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NEW DELHI: Following the death of 84-year-old tribal rights activist Father Stan Swamy, this newspaper has found that a total of 1,067 people died in custody in the first five months of this year. This data comes from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). In other words, nearly six persons every day have been dying in judicial custody across the country. More than Rs 1.2 crore has been recommended to the next of kin of the deceased in the cases of deaths in judicial custody. As many as 3,003 such cases were pending adjudication before NHRC as on June 6. Besides Rs 1.2 crore, the rights panel also recommended Rs 3 lakh as relief to the family of a juvenile who died in custody. ....
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Extensive CoWin app data analysis by The New Indian Express threw up this interesting phenomenon, but there are no clear answers as to why there is an allocation skew. ....
Express News Service NEW DELHI: Our Constitution does not envisage courts to be silent spectators when constitutional rights of citizens are infringed by executive policies, the Supreme Court said in response to the Centre’s argument that the judiciary did not have to interfere with policy decisions made by the executive. Coming down heavily on the Centre, which had argued that ‘no interference from judicial proceedings is called for when the executive is operating on expert medical and scientific opinion’, the court said: “Judicial review and soliciting constitutional justification for policies formulated by the executive is an essential function, which the courts are entrusted to perform.” ....
Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla emphasized on the need of building up capacities and response reflexes to ensure round the clock preparedness. ....