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Tehelka May 12 , 2007
Yes, that still happens. in democratic, 21st-century India. Ashish Khetan and Harinder Baweja unravel the chilling story of the murder of Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bi by top Gujarat policemen and their bid to cover up the crime

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.

Thiruvananthapuram: National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations (NCHRO) organised secretariat dharna in Kerala, to protest against the unwarranted arrests of human rights activists Adv. N M Siddique and Abdussalam from Kochi. Dharna was inaugurated by writer and social activist Dr. J Devika.

The Kerala CM has accused Popular Front of India leader Nasarudeen Elamaram of Islamising the state. For Tehelka Magazine SHAHINA KK grills the PFI boss on the controversy

Your response to Chief Minister Achuthanandan's claim that PFI's agenda is to turn Kerala into a Muslim majority state?

തിരുവനന്തപുരം: കേരളത്തെ 20 വര്‍ഷത്തിനുള്ളില്‍ മുസ്‌ലിം രാജ്യമാക്കാന്‍ ശ്രമിക്കുന്നുവെന്നും ജനസംഖ്യ വര്‍ധിപ്പിക്കാന്‍ മറ്റു മതസ്ഥരെ പ്രണയത്തിലൂടെ മതം മാറ്റുന്നുവെന്നുമുള്ള മുഖ്യമന്ത്രിയുടെ പരാമര്‍ശം തിരുത്തണമെന്നു പോപുലര്‍ ഫ്രണ്ട്‌. മുസ്‌ലിംകളെക്കുറിച്ചല്ല പോപുലര്‍ ഫ്രണ്ടിനെക്കുറിച്ചാണ്‌ താന്‍ പരാമര്‍ശിച്ചതെന്നു പറയുന്ന മുഖ്യമന്ത്രി, വീണത്‌ വിദ്യയാക്കാന്‍ ശ്രമിക്കുകയാണെന്നു പോപുലര്‍ ഫ്രണ്ട്‌ സംസ്ഥാന പ്രസിഡന്റ്‌ നാസറുദ്ദീന്‍ എളമരം, ജനറല്‍ സെക്രട്ടറി പി അബ്ദുല്‍ ഹമീദ്‌ എന്നിവര്‍ വാര്‍ത്താസമ്മേളനത്തില്‍ പറഞ്ഞു.

തിരുവനന്തപുരം: സംസ്ഥാനത്ത്‌ താലിബാന്‍ കോടതികള്‍ പ്രവര്‍ത്തിക്കുന്നതായി ശ്രദ്ധയില്‍പ്പെട്ടിട്ടില്ലെന്ന്‌ ആഭ്യന്തരമന്ത്രി കോടിയേരി ബാലകൃഷ്‌ണന്‍ നിയമസഭയെ അറിയിച്ചു.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team is likely to seek permission from its headquarters to question Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. According to television reports, the investigating agency may want Modi to answer some
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Ahmedabad: After the arrest of his close aide Amit Shah, it now appears that the CBI will question Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

Shah is in jail on charges of murdering Sohrabuddin Sheikh, a young Muslim man, and his wife, Kauser. The couple was killed in November, 2005, allegedly by the senior-most officers of the Gujarat police.

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.

Kochi: National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations (NCHRO) alleged that there was police conspiracy behind the arrest of human rights activists Adv. N M Siddique and Abdussalam leveling fake charges.