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[122] [123] [124] The complaint against Nath was dismissed in March 2012 by Judge Robert W. Sweet, who ruled that the court lacked jurisdiction in the case. [125] The 22-page order granted Nath's motion to dismiss the claim, with Sweet noting that Sikhs for Justice failed to "serve the summons and its complaints to Nath in an appropriate and ...
[24] [15] According to a later testimony from the police, that fortunately "the riots did not snowball into a communal riot". [15] Eventually the Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP) had to be called in to disperse the crowd and free the policemen trapped inside the station. The KSRP began by lathi charges, proceeded to firing tear gas, then ...
The Justice Vishnu Sahai commission, which made an enquiry into the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots, blamed members of the SP and the BJP for being involved in the violence. The commission also blamed senior police and administrative officials for errors which led to the escalation of the violence.
On 20 March 2018, the Supreme Court of India ruled that no arrests can be made without prior permission and allowed a court to grant an anticipatory bail if it, prima facie, finds the complaint an abuse of the law. [8] The Attorney General of India, on behalf of the Government of India, filed a review petition against the order of the Supreme ...
The former President of India Ram Nath Kovind with Indian Police Service Officers at the Rashtrapathi Bhavan in New Delhi, 2018. Female security personnel at India-Pakistan border. Law enforcement in India is imperative to keep Law and order in the nation. Indian law is enforced by a number of agencies.
Institutionalized riot systems (IRS) is a term invented by professor Paul Brass in 2004 in his book The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India with regards to Indian politics. This term describes the dramatic production of riots, which Brass has divided into three phases: preparation, activation and explanation.
The Jat people are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India. [21] In 2012, the Hindustan Times reported that the Jat people in India were estimated to number around 95.5 million (9.55 crore). [22] In Haryana, they form 30% of the state's population. [23] As of 2016, 7 out of state's 10 chief ministers had been Jats. [24]
The Police Complaints Authority were to be established at the state and district levels following the judgement by the 2006 Supreme Court of India, in the Prakash Singh and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors. AIR 2006 SCC 1 Case, [7] in response to the huge volume of complaints against the police and the endemic lack of accountability. [8] [9]