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First Post March 26, 2020 ANI haheen Bagh protestors on Wednesday wrote a letter to the Supreme Court seeking an investigation into alleged "forcible removal and destruction" of their protest site on 24 March and have sought a direction from the apex court for citizens' rights. File image of anti-CAA protesters at Shaheen Bagh. PTI The Shaheen Bagh protestors wrote the letter through the court-appointed interlocutors, about "forcible and vindictive removal" of the protest site at Shaheen Bagh on the morning of 24 March, 2020, and the subsequent detention of "peaceful, innocent protesters and volunteers". "While we understand the need for the stricter imposition of curfew and enforcement of pertinent restrictions, the ruthless dismantling of the markers of our physical protest, especially the very structures whose placement is in question in a matter that is sub-judice in the SC," the protestors said in the letter. A copy of th...

Business Line July 16, 2019 All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), a farmer organisation affiliated to the CPI-M, said it would organise agitations jointly with like-minded organisations across the country to protest the proposed amendments to forest-related legislations next Monday. AIKS units would organise demonstrations to protest eviction threats faced by tribal and other traditional forest dwelling communities, its General Secretary Hannan Mollah and other leaders told at a press conference here. Millions of Adivasis and other traditional forest dwelling communities are facing the danger of eviction due to the Supreme Court ruling on February 13 this year. If their claims under the Forest Rights Act (FRA) are rejected, then the States have been directed to evict Adivasis and traditional forest dwellers from the forests, they said adding that the apex court which stayed the ruling till July 10 is to hear it on July 24. The protest is also against the proposed amendments to the...

The Wire Decembr 23, 2018 By:Sudarshan Varadhan In the case of the youngest to be killed, a bullet entered the back of 17-year-old J Snowlin's head and exited through her mouth. Twelve of the 13 protesters killed when police opened fire on a demonstration against Vedanta’s copper smelter in Tamil Nadu in May were hit by bullets in the head or chest, and half of those were shot from behind, autopsy reports show. Two others died after bullets pierced the sides of their heads, according to the reports produced by forensic medicine experts from several government hospitals and reviewed by Reuters. They have not been previously published. “The deceased would appear to have died of cardio-pulmonary arrest due to firearm bullet injury to the back of the neck,” forensic medicine experts who examined Snowlin’s body wrote. When Reuters visited her family, they said they had not collected the teenager’s autopsy report. “We are continuing to exist, that’s it,” said he...