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Monday, February 12, 2007

29 killed, 52,027 held in one month of emergency:
Odhikar , New Age, 12 February

Staff Correspondent

Twenty-nine people were killed by law-enforcing agencies and 52,027 were arrested in the first month of emergency, declared on January 12, said a report of human rights coalition Odhikar published on Sunday.
Eleven of the 29 people were killed in connection with the Rapid Action Battalion, nine with the police, six with the army and three with the joint forces, the report said.
Ten were killed in the ‘crossfire’ of the associates of the crime suspects and the Rapid Action Battalion and four in the ‘crossfire’ of the police. More....

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