Promit Guha
Torture, in the form of slow starving. The suffering of unimaginable proportions caused by their very own son. An incident so cruel and inhuman you are bound to wonder if it is true. Yet, it is. An 80-year-old man starved to death after he and his wife were found locked in a room at Mundakayam in Kottayam district on...
The story has remained the same, only the names of the women have changed over the years. Yet no step has been taken against the known poster boy of sexual assault and harassment of Bollywood – Sajid Khan, against whom various women have spoken out time and again but the industry and police have turned a deaf ear too....
A brutal act of planned human cruelty, severe pain, trauma, and finally the light of justice by a stroke of fate. In a shocking incident that is bound to make the reader shudder, a 13-year-old boy named Rishabh was forced to undergo a sex-change operation, forced into prostitution and begging, and then gang-raped for months in Delhi's Geeta Colony...
There is an adage that goes by “Where there us a will, there is a way”, but amidst the pandemic situation, Indian ‘experts’ in the education stream and students seem to have taken the saying to a whole different level with rampant cheating taking place in Home-based GRE examinations. Group effort by a team of experts and the limited...
An incident that is a reminder of the perils that Forest officials face almost on a daily basis, yet brave all the dangers to fulfill their duties. In a petrifying chain of events of a tiger causing menace in human settlements and almost endangering the life of a trained officer – it bears testament to the hardships of the...
A brutal inhuman rape. Correction. Every rape is inhuman. Then, how do we define the rapes the description of which send a shiver down our spines? We cant. There is no word in the vocabulary that is suitable enough to describe the barbaric nature of such crimes. It’s a reminder Nirbhaya once again. The sheer cruelty of the act....
Are all murders equal? Even though in the eyes of law, different kinds of murder carry different punishments, the next question that arises is, can every act of taking a life be considered murder? The Indian Consitution clearly says No. Our Constitution allows Murder in Self-Defence. According to the laws of IPC which are mentioned in Section 103 and...
Open cases lingering for years, unsolved cases, reluctance to solve petty crimes, not enough seriousness or manpower allotted for theft cases all these accusations have tarnished the image of the executive at large. Repeatedly the higher officials in the force and politicians have reflected on the need of the police to improve their image and be in a more...
“All of you killed my father, sir… All of you killed my parents. Now you say I can’t even bury them?” cries the distressed young man in the maroon shirt, as he ferociously slams a garden hoe into the ground. A police officer tries to reason with him, telling him to stop digging. A few people stand around watching...
It can be termed as cold-blooded murder. The conspiracy that took place back in July has been exposed, as the Jammu and Kashmir police charge-sheeted Captain Bhoopendra Singh of Rashtriya Rifles 62 battalion, Tabish Nazir Malik of Chowgam area in Shopian district, and Bilal Ahmed Lone from Pulwama, who had conspired to abduct and stage the ‘encounter’ of three...
