Tamil Nadu: Most victims were poor and marginalised
Tamil Nadu: Most victims were poor and marginalised
An analysis of custodial deaths in Tamil Nadu in the past four years show the majority of victims belong to Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribes and from poor economic backgrounds. Many were arrested for petty crimes.
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caste of 12 victims could not be verified.
Jeyaraj-Bennix custodial deaths: Activists barred from visiting Sathankulam police station
Executive Director of People’s Watch, Henri Tiphagne, and human rights defender from Chhattisgarh, Himanshu Kumar, were attempting to inspect the Sathankulam police station for CCTV installations when they were denied entry.
Tamil Nadu’s police brutality: Sathankulam and the system that let it happen
Since 2022, 24 custodial deaths have occurred in Tamil Nadu as a direct result of police torture, including that of a 17-year-old in the Chengalpattu juvenile home who endured unimaginable abuse, leaving him with 96 injury marks.
How a summer camp in Tamil Nadu is helping reclaim childhoods lost to police violence
An annual, week-long camp organised jointly by People’s Watch and Manonmani Trust, a Chennai-based NGO, has been running quietly for nearly two decades, in an attempt to let the young ones cherish their childhood at least for a few days every year.
People’s Watch urged the State Human Rights Commission to probe the recent killing of a chain snatcher
by Chennai police and demanded that the police onnel involved be immediately suspended.
When the State praises ‘encounter specialists’ like S Velladurai IPS for their extra-constitutional acts, and spares ‘torture specialists’ like Balvir Singh IPS, police accountability goes for a toss.
Police have gunned down Subash Chandra Bose, a history sheeter, allegedly in an act of self-defence.
Days after the alleged “encounter” of a chain snatcher in Chennai, a history sheeter has been shot dead by police in Madurai. Extrajudicial killings are often described as “encounters” by police. The deceased, identified as Subash Chandra Bose, was killed on the night of March 31. Police have again claimed it an act of self-defence.
HRDA has sought a transfer of the Jagaber Ali murder case to the CB-CID Special Police Department under the supervision of the High Court and compensation for his family.
The Pudukkottai town police have denied permission for a protest organised by Human Rights Defenders’ Alert (HRDA) demanding justice for the murder of whistleblower K Jagaber Ali. The protest, scheduled for Saturday, March 15, was rejected on grounds of location constraints.
Thirumayam police inspector Gunasekaran, who was investigating the murder of activist K Jagaber Ali, has been suspended after accusations of multiple procedural lapses including a 22-hour delay in filing the FIR.
Activist who exposed Rs 840 cr mining scam silenced, family lives in fear
Jagaber Ali, who was an AIADMK functionary in Pudukkottai district in Tamil Nadu, had begun receiving
death threats ever since he complained about illegal mining by five companies in the area.
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