a Muslim was allegedly brutally beaten up by the city police during an interrogation. The man, Tausif, was allegedly tortured for approximately three hours…
- India
UP custodial death: Unidentified policemen charged with FIR
Hyderabad: Days after five policemen were placed under suspension after the reported custodial death of the 22-year-old Muslim boy Altaf on Tuesday night in Uttar Pradesh’s Kasganj, UP Police has now registered…
- India
Assam police brutality: Activist meets kin of 12-year-old victim, says no FIR yet
Hyderabad: About a week ago, during an eviction drive violating court orders in Sipajhar of Assam’s Darrang district, the police shot dead two protestors as they were protesting illegal evictions. Six days…
- India
Indian American Muslims condemns forced evictions and police brutality in Assam
WASHINGTON DC: The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) condemned the violent eviction drive that began on September 20 in Assam, which was aimed at driving mainly Bengali-speaking Muslims out of their homes.…
- India
Leaders react sharply to police brutality in Assam
New Delhi: Leaders have reacted sharply to police brutality during a demolition operation in a minority settlement inhabited for decades in the Sipajhar area of Assam’s Darang district in the name of…
- India
Carrying new Aadhaar in pocket, 12-yr-old Farid fell to bullets in Assam’s eviction drive
Hyderabad: 12-year-old Farid was shot dead by the police in the eviction drive that took place in Assam’s Darrang district. Farid was one among the many individuals accused of being an illegal…
- World
Chauvin could face decadeslong sentence in Floyd’s death
Minneapolis: Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin learns his sentence Friday for murder in George Floyd’ s death, closing a chapter in a case that sparked global outrage and a reckoning on…
