Tag: extortion

Young Kashmiri blown to pieces for tearing posters of renegade

 
/ March 31, 2016

Yusuf, a young man from Kashmir was blown to pieces, tied to a mine and a boulder in a local forest by the Indian Army on 3rd February 1999 without any substaintial proof that he was part of a militant outfit. He was picked up the night before the fateful...

Surviving Domestic Violence

 
/ February 14, 2014

“The first year of my marriage was happy… For the next eight years, grave acts of violence were committed against me by my husband and in laws”, says Shivba Manohar who has, with her two children, left that hellish nightmare behind. Community Correspondent Shanti Yevtikar brings you her story from...

Sand Wars Continued

 
/ June 25, 2010

Organized mafia groups control much of Uttar Pradesh’s economic and commercial activities.

Sand Wars on the Yamuna

 
/ June 1, 2010

On the banks of river Yamuna in Allahabad sand extraction is done on a large scale.