Is the FIR No.79/06 filed u/ss 124-A and 153-A of the Ranbir Penal Code (RPC) in Nawabad police station in Jammu, on 09.6.2006, against Shri Vinay Katiyar & Shri Sahib Singh Verma, maintainable in Law? After the recent massacre of 30 Hindus in Doda, the State President of the BJP--accompanied by, inter alia, the senior party leader Shri Sahib Singh Verma, toured the affected areas. They found that the main grouse of the citizens there was:- “Some of us have been inducted into the Villa...

The judicial records, police diaries, the statements made before the TV-Channels and the News-prints taken from the official website of Doordarshan will support my analysis. A copy of the same is with Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee's Office, too. The police worked overtime—has even filed an Application on a Sunday. As apprehended, one of those 9 persons--who were allegedly detained illegally, is now being made to make a statement upon oath before a Magistrate, WHEREAS the normal practice is th...

Mr. Adarsh Sein Anand wrote a Doctoral Thesis on the controversial subject of Jammu & Kashmir (J & K, for short), the Thesis was approved by a prestigious University in the United Kingdom and a Doctoral degree was conferred upon him. Dr. Anand was later appointed as a Judge of the High Court of J & K. He wrote a book titled ‘Constitution of Jammu & Kashmir--Its Development & Comments’ (Universal Law Publishing, New Delhi), the same was largely based on the said Thesis. The interesting part...