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Report Released: A Year After Thoothukudi Burned (English) தூத்துக்குடி நீறுபூத்த ஓராண்டு (தமிழ்) References: Lethargy in CBI Inquiry Comtempt Petition (MD) No. 1662 of 2018 in W.P.(MD) No. 13231 of 2018 Working of the Commission of Inquiry headed by Justice (Retd.)...
THE MAIN REPORT Part I Introduction On May 22, 2018, around noon, media reports started coming in from Thoothukudi (also referred to as Tuticorin), about police firings on those who had gathered at the Thoothukudi District Collectorate to mark the...

The Summer that Shook Thoothukudi - A Brief Look at the People’s Inquest Into The Thoothukudi Police Firing.

A coalition of civil society organisations in Tamil Nadu titled, ‘Coordinating Committee for People’s Inquest into Thoothukudi Police Firing’ organised a People’s Inquest (PI) on June 2-3, 2018 at Thoothukudi and its suburbs, into the targeted killings, arbitrary detentions and...

An NGO Report on the Compliance with the Paris Principles by the National Human Rights Commission of India. Submitted to the International Coordination Committee on National Human Rights Institutions on the 22nd of January 2011 by the All India Network...
Hundreds of fishermen from the Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu are still missing since Cyclone Ockhi ravaged the Arabian Sea coast on November 30, 2017. Even as the cyclone remains etched in the minds of several local fishing families affected...
கன்னியாகுமரி மாவட்டத்தில் 2017ஆம் ஆண்டு நவம்பர் 30 அன்று கடந்த ஒக்கி புயலால் நூற்றுக்கணக்கான மீனவர்கள் ஆழ்கடலில் காணாமல்போனார்கள். இப்புயலின் பாதிப்பின் மூலம் இந்தியாவில் பேரிடர் தடுப்பு நடவடிக்கைகளின் தோல்வியை சுட்டிக்காட்டுகிறது
Chronology of Events in Angammal’s Case (Police Torture) Usilampatti, Madurai

From the 7th April, the media started to carry reports that 20 men from Tamil Nadu had been killed earlier that day in an encounter in the Seshachalam forest in Andhra Pradesh, where, according to the State police, they were...

The NHRC in its ‘guidelines/procedures to be followed in cases of deaths caused in police action’ issued in 2003 and revised in May 2010 clearly state the need for encounter killings by the police to be investigated by an independent...