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Nearly all 400-odd law students and a number of engineering students of KIIT Bhubaneswar were evacuated from campus last night, following several days of tensions and violent clashes with the engineering college.
"In a series of sting operations spread over 10 days, India Today TV unravelled how several leaders cutting across political lines are ready to stage religious violence for money," reported the Mail , citing the sting by reporters posing as documentary film makers wanting riots to garner publicity for their fictional film.
The Gujarat government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that sacked state cadre IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, accused of hacking the email of its former law officer, could not ask which agency would undertake an investigation and how it would do so.
In the aftermath of the Pune riots and murder of a techie, Partha Pati and Sanjana Sinharoy of Abhay Nevagi and Associates in Pune explain the cases and facts to bear in mind in riot prosecutions.
The Supreme Court has slammed the Uttar Pradesh government for failing to prevent the Muzaffarnagar riots in September 2013.
The Supreme Court said that the Uttar Pradesh government failed to protect the fundamental rights of Muzaffarnagar residents, of whom 60 died in communal riots last year. While the apex court said all those responsible, irrespective of political affiliation, should be arrested, the bench stopped short of ordering a CBI or SIT probe into the Samajwadi government [NDTV]