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Mahasweta Devi: A hundred years of resistance

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Mahasweta Devi (HT Photo)
Updated on May 07, 2026 04:29 pm IST

Badlapur 'encounter' case: HC slams SIT for no FIR against five cops; 'very sorry state of affairs'

Badlapur 'encounter' case: HC slams SIT for no FIR against five cops; 'very sorry state of affairs'
Updated on Oct 06, 2025 07:18 pm IST

No need for separate FIR against cops involved in Shinde’s encounter, state tells HC

No need for separate FIR against cops involved in Shinde’s encounter, state tells HC
Published on Mar 13, 2025 08:50 am IST

No basis for FIR against cops in Badlapur sexual assault encounter: State to HC

Akshay Shinde, 24, was employed as a cleaner in the school, and was arrested on August 16, 2024
Published on Mar 06, 2025 08:14 am IST

Akshay Shinde encounter: HC raps Thane court for keeping magisterial report on hold

Mumbai, India – Sep 25, 2024: Badlapur sexual assault accused Akshay Shinde's father Anna Shinde and mother outside High Court that it appears from the record that Akshay Shinde was shot dead at point-blank range, in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday, Sept 25, 2024. (Photo by Bhushan Koyande/HT Photo)
Published on Feb 28, 2025 08:14 am IST

Ex-Maoist calls Gowda’s killing ‘foul’, seeks justice

Security personnel during a combing operation in Kabbinale forest area of in Udupi district in Karnataka. (PTI)
Updated on Nov 21, 2024 06:32 am IST

Badlapur encounter: BJP's ‘Balatkari bachao alliance’ attack on INDIA bloc

Akshay Shinde, the arrested accused in the Badlapur minor girl rape case, died in an encounter with the police. (Praful Gangurde /HT Photo)
Updated on Sept 24, 2024 05:51 pm IST

Who is ‘encounter specialist’ Pradeep Sharma?

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While serving as a law enforcement officer, Pradeep Sharma has also been on the wrong side of the law.
Updated on Aug 26, 2023 09:15 pm IST

Minister lauds encounter killing of Atiq Ahmad's son: ‘Jungle raj cannot…’

Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar.
Published on Apr 13, 2023 08:59 pm IST

Gangster accused in 5 murder cases killed in encounter with STF in Noida

Superintendent of Police (STF Meerut Zone) Kuldeep Narayan said Gangster Kapil had around three dozen criminal cases against him.
Published on Jan 02, 2023 04:00 pm IST

Time has come for encounter killing: Minister on BJYM leader’s murder

Karnataka Minister CN Ashwath Narayan.
Published on Jul 29, 2022 10:01 pm IST

J&K HC orders 5L aid to kin of man killed in Hyderpora encounter

An encounter took place in Hyderpora area of Srinagar on November 15. (PTI)
Updated on Jul 02, 2022 03:12 am IST

In encounter, Ghaziabad police kill two alleged criminals

Police said both the suspects were involved in about 52 crimes, which include extortion, attempt to murder and murders. (iStock)
Published on May 29, 2022 02:40 am IST

Hyderpora encounter: HC orders J&K admin to exhume third body

The J&K high court asserted that the “apprehension of law and order getting vitiated” because of the exhumation at this point in time appears to be illusory. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Published on May 28, 2022 12:42 am IST

Hyderabad encounter: Kin of deceased suspects welcome report, hope for justice

)olice at the site of an alleged encounter, where four accused in the rape and murder of a veterinary were shot dead, on the outskirts of Hyderabad in 2019. (PTI)
Updated on May 21, 2022 01:22 am IST

Hyderabad encounter: Panel points to discrepancies in police claim

Police at the site of the encounter, where four accused in the rape and murder of a veterinary were shot dead, on the outskirts of Hyderabad in 2019. (PTI)
Updated on May 21, 2022 01:16 am IST

6 Maoists killed in encounter on Chhattisgarh-Telangana border

Six Maoists were killed in an encounter with security forces in the Chhattisgarh-Telangana border.
Published on Dec 27, 2021 11:52 am IST

Hyderpora encounter: Mehbooba Mufti says her stir against killing of innocents

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti along with party workers stage a protest demanding a probe in the Hyderpora encounter on Wednesday.
Published on Nov 17, 2021 04:16 pm IST

Singhvi moves SC for mechanism to probe encounter killings, custodial deaths

Senior Advocate and Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi moved the application as part of the landmark case of DK Basu vs. State of West Bengal in which the Supreme Court has from time to time issued directions for police reforms.
Updated on Jul 13, 2020 11:48 pm IST

Will move Supreme Court over bail to 6 accused: Tabrez Ansari’s widow

The six—Bhimsen Mandal, Chamu Nayak, Mahesh Mahali, Satyanarayan Nayak, Madan Nayak and Vikram Mandal—have been in jail since June 25.
Updated on Dec 12, 2019 06:19 am IST

Why rule of law and due process are sacrosanct | HT Editorial

What is more worrying is the reaction by politicians and the public, who lauded the killing and heaped accolades on the police on the grounds that justice had been served
Updated on Dec 08, 2019 05:56 pm IST

‘Justice must never take the form of revenge’: CJI Bobde

President Ram Nath Kovind with Chief Justice SA Bobde in Jodhpur on Saturday.
Updated on Dec 08, 2019 06:46 am IST

Kin of other victims laud police action in Telangana

People celebrate the encounter killing of the accused in Telangana rape-murder case in Shadnagar, Telangana, on Friday.
Updated on Dec 06, 2019 11:32 pm IST

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Published on Dec 06, 2019 11:18 pm IST

‘Premeditated probe’: Judge’s brutal takedown of CBI in Sohrabuddin case

The entire probe of the purported fake encounter killing of gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his suspected lieutenant Tulsiram Prajapati and murder of Sheikh’s wife, Kausar Bi, was premeditate and politically motivated, said CBI judge
Published on Dec 28, 2018 11:56 pm IST

Just days before retirement, a CBI judge’s last verdict

The verdict acquitting all remaining 22 accused in the alleged encounter killings of gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh, was the last judgement in the career of special CBI judge Sunil Jagmohan Sharma.
Published on Dec 22, 2018 08:19 am IST