More than 250 experts, scientists and government delegates from Tiger range States and elsewhere have called for immediate action to save wild Tigers, citing the urgent need for increased protection against Tiger poaching and trafficking in Tiger parts.There are only about 3,200 tigers left in the wild, and Tiger populations are declining in the face of massive poaching for illegal wildlife trade, habitat loss and fragmentation, and conflict with people.The recommendationsfor implementing a resolution relating to Tigers in the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES), and to avoid financing development projects that adversely affect critical Tiger habitats.
Two Tibetans and one Nepali have been convicted in a case involving a landmark seizure of a huge number of leopard and otter skins in Delhi. The trio were arrested in April 2005 with 45 leopard and 15 otter skins. They are the first Tibetans in Exile to be convicted of a wildlife crime in India.
The Delhi police, working on information provided by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), started watching the Tibetan Camp at Majnu Ka Tilla in old Delhi and were able to apprehend the trio red-handed.
Coincidentally, this happened on the very day His Holiness the Dalai Lama launched the anti-wildlife trade campaign of the Care for the Wild International and WTI with the statement that 'the law of the land has to prevail'.
During the investigation the accused had disclosed that they were working for a person called Tchhwang Tashi Tsering, a notorious wildlife trader from Nepal. He paid them 1,000 Rps. each to store the skins and transport them to Nepal. This seizure is one of the largest in recent past hopefully will go a long way in dissuading trafficking in illegal wildlife articles. The link to this site is http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/india-crime971.html.
VIOLENT CRIME IN AGRA.
People set a truck on fire during a protest in the northern Indian city of Agra in this August 29, 2007 file photo. A spate of riots involving arson, beatings and even the Taj Mahal's brief closure has led to worries a globalising India is struggling to cope with its underbelly of police graft, economic disparity and caste tension. Even for a nation hardened to a daily media diet of graphic crimes and scandals, India has been awash in the last month with reports of mob violence that has spawned headlines, editorials and warnings from police, politicians and sociologists. Link to this site is http://www.daylife.com/photo.com‘Save Darfur’ campaign GENOCIDAL CRIME.
the International Criminal Court (ICC), issued an arrest warrant for current President of Sudan, Omer Hassan Al-Bashir. Al-Bashir has been charged with five counts of crimes against humanity: murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture and rape. He also faces two counts of war crimes. The ICC may be growing its first tooth.
Behind the warrant were the many groups that have tirelessly worked to bring global attention to the matter. The ‘Save Darfur’ campaign has been extremely successful example in rallying public support, beginning in churches and university campuses, to influence the public dialogue and bring pressure upon public officials. Through organizing local events, but aiming to influence public opinion on a global level, the campaign is a model in their use of new media, internet, and public rallies and theatre to bring attention to the genocide and plight of a people. While I am in admiration of the campaigns strategies and efforts, it is still worthwhile to ponder on global culpability in allowing such genocides to continue to occur. India has long supported its economic interests despite worldwide attention about the ongoing genocide in Darfur. India’s oil flagship ONGC Videsh Limited is operation a producing oil field in Southern Sudan and is seeking to expand its efforts. It is these oil fields that are part of the reasoning that fuels the ethnic cleansing of Darfur and it is largely oil revenues that are used to purchase the weapons used for the extermination.Just as the ‘Save Darfur’ campaign has a special section calling for an end to China’s support, we should press them for something similar on India. Ending and bringing accountability of India’s support to the Darfur genocide could be an umbrella bringing various South Asian human rights activists in greater contact with one anotehr and with other global human rights movements. Link to see more http://thelangarhall.com/india/indias-role-in-darfur-not-just-china-and-al-bashir-in-sudan/.
EVE TEASING - A BANE FOR WOMEN, A CRIME AGANIST WOMEN.
Increasing number of eve teasing in urban places in India compelled the local authorities to take a serious look into the problem. The growing instances of the murders, of women for rejecting the love of the man had rocked the nation and now the serious thought is given on the reasons for these crimes.
The expression “eve teasing” is Indian origin, the word is not found in the dictionaries.As per the popular idea the expression eve teasing is a euphemistic in post-colonial India and refers largely to sexual harassment of women in public places, where a women is an “eve “ temptress who provoke men into states of sexual titillation. This popular perception of sexual harassment posits the phenomena as a joke where women are both a tease and deserve to be teased.
Growing incidents like a bike pulling up at college bus stop and the man on the bike shouting lewdly at a college girl, come with me –Rs 300 for night; a car loaded with men pulls out of a driveway of a market shouts at a woman- do you need a ride-we will take you where ever you want and pay for it; the woman gets humiliated and outraged. The laughing and passing lewd remarks of an eve teaser can leave a permanent psychological mark on a woman.
Studies show that 32 percent of the eve teasers are students, 35 percent are anti-socials while the 33 percent are middle-aged men.
An increasingly large number of college going girls and other women taking public transportation in all metropolitan cities in India have resorted to carrying pins, pen-knives and even daggers as a deterrent. Others have taken self-defense classes and don’t hesitate to hit.
In India, every 51minutes a woman is sexually harassed; every 21 minutes one woman is molested. Eve teasing is something that a woman has to contend with everyday. So what is it with Indian men and eve teasing? Is it the frustration of sex or just another mode of fun?. It’s a real shame that in spite of the amount of development happening all around the world, the so called “civilized world” behaves in an “uncivilized manner” with the fairer sex. Cannot the Government or the law makers take real stringent steps against these crimes? Just penning down rules will not help. What is required is real action.Link to this site http://somshuvra.instablogs.com/entry/eve-teasing-a-bane-for-women-a-crime-against-women.
SOCIAL CRIMES/ EVILS PRELEVENT IN INDIA.
The top list are as follows:
1.Dowry
2. Poverty
3. Gender Inequality
4. Drugs
5. Human Inequality
6. Child Labour
7. Prostitution
CHILD LABOUR
Child labour, or child labor, is the employment of children at regular and sustained labour. This practice is considered exploitative by many countries and international organizations. Child labour was utilized to varying extents through most of history, but entered public dispute with the beginning of universal schooling, with changes in working conditions during industrialization, and with the emergence of the concepts of workers' and children's rights. Child labour is still common in some places where the school leaving age is lower.
Child labour is common in some parts of the world, and can be factory work, mining, prostitution, quarrying, agriculture, helping in the parents' business, having one's
own small business (for example selling food), or doing odd jobs. Some children work as guides for tourists, sometimes combined with bringing in business for shops and restaurants (where they may also work as waiters). Other children are forced to do tedious and repetitive jobs such as: assembling boxes, polishing shoes, stocking a store's products, or cleaning. However, rather than in factories and sweatshops, most child labour occurs in the informal sector, "selling many things on the streets, at work in agriculture or hidden away in houses—far from the reach of official labour inspectors and from media scrutiny." And all the work that they did was done in all types of weather; and was also done for minimal pay.
According to UNICEF, there are an estimated 158 million children aged 5 to 14 in child labour worldwide, excluding child domestic labour.
The World Bank further estimates that a third of the global poor now reside in India.Income inequality in India is increasing. On the other hand, the Planning Commission of India uses its own criteria and has estimated that 27.5% of the population was living below the poverty line in 2004–2005, down from 51.3% in 1977–1978, and 36% in 1993-1994. The source for this was the 61st round of the National Sample Survey (NSS) and the criterion used was monthly per capita consumption expenditure below Rs. 356.35 for rural areas and Rs. 538.60 for urban areas. 75% of the poor are in rural areas, most of them are daily wagers, self-employed householders and landless laborers.
Although Indian economy has grown steadily over the last two decades, its growth has been uneven when comparing different social groups, economic groups, geographic regions, and rural and urban areas. Between 1999 and 2008, the annualized growth rates for Gujarat (8.8%), Haryana (8.7%), or Delhi (7.4%) were much higher than for Bihar (5.1%), Uttar Pradesh (4.4%), or Madhya Pradesh (3.5%). Poverty rates in rural Orissa (43%) and rural Bihar (41%) are among the world's most extreme.
India has a higher rate of malnutrition among children under the age of three (46% in year 2007) than any other country in the world.
Despite significant economic progress, 1/4 of the nation's population earns less than the government-specified poverty threshold of $0.40/day. Official figures estimate that 27.5% of Indians lived below the national poverty line in 2004-2005. A 2007 report by the state-run National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) found that 25% of Indians, or 236 million people, lived on less than 20 rupees per day with most working in "informal labour sector with no job or social security, living in abject poverty.
DOWRY.
A dowry (also known as trousseau or torture) is the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her new husband. Compare bride price, which is paid to the bride's parents, and dower, which is property settled on the bride herself by the groom at the time of marriage. The same culture may simultaneously practice both dowry and bride price. The dowry is an ancient custom, and its existence may well predate records of it.
It is described in the oldest records, such as the Code of Hammurabi as a pre-existing custom, prescribing only regulations for how it was to be handled and also included regulations for a bride price. If a woman died without sons, her husband had to refund the dowry but could deduct the value of the bride price; the dowry would normally have been the larger of the sums. It marks the first record of long-lasting customs, such as the wife being entitled to her dowry at her husband's death as part of her dower, her dowry being inheritable only by her own children, not by her husband's children by other women, and a woman not being entitled to a (subsequent) inheritance if her father had provided her dowry in marriage.
One of the basic functions of a dowry has been to serve as a form of protection for the wife against the very real possibility of ill treatment by her husband and his family.[citation needed] In other words, the dowry provides an incentive to the husband not to harm the wife.
It is one of the major Social Crime prevalent in India. Sometimes due to lack of dowry the woman becomes a victim of dire consequence. Different cases related to dowry comes up every day in the news and papers. We must all strive to put an end to these evils. These acts always comes in between social progress and development. Though dowry is prevalent in other countries too, the influence is very little compared to India.
Link to this site is:http://socialcrimeinindia.blogspot.com.
India's crimes of 1984 began with its assault on, and the massacres at, the Golden Temple and dozens of other gurdwaras across India in the first week of June 1984, and continued with the nationwide government-sponsored pogroms of November 1984. In many ways, the crimes still continue, not just in the cover-up and the sheltering of the criminals, but in actual outrages by the government and its minions to date.
CYBER LAW AND CYBER CRIMES IN INDIA.
CYBER LAW is seen as an essential component of criminal justice system all over the world. The same applies to cyber law of India as well. In the Indian context, the Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act, 2000) is the cyber law of India. It is the exclusive law in this regard and is under the process of amendments.India has done a good job by enacting a cyber law. It is the 12th country of the world having a cyber law. It covers areas like e-governance, e-commerce, cyber contraventions and cyber offences. However, some critics and cyber law experts have questioned the strength of IT Act, 2000. It would be prudent to analyse the exact position that applies to the Indian cyber law.A crucial truth that India failed to appreciate is that e-governance in India is useless till we are capable of securing it as well. Without the crucial capabilities in the fields of cyber security and cyber forensics, India is heading towards a big trouble. Even the basic ’e-mail tracking’ procedures sometimes pose as a big challenge before the law enforcement agencies in India. Interestingly, some of the legal experts have shown their support for prosecuting owners of e-mail addresses and Internet Protocol addresses relying upon ’common law principles’ not knowing exactly the nature of the Internet. Link :http://www.merinews.com/article/cyber-law-and-cyber-crimes-in-india/139448.shtml.
The number of crimes committed against children is on the increase in Kerala, a trend which Social Welfare Department (SWD) officials now consider as "alarming."
The department is trying to combat the trend by putting in place a system for giving adequate care and protection to children who find themselves in crime-related distress. According to Police Department figures, as many as 361 children became victims of crime in the State last year. Of this 102 children were murdered, 159 raped and 74 reported kidnapped or abducted. There were 20 cases of procurement of minor girls, two cases of infanticide and one case registered under the Child Marriage Restraint Act.
In 2002, 240 cases of crime against children were reported. Between 2002 and 2004 there has been a nearly 50 per cent increase in crimes committed against children in the State. The highest increase was seen in rape cases. There were 64 rape cases in 2001, 148 in 2003 and 159 in 2004. The number of cases registered on the charge of procuring minor girls increased from four in 2001 to 20 in 2004. Link : www.hindu.com.
The primary job of police is to ensure law and order. If anyone violates law, police is supposed to take action. Hell, even when police have the suspicion of violation of law, they are supposed to take action. But when police become so openly biased, everyone looses trust and it is the straight route to hell.
Courageous and independent police officers are becoming extinct in Kerala. Now if someone tries to be a good police officer, we have the human rights commission to harass them.
Kerala to ban mobile phones in schools.Cyber crimes using mobile phones are on a rise in the state. Most of the cases pertained to threatening women, sending obscene messages and MMS, and clicking photographs of women without their permission.A FEW days back, the Kerala government had said that it would ban the use of the mobile phones in all schools throughout the state. The government gave this statement as a result of increasing instances of misuse of mobile phones in classrooms.
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