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Thiruvananthapuram: National Human Rights Commission sent to notice to Kerala chief secretary on the basis cof complaint by P Abdul Hameed, state general secretary, Popular Front of India regarding the police atrocities against it.
Abdul Hameed had filed a complaint over the unwarranted statewide raids in the offices of Popular Front. He also complained over the attempts by the police to tarnish the image of the organisation through baseless allegations, under the pretext of investigation into the case in connection with the attack on controversial professor at Moovattupuzha.

17 injured in CRPF, police firing
SRINAGAR/ANANTNAG: The fragile situation in Kashmir worsened further today with three more persons including two teenaged boys getting killed in CRPF and police firing at Amargarh- Sopore and Pattan. The men in uniform also opened fire at Chanapora and Tral.

Seventeen persons, who received bullet wounds in these firing incidents were hospitalized.

NEW DELHI: The CBI on Friday sought the transfer of the trial of the accused in the Sohrabuddin "fake encounter" to a court outside Gujarat, telling the Supreme Court that it needed to investigate people higher than former home minister Amit Shah - a euphemism for chief minister Narendra Modi - in the killing of the alleged gangster.

UNMOG keeps Kashmiris connected with UN
SRINAGAR: It is for the second time since the Amaranth land row agitation that the UN secretary Ban Ki-moon has intervened and issued a statement on the latest situation prevailing in the Kashmir valley. Many here believe that the UN secretary general’s intervention is also the outcome of large number of memoranda he gets from different groups and people through the UN Military Observers Group (UNMOG) office here at Sonawar.

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Banglore: The controversial Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill, 2010, passed by the Bharatiya Janata Party Government amid protests, has been reserved by Governor H.R. Bhardwaj for consideration of the President.

NEW DELHI: The central government has not received any request from Kerala on banning radical Islamic outfit Popular Front of India (PFI), Home Minister P. Chidambaram said here Thursday.

"I've not got anything," Chidambaram told IANS outside parliament, when asked whether the state government had requested the central government to ban the PFI.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Popular Front of India (PFI), the radical Muslim group which is under scanner after a hand-chopping incident in Kerala, has denied role in any act of terror.

Kochi: It’s reported that the headquarters of DySPs in Ernakulam district were functioning as torture centers here. To maintain secrecy of the brutal torture and escape from the eyes of law, the police officers are using their headquarters at Aluva, Moovattupuzha and Perumbavoor to detain and torture people, reported Thejas daily in Kerala.
Police are following bruatl, unscientific and illegal methods to elicit information from the accused and to get false confessions from innocent people.

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan informed the assembly today that there were no such Taliban courts functioning in the state.
He also said that government was also looking into the veracity of media reports about Taliban style courts functioning in the state.