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Venugopal demands caste census, separate quota for OBC women within 33% reservation

Congress MP K.C. Venugopal demands caste census and separate OBC reservation for women in 33% quota. Criticizes BJP govt. for poor record on women safety, cites Unnao, Kathua, Manipur, Hathras incidents. Says Centre allocated only ₹156 cr of ₹848 cr budget for Beti Bachao Beti Padhao. Urges BJP to conduct…

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Uttar Pradesh: 5 killed, over dozen injured after tractor-trolley rams into dumper in Hathras

The police said that the Hathras occupants of the tractor-trolley were pilgrims on their way from Jalesar to Goverdhan. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Hathras case: SC dismisses UP govt's plea against HC order to provide job to victim's family member

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed by the Uttar Pradesh government challenging the Allahabad High Court's order to consider giving a job to a family member of the Hathras victim and to relocate the family from Hathras. Read further on Dynamite News:

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‘If reality, she would have told reporters’: Why Hathras verdict set aside victim’s dying declaration

“If in reality, the incident was caused by those four persons and the victim had been raped, then she would have told the reporters about the accused as well as the rape.”

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Hathras conspiracy case: UP STF arrests PFI member from Kerala

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force on Friday arrested Popular Front of India (PFI) member Kamal KP from Melattur in Kerala’s Malappuram district.

The Times of India

Court drops rape charges in Hathras case. Here’s what lawyers think

A special court in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday acquitted three persons and convicted one in the 2020 Hathras rape and murder case.

Newslaundry

Newslaundry wins two Laadli awards for reportage on Hathras, Yati Narsinghanand

The year is winding down, journalists are looking back at their work, and Newslaundry has received two more accolades for its journalism.

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Uttar Pradesh to ban placing dead bodies on road

The law came into force after the Hathras episode when the victim was cremated by the district officials without the family’s consent

The Hindu

Siddique Kappan's bail plea hearing in PMLA case deferred to September 29

He was arrested while he was on his way to Hathras where a Dalit girl was allegedly raped and later found dead

The Hindu

Journalist Siddique Kappan not to be released from jail until he gets bail in PMLA case: Uttar Pradesh authorities

LUCKNOW: A local court on Monday issued the order for release of Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan who has been lodged in jail since October 2020 after he was arrested on his way to report a rape and murder case in Hathras district. However, Lucknow jail authorities said that Kappan is…

The Times of India

Jailed Indian journalist gets bail almost two years after arrest

Muslim journalist Siddique Kappan arrested while covering gang-rape and killing of Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh

The Guardian - UK

SC gives bail to Siddique Kappan, says ‘every citizen has right to free expression’

NEW DELHI: Almost two years after he was arrested by UP police, while on way to cover the gangrape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit girl in Hathras, and charged under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) for allegedly planning to incite violence, the Supreme Court on Friday granted…

The Times of India

India journalist Siddique Kappan gets bail after nearly two years

Siddique Kappan was arrested in October 2020 when he was on his way to report gang rape and death of a Dalit teenager.

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Supreme Court grants bail to Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan

“Every person has a right to free expression,” Supreme Court said; Kappan has been in custody for nearly two years under the UAPA

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Newslaundry

After forcible cremation of Hathras victim, UP proposes new guidelines for the future

Over 600 days after the UP police forcibly cremated the body of Asha, a Dalit woman in Hathras, the state government has proposed guidelines for such cremations to ensure the maintenance of “law and order”.

Newslaundry

A pamphlet on protest precautions and a PFI ‘nexus’: Why UP is opposing Siddique Kappan’s bail

That Siddique Kappan was carrying a pamphlet on how to protect oneself during a protest – with tips like “wear comfortable clothes” and “drink glucose” – is proof for the Uttar Pradesh government that he was educating himself on “Rioting 101”.

Newslaundry

‘Conspiracy to spread terror’: UP police files affidavit in SC opposing Siddique Kappan’s bail plea

The Uttar Pradesh police has opposed journalist Siddique Kappan's bail plea on grounds that he is purportedly “part of the larger conspiracy...to foment religious discord and spread terror in the country”.

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‘Beaten for knowing Arabic and studying at Jamia’: Siddique Kappan’s wife on his 700 days in jail

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Cab driver, who took journalist Siddique Kappan to Hathras, gets bail after 22 months

Court found that prima facie the allegations against him were not true

Newslaundry

Reporters Without Orders Ep 233: Ramdev’s life and times, Yogi's unfulfilled promises to Hathras rape victim’s kin

Ayush Tiwari is joined by Newslaundry’s Nidhi Suresh and Basant Kumar.

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India at 75 | A look at important Partition literature: Booker-winning Tomb of Sand, Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan, and others

All of these works use compelling metaphors for the state of relations between India and Pakistan

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Siddique Kappan denied bail by Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday rejected the bail plea of Siddique Kappan. The journalist from Kerala is facing charges under the anti-terror law UAPA over an alleged conspiracy related to the Hathras gangrape and murder case.

The Hindu

Class 2 student left locked in classroom in U.P.’s Hathras; 10 school staffers suspended

Teachers and school staff, not noticing the child, locked the school and left

The Times of India

Uttar Pradesh: Day after 6 kanwariyas were mowed down in UP, Hathras SP removed

LUCKNOW: The state government on Sunday removed Hathras superintendent of police Vikas Vaidya after six kanwariyas were mowed down by a truck on Saturday. Commandant of Mirzapur Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC), Devesh Pandey, was made the new district police chief of Hathras.

Dynamite News

UP: 6 Kanwar devotees dead after truck mows down in Hathras

Six people died and one has been seriously injured after six others devotees of Kanwar Yatra were mowed down by a truck around 2.15 am Saturday, near Sadabad Police Station in Hathras. Read more on Dynamite News:

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