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By Nidhi Jacob Madhya Pradesh is once again in the spotlight for atrocities against the Adivasi community. On July 4, 2023, a video of a man urinating on a tribal person in Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh went viral on social media. Shortly after, on July 8, another footage of an assault of two tribal boys by a group of men in Madhya Pradesh was reported by The Hindu. However, these incidents cannot be seen as isolated cases, but rather stemming from systemic issues, experts told BOOM. Over the decade to 2021, crime rate against the scheduled tribes or adivasis in India have shot up by nearly...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old and unrelated video showing a sniper taking aim from a building rooftop is being shared with the false claim that it is from the recent riots that have broken out in France. BOOM found that the video dates back to at least March 2022, and is not from the ongoing unrest in the country. Nahel M, a 17-year-old teenager of Algerian heritage was shot deadby a police officer at a traffic stop in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on June 27. The boy's death has caused widespread riots in France, resulting in the deployment of 45,000 police personnel, including special forces in vari...
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By Surbhi Sharma In a circular, dated April 11, the Commissioner of Delhi Police has asked the police personnel to use simpler words while registering FIR/chargesheet and avoid using complex Urdu/Persian words like 'Mujrim', 'Ilzaam', 'Intezaam', and 'Dastakhat' among others. The circular, accessed by BOOM, is in accordance with an order from the Delhi High Court in 2019 which stated that the FIR should be in the words of the complainant and overly complex words, that may require the use of a dictionary to understand its meaning should be avoided. According to the 14-page circular, after the D...
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By Arbab Ali Twenty two-year-old Sahidul Islam had gone to drop off his friends at the Aligarh railway station and returned with visible injuries. He alleged that two Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel detained him and his friends for not carrying a platform ticket and beat them up so brutally that their batons broke. Shahidul, student of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), says this was a case of hate crime. While two officers have been suspended, the officials deny that this was a communally targetted attack. What Happened?At around 10:30 PM on 22 June, Shahid left his hostel in Aligarh, ...
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