Claim: A year on, Indian anti-Vedanta protesters say still await justice.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Murder of Swami Lakshmanananda
text: on 1 October 2013, the same court also convicted a Maoist leader from Andhra Pradesh for the same crime. Six days later the same court set free five non-Christians who were being tried for burning of a christian house in the riots following the murder. Sajan George, president of Global Council of Indian Christians alleged that the court is biased against the christian minority. The defence lawyer, S.K. Padhi said that the ruling would be appealed against in the Odisha High Court. Murder of Swami Lakshmanananda Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati and four of his disciples were murdered on August 23, 2008

title: The Calcutta Quran Petition
text: were trying to storm the office of India's High Commission. Other riots followed in Kashmir and Bihar. After the case was closed, the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, during a mass rally in Srinagar, demanded action against Justice Padma Khastgir who permitted the petition to be filed. During this mass rally, one person was killed and others injured. A "hartal" (strike) against the interference in Muslim personal law was observed during which all shops and colleges were closed. On August 31, 1987 Chandmal Chopra was arrested by the police and kept in police custody until September 8 for publishing

title: 1997 Ramabai killings
text: 2011, the protesters who had been arrested for setting the bus on fire were acquitted, with the court finding that they had not been present during the incident. In response to allegations received from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, the government of India issued a statement: Indian documentary film-maker Anand Patwardhan, a friend of Vilas Ghogre, created a documentary based on the incident, entitled "Jai Bhim Comrade". Patwardhan stated that the filming took 14 years because he was waiting for the accused policemen to be jailed, and the residents

title: 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement
text: planned for several days. The police said Ramdev had been informed shortly beforehand that permission to continue his agitation had been cancelled. By that time, over 5000 police officers had been prepared for action. There was an allegation that CCTV footage of the raid was missing. On 6 June, the National Human Rights Commission of India requested that reports of the events be provided within two weeks by the Union Home Secretary, Delhi Chief Secretary and the Delhi City Commissioner of Police. Hazare responded to the events by holding a one-day hunger strike. Protests were held in many parts of

title: Indian People's Tribunal
text: of the Vishva Hindu Parishad. The fax said the tribunal was a group of "leftists, fellow travellers and Hindu baiters". It went on "The inclusion of an NRI well-known for anti-Hindu activities in the US suggests foreign funds from sources bent on destabilising the country". Chatterji alleged that Hindu nationalist activists threatened to rape tribunal members and to parade them naked in the streets. K.K. Usha and fellow tribunal member R.A. Mehta, a former Acting Chief Justice of the High Court of Gujarat, called the incident "shocking, outrageous and highly deplorable". The tribunal conducted its investigation for almost twenty months

title: 29 September 2008 western India bombings
text: has even demanded that there should be a proper inquiry and ATS should come out with an evidence and not talk without any basis. They don't have any proof against any ABVP activist." After the arrest of three Hindus, a Hindu group, Sri Ram Sena (SRS), offered legal assistance to the accused . The SRS said the three accused were being made "political victims" by the Congress to hide its own inadequacies . General secretary Binay Singh said: "The Maharashtra government is raking up the Malegaon blast issue to divert attention from the hooliganism of Raj Thackeray while in the

title: Vedanta Limited
text: matters turned rough one day and the police opened fire on demonstrators. The firing killed 13 people and protesters turned violent, burning vehicles and structures. Residents say the copper smelter is causing environmental damage. Subsequent to the firing, the Tamil Nadu chief minister Palaniswami ordered a judicial inquiry into the shootings but defended the police response. The registered office and corporate office of Vedanta Limited are based in Mumbai. The company has offices in New Delhi, NCR as well as across its operations in the country. Vedanta Limited Vedanta Limited, formerly known as Sesa Sterlite/Sesa Goa Limited, is a mining

title: Waytha Moorthy Ponnusamy
text: Rao because "the prosecution had failed to adhere to Zunaidah's (the judge) instructions on Friday to attach the Tamil transcripts of the speeches to the charge sheet". The movement grew in numbers and on 25 November 2007, approximately 100,000 ethnic Indians joined HINDRAF in a peaceful public rally based on Mahatma Gandhi's non-violent protest to highlight the plight of the marginalised Indian community in Malaysia. The government used tear gas and chemical-laced water at the protestors. Despite their peaceful manner, many participants were arrested by the authorities. Waytha Moorthy left Malaysia on 26 November 2007 to obtain international support for

title: K. K. Usha
text: in Trivandrum. Between January 2005 and October 2006, K. K. Usha headed an enquiry by the Indian People's Tribunal (IPT) to investigate the communal situation in Orissa. Activists from the Sangh Parivar disrupted the final hearing in Bhubaneswar. Angana P. Chatterji, a member of the tribunal, alleged that Hindu nationalist activists threatened to rape tribunal members and to parade them naked in the streets. K. K. Usha and fellow tribunal member R.A. Mehta, a former Acting Chief Justice of the High Court of Gujarat, called the incident "shocking, outrageous and highly deplorable". In December 2011, K. K. Usha was a

title: Movement against Intimidation, Threat and Revenge against Activists
text: a second attack on Sumaira Abdulali and journalist Viju B at Mahad, an attack on Citispace Convenor Nayana Kathpalia in Mumbai, an attack on AGNI Co ordinator Jamesh John in Mumbai, an attack on Citispace Trustee H S D’Lima in Mumbai, the murder of activist Shehla Masood in Bhopal, the murder of Right to Information activist Satish Shetty in Pune, the murder of journalist J Dey in Mumbai, the murder of anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar in Pune. In 2010, following an attack on Citispace Convenor Nayana Kathpalia who had filed public interest litigation in the Bombay High Court and the

title: "Bhagavad Gita As It Is" trial in Russia
text: most important scripture. Similar protest marches were held in New Delhi and Chandigarh. Gopal Krishna Goswami, ISKCON's Governing Body Commissioner for India, said that ISKCON members are poised to intensify their public protests across the globe if their scripture is banned. He said, "I hope the Indian government will be able to pressurize the Russian government and the matter gets solved legally. It's a book of peace and there's nothing extreme in it. Holy scriptures shouldn't be taken to court". On December 21, a highly respected Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband issued a statement signed by its vice-chancellor Abul Qasim

title: Best Bakery case
text: government commitment to ensuring justice to victims of the communal violence in Gujarat." India's National Human Rights Commission described it as a "miscarriage of justice" and, along with other petitioners, argued that the case should be investigated by an independent agency. The Supreme court expressed displeasure at the acquittal. The Gujarat government responded by pointing out many other cases where the guilty were left unpunished. Solicitor General Mukul Rohatgi cited the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 and said many of the accused are still free. Soon after the sessions court judgement, Zaheera and her mother gave interviews to the media stating

title: Vedanta Resources
text: collapsed on 23 September 2009, killing at least 40 workers. Balco and GDCL management have been accused of negligence in the incident. In respect of bauxite mines at Lanjigarh, Orissa, public interest litigations were filed in 2004 by Indian non-government organisations led by the People's Union for Civil Liberties to the supreme court sub-committee regarding the potential environmental impact of the mines. The Ministry of Environment and Forests received reports from expert organisations and has submitted its recommendations to the supreme court. The sub-committee has found "blatant violations" of environmental regulations and grave concerns about the impact of the Niyamgiri

title: Movement against Intimidation, Threat and Revenge against Activists
text: murder of RTI Activist Satish Shetty in Pune for exposing an active land mafia, the Bombay High Court took up suo motu public interest litigation to protect citizens working in the public interest. MITRA intervened in the petition and obtained an order for the legal status of ongoing cases of attack or murder of activists pending with the Police to be placed before the Court. In most cases, no arrests had been made. The Court also ordered the Police to compile a list of activists or citizens under threat and to take action to protect them. Movement against Intimidation, Threat

title: April 2018 caste protests in India
text: was 25.7% in cases of atrocities against SC and 20.8% in cases against ST in 2016, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. On 20 March 2018, the Supreme Court of India ruled that no arrests can be made without prior permission and allowed a court to grant an anticipatory bail if it, prima facie, finds the complaint an abuse of the law. The Attorney General of India, on behalf of the Government of India, filed a review petition against the order of the Supreme Court. The people from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) protested against the Supreme Court

title: Arundhati Roy
text: trial. The BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar criticised Roy for calling convicted terrorist Mohammad Afzal a "prisoner-of-war" and called Arundhati a "prisoner of her own dogma". Afzal was hanged in 2013. In 2003, the Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha, a social movement for Adivasi land rights in Kerala, organised a major land occupation of a piece of land of a former Eucalyptus plantation in the Muthanga Wildlife Reserve, on the border of Kerala and Karnataka. After 48 days, a police force was sent into the area to evict the occupants. One participant of the movement and a policeman were killed, and the

title: Demolition of the Babri Masjid
text: Judge M. S. Liberhan. After 399 sittings over sixteen years, the Commission submitted its 1,029-page report to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 30 June 2009. According to the report, the events of 6 December 1992, in Ayodhya were "neither spontaneous nor unplanned". In March 2015, the Supreme Court of India admitted a petition alleging that, with a BJP government in power, the CBI would not pursue conspiracy charges against senior BJP leaders including L. K. Advani and Rajnath Singh. The Court asked the CBI to explain its delay in filing an appeal. In April 2017, Supreme Court of India

title: 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement
text: adjournment for the day. In Chennai, Mahatma Gandhi's secretary, V. Kalyanam, led the protesters. He said Delhi police commissioner B. K. Gupta said that the police were not keen for Hazare be sent to judicial custody and had been prepared to release him if he had given an undertaking not to break Section 144 and ask his supporters also not to do so. In a message released after his detention, Hazare said this was the beginning of the "second freedom struggle" and he called on people to participate in a "jail bharo" agitation. Hazare on 16 August asked government employees

title: Akshardham Temple attack
text: to three. Later in May 2014, a Supreme Court bench composed of Justices A K Patnaik and Venkate Gopala Gowda acquitted all six persons, including those awarded the death penalty. The Supreme Court slammed the Gujarat Police for the incompetence with which it investigated the case. The bench gave the decision holding that the prosecution failed to establish the guilt of the accused. Shortly after the 14-hour ordeal ended, the police began their investigation. According to Brigadier Raj Seetapathy, the gunmen carried letters in Urdu which affirmed their connection with an organisation called Tehrik-E-Kasas or Movement for Revenge, a previously

title: Suicide of Rohith Vemula
text: the allegation of non-payment of scholarship, citing the delay on "paperwork." At the beginning of August 2015, Vemula and four ASA members protested against the death penalty for Yakub Memon, a convict in 1993 Bombay bombings in which 257 people were killed. They also condemned the ABVP protest on the screening of the documentary "Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai" in Delhi University. On 3 August 2015, he and other ASA activists demonstrated at the Hyderabad campus. In response, ABVP's university unit president, Nandanam Susheel Kumar, called them "goons" on Facebook. The next day, Kumar was taken to hospital and operated for an