Day: December 23, 2022

Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with young supporters during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Nuh district of Haryana on Thursday. | Photo Credit: PTI Addressing a gathering at Nuh on the second day of the Haryana leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra on Thursday, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi said they had to set out on this journey since they were not being heard inside Parliament.He also accused the government of finding excuses to stop the Yatra.Speaking at the historic Ghasera village, visited by Mahatama Gandhi on December 19, 1947, to convince the local Meo Muslim population to not migrate to Pakistan, Mr. Gandhi said Congress wanted to speak about the Rafale deal, demonetisation, Goods and Services Tax and the politics of hatred inside Parliament, but the mics were switched off and...

The probe ordered by the Punjab and Haryana High Court into the alleged illegal detention and torture of labour rights activist Shiv Kumar has concluded that he was kept in illegal confinement for one week — January 16-23 last year — and was “badly tortured by the police, causing numerous injuries on various parts of his body, including fractures”.The 29-page report by District and Sessions Judge, Panchkula, Deepak Gupta, the inquiry officer, said that Shiv Kumar was examined as many as five times from January 24, 2021 to February 2, 2021, but none of the doctors of the Sonipat Government Hospital or the doctor deputed in jail performed their duty and “they apparently danced to the tune of the police officials”.Three FIRs registeredShiv Kumar, 24, the district president of Mazdoor Adhik...