Vineet Upadhyay
40 years on, anti-Sikh riot victims are still waiting for justice
A commission had been formed, special investigation teams had been set up and retrials had been done. But the wheels of justice continue to grind slowly in the 1984 riot cases
How NDA's Gopal Kanda was acquitted in suicide case
65 witnesses, five chargesheets – yet former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda was acquitted by the court on the charge of abetting the suicide of ex-airhostess Geetika Sharma. Ironically, both Sharma and Kanda had witnessed a meteoric rise; sadly, Sharma's flight was cut short abruptly
Why SC set three rapist-murderers free
10 years ago when a 19-year-old Delhi woman was found gang-raped and murdered in the fields of Haryana, it was described as a "rarest of rare" case. However, the apex court set the men free, saying there was no "cogent, clinching and clear evidence" that they had committed the crime
Second-worst in 16 yrs, fires destroy 2,521ha forest cover in Uttarakhand
Large swathes of jungles devoured, but top officials have no authority, innovations have failed and infrastructure remains woefully inadequate
