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Mirolyuba
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China's judiciary embroiled in graft scandals By Robert Saiget (AFP)– 1 day ago BEIJING — "To get rich is glorious" has been the mantra in booming communist China for 30 years, but few have embraced the slogan more vigorously than Wen Qiang, a leading law official in the country's southwest. Wen, a former head of the judiciary and ex-vice police chief in Chongqing, amassed assets valued at over 100 million yuan (14.7 million dollars), but now stands accused of protecting crime bosses in exchange for gifts and kickbacks. The 54-year-old is one of dozens of top judicial officials, including the former vice head of China's top court, ensnared in high-stakes graft scandals despite repeated Communist Party pledges and campaigns to stamp out corruption. President Hu Jintao has said corruption is threatening the legitimacy of the party, and the subject was a major focus of last month's annual meeting of its key central committee, but observers say anti-graft efforts are falling short. "When people like the vice head of the Supreme Court are accepting bribes and engaging in corruption, you can draw your own conclusions over how serious the corruption in China's judiciary is," Beijing lawyer Mo Shaoping told AFP. "Corruption in the judiciary is pretty serious." Wen, who became Chongqing's top judicial official last year after 16 years on the police force, stands accused of protecting an intricate web of businessmen, officials and mobsters in the city of over 30 million people. According to state media, he has been charged with shielding businesses in numerous sectors such as real estate, transportation, gambling and prostitution as well as an illegal loan racket worth 30 billion yuan last year. Up to 2,000 suspects have been placed under investigation in the case. At least two dozen top city officials have been caught up in the crackdown, including the vice president of Chongqing's high court, Zhang Tao. "What is more shocking than Wen Qiang's ties with businessmen and the mafia is the role which government officials at all levels played," the China Youth Daily said in a commentary. "If a string of government officials from top to bottom had not been linked together to form bridges, then Wen Qiang would not have had the power nor the ability to establish such a protection umbrella." .....
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Mirolyuba
Port Moody, Canada
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.... Just after Wen's case came to light, the ruling party expelled Huang Songyou, the disgraced former vice head of China's Supreme People's Court, who was placed under investigation for graft last year. Huang, 51, allegedly helped to resolve a 400-million-yuan real estate case in exchange for a large kickback when he was a top court official in southern Guangdong province in the late 1990s, media reports said. "The big issue for China is corruption -- corruption is related to the fact there is no checks and balances mechanism on power," Joseph Cheng, a political scientist at City University of Hong Kong, told AFP. "This is related to the party wanting to maintain a monopoly on political power and not being ready to adopt restraints on power. So it is a vicious circle that is not allowing them to effectively fight corruption." In its latest efforts to stamp out graft, the ruling party has said it will now require officials to disclose their assets and their family's employment situation, according to state media. Cheng said disclosure would be helpful, but suggested that greater freedom in the press to report on official corruption and more oversight from the nation's rubber-stamp parliament would make anti-graft efforts more effective. Mo, a high-profile Beijing rights lawyer whose firm often handles compensation cases tied to land acquisition, said corruption was rife in both civil and criminal courts, though bribery in civil cases was more common. Top court officials in Beijing as well as Guangdong, Hubei and Liaoning provinces have recently been convicted for taking money from attorneys in exchange for favourable rulings. The former vice head of Beijing's western district court, 58-year-old Guo Shengqui, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for taking bribes and kickbacks from real estate developers and lawyers. The two-year reprieve means that Guo's death penalty could be commuted to life in prison if he behaves in prison and expresses remorse for his crimes. "You can know the law and you can have a clear-cut case, but if the court is really corrupt, then the law does not matter," said Mo.
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Mirolyuba
Port Moody, Canada
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here's part 1 (again): China's judiciary embroiled in graft scandals By Robert Saiget (AFP)– 1 day ago BEIJING — "To get rich is glorious" has been the mantra in booming communist China for 30 years, but few have embraced the slogan more vigorously than Wen Qiang, a leading law official in the country's southwest. Wen, a former head of the judiciary and ex-vice police chief in Chongqing, amassed assets valued at over 100 million yuan (14.7 million dollars), but now stands accused of protecting crime bosses in exchange for gifts and kickbacks. The 54-year-old is one of dozens of top judicial officials, including the former vice head of China's top court, ensnared in high-stakes graft scandals despite repeated Communist Party pledges and campaigns to stamp out corruption. President Hu Jintao has said corruption is threatening the legitimacy of the party, and the subject was a major focus of last month's annual meeting of its key central committee, but observers say anti-graft efforts are falling short. "When people like the vice head of the Supreme Court are accepting bribes and engaging in corruption, you can draw your own conclusions over how serious the corruption in China's judiciary is," Beijing lawyer Mo Shaoping told AFP. "Corruption in the judiciary is pretty serious." Wen, who became Chongqing's top judicial official last year after 16 years on the police force, stands accused of protecting an intricate web of businessmen, officials and mobsters in the city of over 30 million people. According to state media, he has been charged with shielding businesses in numerous sectors such as real estate, transportation, gambling and prostitution as well as an illegal loan racket worth 30 billion yuan last year. Up to 2,000 suspects have been placed under investigation in the case. At least two dozen top city officials have been caught up in the crackdown, including the vice president of Chongqing's high court, Zhang Tao. "What is more shocking than Wen Qiang's ties with businessmen and the mafia is the role which government officials at all levels played," the China Youth Daily said in a commentary. "If a string of government officials from top to bottom had not been linked together to form bridges, then Wen Qiang would not have had the power nor the ability to establish such a protection umbrella."
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Mirolyuba
Port Moody, Canada
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sigh. They won't let me post this piece by quoting as it is copyright material, so here is a link: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/...
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Mirolyuba
Port Moody, Canada
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What a farce the CCP "legal" system is! And it will ALWAYS be a joke under the dictatorship!
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“CCP Troll”
Since: Nov 08
Baoding, Hebei, China
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Mirolyuba wrote: What a farce the CCP "legal" system is! And it will ALWAYS be a joke under the dictatorship! And which "corruption free" system do you think China should adopt? The US, The Australian, The British, The Greek, After all they invented "democracy" (sic), The Iraqie, the Canadian, The Pakistani. or the system where you live, The Lalalaand model?
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Wise Sage
Shenyang, China
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Do you suggest that civil wars, looting, and gangs of drugged-out thugs in neighbourhoods you cannot enter is any better? Tell me: In America, there are certain neighbourhoods in certain cities that you cannot walk around in, lest you get robbed or attacked. China has no such place. China is not perfect, but it was done better than America fighting drugs and lawlessness and this sort of thing. China does not have 13 year old girls getting pregnant all the time or kids making bush fires and getting drunk like in Russia or Canada or America.
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Since: Sep 09
Pune, India
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Wise Sage wrote: China does not have 13 year old girls getting pregnant all the time......... the "period police" make sure they don't. There's a thin line between human rights, and their violation - and govts around the world have a tough time drawing that.
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Since: Sep 09
Pune, India
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Mirolyuba wrote: here's part 1 (again): China's judiciary embroiled in graft scandals By Robert Saiget (AFP)– 1 day ago BEIJING — "To get rich is glorious" has been the mantra in booming communist China for 30 years, but few have embraced the slogan more vigorously than Wen Qiang, a leading law official in the country's southwest. blindObserver, misInforsharing: are you listening?
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Observer
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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GlobeSon wrote: <quoted text> blindObserver, misInforsharing: are you listening? Misinformation or Blind! Question is not whether we are listening or not, is do you understand what you read. I am beginning to enjoy this... How about this one? India Human Right Report 2005 Ruled by the Indian National Congress, Punjab continued to suffer from impunity for human rights violations institutionalised during the counter insurgency operations in 1980s and early 1990s. Although on 11 November 2004, National Human Rights Commission ordered the Punjab Government to pay compensation of Rs 2.72 crores to the kin of 109 persons who had died in custody of the police during the insurgency, the NHRC declined to bring in its ambit all the “police killings” for inquiry and making public various reports of inquiries by Central Bureau of Investigation regarding 2,097 cases referred to it by the Supreme Court for deciding the compensation aspect. The perpetrators responsible for DISAPPEARANCE of human rights activist, Jaswant Singh Kalra remained at large. Although, Punjab has not been facing an internal armed conflict at present, Punjab Police personnel were responsible for gross and widespread human rights violations including arbitrary deprivation of the right to life, enforced disappearance, arbitrary detention, torture etc. Punjab continued to witness large number of CUSTODIAL DEATHS - both in judicial and police custody as a result of torture. The Punjab State Human Rights Commission (PSHRC) registered 87 cases of custodial deaths from 1 January to 30 November 2004. On 10 June 2004, Jaspal Singh, a farmer of border village Dhunna in Amritsar district was killed at Kalra Police station of Tarn Taran district. TORTURE is endemic and a part of the administration of justice. The Punjab Police and the Punjab Vigilance Bureau personnel allegedly harassed the family members of Jaskaran Singh, whose petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court led to the quashing of illegal selection of seven Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), including sons of the Chief Minister’s media advisor B I S Chahal and Ferozepur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Harinder Singh Chahal, on 15 October 2004. Earlier on 8 October 2004, the Vigilance Department registered a false case at Ferozepur, accusing Kheta Singh, the 68-year-old father and a brother of Jaskaran Singh of helping a woman get old-age pension of Rs 200 a month though her husband allegedly owned eight acres land. Vigilance department arrested both and detained them illegally for 10 days. The only action taken by the state government was the transfer of Ferozepur Vigilance SP, Inderjit Singh Randhawa on 25 October 2004. This is despite the fact that Chief Minister Amarinder Singh himself regretted the arrest of Kheta Singh.
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Observer
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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It may take a few days for a very smart Indian with an IQ of 180 to understand all this. Indian rule of law is a farce. What did you says about FREE India? If GlobeSon is born a dalit, I bet he won't here now nor he be even allow to access the internet. Read on... Prisons in Punjab have virtually turned into chambers of TORTURE. Undertrial Rocky of Amritsar Central Security Jail was tattooed “Yeh Chor Hai”(this one is a thief) on the night of 30 June 2004 for demanding food according to the jail manual. A deputy Superintendent and a jail doctor of Jalandar Central Jail inscribed “choorraa”(lower caste) on the back of another under-trial and a Dalit, Malkiat Singh on the night of 2 July 2004 for demanding medical treatment. Relatives of ailing inmates needed to BRIBE the medical staff of the jails to get their kin referred to civil hospital for proper medical treatment. Women continued to face violence. Rano of Bhattian village in Patiala district allegedly became a victim of “HONOR KILLINGS” for eloping with a boy from another community. The family members, especially women of the migrant workers, faced sexual assault and harassment. The Dalits faced all forms of discrimination from the denial of MINIMUM wages to the DENIAL of entry into temples, land grabbing and killings at the hands of the upper castes. Often police personnel are involved in the atrocities. On 3 August 2004, two Dalits identified as Gurjant Singh and Harminder Singh were killed and 15 others were injured when a group of landlords opened INDISCRIMATE firing on a basti (settlement) of the Dalits at Kamalpur village near Dirba in Sangrur district following a QUARREL among the children of the Dalits and the landlords. Children also faced illegal detention and torture both at the hands of the police and the school teachers who routinely award corporal punishment. Three minor children - Sonia (13), Suman (12) and Gagandeep (10), grandchildren of Atam Prakash of Raikot in Ludhiana district were allegedly detained illegally and treated inhumanly at Chheharta police station in Amritsar on 5 and 6 July 2004. Subsequent inquiries by the police found the allegations to be true. But no actions have been taken so far.
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Observer
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Since India is a FREE and DEMOCRATIC country therefore everybody assume she obeys the RULE of Laws. Bullshit; That's an Indian word for TRUTH. Here is a report from Asian Centre for Human Rights. NHRC not complying with Delhi High Court orders - ACHR cries contempt of court - 2 July 2009 New Delhi: Releasing the report,“ACHR’s Action Against Torture and Other Forms of Human Rights Violations in India”, New Delhi based Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today stated that the National Human Rights Commission has not been complying with the orders of the Delhi High Court in an act of contempt of the Court. In the report, ACHR which had filed 531 complaints with the NHRC as of 30 April 2009 shares experiences of 186 complaints adjudicated by the NHRC so far. Asian Centre for Human Rights filed 29 writ petitions before the Delhi High Court against violations of the principles of natural justice by the NHRC. The NHRC, despite being a civil court, does not accord the complainants equal access to the documents submitted by the authorities, equal time and equal opportunity to submit replies. Often, the NHRC adjudicates the complaints without hearing the complainants. On 8 December 2008, the Delhi High Court directed the NHRC to re-open and re-adjudicate the complaints pertaining to the rape of a pregnant Adivasi woman by army personnel in Assam [Writ Petition (Civil) No.9338 of 2007] and torture of Arjun Paswan by Railway Police personnel in Bihar (Writ Petition (Civil) No.9326 of 2007). Seven months have elapsed but the NHRC has failed to re-open the cases. On 8 December 2008, the Delhi High Court also directed the NHRC to provide all relevant documents to ACHR in six writ petitions to enable ACHR to review the proceedings with the liberty to approach the Court if it is unsatisfied. These writ petitions relate to unprovoked use of fire-arms against Kiran Rai, West Bengal[WP(C) No.6065 of 2008]; custodial death of Senthil, Tamil Nadu [WP(C) No.6070 of 2008]; extrajudicial execution of Zangokhopao Kuki, Manipur [Writ Petition (Civil) No.6077 of 2008]; rape and extrajudicial execution of Thangjam Manorama Devi, Manipur [WP(C)No.6082 of 2008], extrajudicial execution of Lourembam Maipak & 2 others, Manipur [WP(C)No.6083 of 2008] and custodial death of Ramesh, Karnataka [WP(C)No.6084 of 2008]. Until today, the NHRC failed to supply the documents pertaining to these cases to the ACHR.
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Observer
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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So Indian Law is a BIGGER JOKE, agreed! NHRC not complying with Delhi High Court orders - ACHR cries CONTEMPT of COURT - 2 July 2009 So what. This is the REAL India GlobeSon is trying to hide. Read on... “This willful disregard of the orders of the Delhi High Court by the NHRC amounts to contempt of the court.”– stated Mr Suhas Chakma, Director of Asian Centre for Human Rights. The most grotesque practice of the NHRC is the failure to consider evidence of human rights violations submitted by the police in the adjudication of the complaints. The Deputy Superintendent of Police, Deogarh, Jharkhand had enclosed the Out Patient Department (OPD) Slip dated 12 December 2007 which stated that victim Ganesh Barnwal, a Public Call Office operator was “unable to walk” as he had “pain in whole body” as a result of torture. However, the NHRC dismissed the complaint (No. 1309/34/3/07-08) on the grounds that ACHR “has not sent the copy of the OPD slip of the hospital and medical treatment given to the victim” which the police had already provided! Though the NHRC had awarded Rs 50.3 lakhs into the 26 complaints filed by Asian Centre for Human Rights, the punishment included only dismissal of three law enforcement personnel from service and arrest of three law enforcement personnel pending trial and departmental action had been taken against 29 law enforcement personnel. “The degree of punishments are very lenient and therefore, does not act as deterrent against offences such as torture and summary executions by the law enforcement personnel”.– stated Mr Chakma.
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Observer
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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I am beginning to enjoy this. More to COME SOON on GlobeSon India. Next: Is the Indian Government "RACIST" in their treatment of refugees? Read on... "Refugees" and "foreigners" are not synonymous. This is classic a case of mixing oranges with apples..... There is no word called "refugees" under Indian laws. The grant of refugee status is an adhoc decision taken after considering the political exigencies rather than examining the actual plight of the victims. While the Sri Lankan Tamils have been granted refugee status, about 80,000 Chins from Burma have been denied refugee status by the government of India, having dismantled their camps at Saiha, Mizoram in 1995.
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Pune, India
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Observer wrote: I am beginning to enjoy this. More to COME SOON on GlobeSon India. . China's judiciary embroiled in graft scandals By Robert Saiget (AFP)– 3 days ago BEIJING — "To get rich is glorious" has been the mantra in booming communist China for 30 years, but few have embraced the slogan more vigorously than Wen Qiang, a leading law official in the country's southwest. Wen, a former head of the judiciary and ex-vice police chief in Chongqing, amassed assets valued at over 100 million yuan (14.7 million dollars), but now stands accused of protecting crime bosses in exchange for gifts and kickbacks. The 54-year-old is one of dozens of top judicial officials, including the former vice head of China's top court, ensnared in high-stakes graft scandals despite repeated Communist Party pledges and campaigns to stamp out corruption. President Hu Jintao has said corruption is threatening the legitimacy of the party, and the subject was a major focus of last month's annual meeting of its key central committee, but observers say anti-graft efforts are falling short. "When people like the vice head of the Supreme Court are accepting bribes and engaging in corruption, you can draw your own conclusions over how serious the corruption in China's judiciary is," Beijing lawyer Mo Shaoping told AFP. "Corruption in the judiciary is pretty serious." Wen, who became Chongqing's top judicial official last year after 16 years on the police force, stands accused of protecting an intricate web of businessmen, officials and mobsters in the city of over 30 million people.
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Pune, India
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According to state media, he has been charged with shielding businesses in numerous sectors such as real estate, transportation, gambling and prostitution as well as an illegal loan racket worth 30 billion yuan last year. Up to 2,000 suspects have been placed under investigation in the case. At least two dozen top city officials have been caught up in the crackdown, including the vice president of Chongqing's high court, Zhang Tao. "What is more shocking than Wen Qiang's ties with businessmen and the mafia is the role which government officials at all levels played," the China Youth Daily said in a commentary. "If a string of government officials from top to bottom had not been linked together to form bridges, then Wen Qiang would not have had the power nor the ability to establish such a protection umbrella." Just after Wen's case came to light, the ruling party expelled Huang Songyou, the disgraced former vice head of China's Supreme People's Court, who was placed under investigation for graft last year. Huang, 51, allegedly helped to resolve a 400-million-yuan real estate case in exchange for a large kickback when he was a top court official in southern Guangdong province in the late 1990s, media reports said. "The big issue for China is corruption -- corruption is related to the fact there is no checks and balances mechanism on power," Joseph Cheng, a political scientist at City University of Hong Kong, told AFP. "This is related to the party wanting to maintain a monopoly on political power and not being ready to adopt restraints on power. So it is a vicious circle that is not allowing them to effectively fight corruption." In its latest efforts to stamp out graft, the ruling party has said it will now require officials to disclose their assets and their family's employment situation, according to state media. Cheng said disclosure would be helpful, but suggested that greater freedom in the press to report on official corruption and more oversight from the nation's rubber-stamp parliament would make anti-graft efforts more effective. Mo, a high-profile Beijing rights lawyer whose firm often handles compensation cases tied to land acquisition, said corruption was rife in both civil and criminal courts, though bribery in civil cases was more common. Top court officials in Beijing as well as Guangdong, Hubei and Liaoning provinces have recently been convicted for taking money from attorneys in exchange for favourable rulings. The former vice head of Beijing's western district court, 58-year-old Guo Shengqui, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for taking bribes and kickbacks from real estate developers and lawyers. The two-year reprieve means that Guo's death penalty could be commuted to life in prison if he behaves in prison and expresses remorse for his crimes. "You can know the law and you can have a clear-cut case, but if the court is really corrupt, then the law does not matter," said Mo.
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Observer
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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GlobeSon wrote: <quoted text> China's judiciary embroiled in graft scandals By Robert Saiget (AFP)– 3 days ago BEb of businessmen, officials and mobsters in the city of over 30 million people. Get something original and not copy from another nuts Mirolyuba. Indiaman GlobeSon is COPYCAT! Ha Ha Ha HA!!!
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Observer
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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You Indiaman GlobeSon is just great. I have tons of Indian articles to post here. COMING SOON. Apart from drinking lots and lots of COW URINE, you also fart a lot of BULLSHITS. No wonder COWS are so sacred to you! Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!
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Observer
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Everyone of them NEW and ORIGINAL here unlike an Indiaman copycat here who post other Topix Member article here without his consent. What a jerk? Does DEMOCRATIC INDIA respects Human Right? Is Democratic India as FREE as Bullshit King GlobeSon claims? He is not blind, he knew what going on but he lies because of his inferiority complex. Atrocities in India. In 2006, Andhra Pradesh ranked third in the atrocities against TRIBALS. According to the NCRB, 793 cases of crimes committed against the tribals were reported from Andhra Pradesh, representing 13.7% of total such cases in India. These included eight cases killings, 60 cases of rape, four cases of abduction, two cases of arson, 12 cases registered under the Protection of Civil Rights Act of 1955 and 298 cases registered under SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act of 1989, among others. The rate for filing charge-sheets for crimes committed against the tribals was 95.1% during 2006 but the conviction rate was merely 13.4% during the same year. Out of total 314 cases in which trials were completed, only in 42 cases the accused were convicted. Trial in 800 cases of crimes committed against the tribals was pending in the courts at the end of 2006. Many villages in Andhra Pradesh have not been recognized as tribal areas for the inclusion in the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution of India despite being tribal-majority villages. Due to the non-inclusion of tribal dominated villages under the Fifth Schedule, nearly 200,000 Adivasis spread over 805 villages in nine districts of Andhra Pradesh do not enjoy the Constitutional protection.
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Since: Sep 09
Pune, India
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Poor Observer...grounded at his own game. haa haa... spend the rest of your life posting crap here, who cares. haa haa
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