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The Sinister Ways of Chattisgarh Police
Srivastava, Kavita - eSocialSciences - 2008
Since Dr. Sen's trial is disproving the prosecution's case the police is openly trying to fabricate evidence both … inside and outside the court. The police even tried to legitimate Ajay TG's legitimate release against Dr. Sen, hence the …
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Can Institutions be Reformed from Within? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with the Rajasthan Police
Banerjee, Abhijit; Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther - eSocialSciences - 2012
be reformed through incremental administrative change. The police department of the state of Rajasthan, India … collaborated with researchers at US and Indian universities to design and implement four interventions to improve police … performance and the public’s perception of the police in 162 police stations (covering over one-fifth of the State’s police …
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Underground Gun Markets
Cook, Philip J.; Ludwig, Jens; Venkatesh, Sudhir A.; … - eSocialSciences - 2005
dealers, professional thieves, prostitutes, police, public school security guards and teens in the city of Chicago …
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Release Dr. Binayak Sen: Health Human Right and Development Activist--Prisoner of Conscience in Chhatisgarh, 2007-08
Circle, Medico Friend - eSocialSciences - 2008
Chhattisgarh police on 14th May 2007 at Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. Asked by the Superintendent of Police to appear for recording a … statement, he was placed under arrest when he reached the police station. He is currently being held in Raipur Central Jail …
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Police Firing on Adivasis in Gujarat: Report of Fact Finding Committee, PUCL Gujarat
Shah, Ghanshyam - eSocialSciences - 2008
enquire into the facts related to the police firing on the Adivasis demonstration on the February 13, 2008 at Antarsuba …
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Narco Analysis, Torture and Democratic Rights
Jesani, Amar - eSocialSciences - 2008
Narco-analysis was started almost seven years back in India, and was also accompanied by the increased use of lie-detection testing used on criminals. It was not taken up by human-rights organisations until 2007 when radical activists were arrested and subjected to narco-analysis. There are four...
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Issues Related to the Lok Pal Bill
Sanyal, Kaushiki - eSocialSciences - 2011
In January 2011, the government formed a Group of Ministers, chaired by Shri Pranab Mukherjee to suggest measures to tackle corruption, including examination of the proposal of a Lok Pal Bill.
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Police and the Rule of Law: Recent Developments in India
Agarwal, Anurag K - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper examines some of the recent pronouncements of the Supreme Court and other High Courts and tries to analyse them vis-à-vis the understanding of the rule of law in India. [IIMA W.P. No.2014-04-02].
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"I did not ask for it". Sexual Harassment: Impressions from Mumbai
Gartenberg, Indira; Priya, Lakshmi - eSocialSciences - 2011
Sexual harassment is a global issue. In a recent case in Mumbai, two young men, Keenan Santos (24) and Reuben Fernandez (29) were stabbed on 20 Oct 2011 while confronting some unknown men eve-teasing their female friends. Santos and Fernandez had to lose their lives in refusing to accept this...
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Improving governance using IT systems
Shah, Ajay - eSocialSciences - 2005
The main argument of this paper is that in many situations, dicult puzzles of governance can be solved in dramatically new ways using modern IT systems. Nationwide centralised databases, coupled with ubiquitous high-speed Internet access, and pervasive computational power, has put a new set of...
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