THE LEAFLET BULLETIN

Secret detentions and enforced disappearances strike fear in China

“ONE?does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”

― English writer George Orwell, ‘1984’

Dharamshala was not always a sleepy little tourist town, crowned by the hippie village of Dharamkot, and the interstitial suburb – Mcleod Ganj, that hosts the Tibetan refugee community and government in exile.

AIFF ban: Lack of coherent policy marks Indian sports

FIFA’S?(Fédération internationale de Football Association, or the International Federation of Association Football)?recent ban?of the?All-India Football Federation?(‘AIFF’) is the latest instance of the deep-rooted dysfunctionality at the heart of India’s sports administration. As stakeholders go into damage control mode, it is important to reflect on similar past instances in order to understand which steps work and which don’t, in order to ensure long-term meaningful change.

More than seven years after the Supreme Court-appointed Justice R.M. Lodha Committee presented its?report?to improve the functioning of the?Board of Control for Cricket in India (‘BCCI’), India’s sports governing bodies are still in the news for all the wrong reasons.

Hyderpora encounter: Supreme Court reserves judgment in father’s plea for exhumation of son’s body to perform last rites

THE?Supreme Court on August 29 reserved the judgment on a petition filed by a father seeking exhumation of his son’s dead body to perform last rites at the Wadder Payeen graveyard. The petitioner’s son,?Amir Latief Magrey,?was killed in the?Hyderpora encounter in Srinagar in November last year.?A bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and J.B. Pardiwala heard senior advocate Anand Grover, for the petitioner, and advocate Ardhendumauli?Kumar?Prasad, for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

Grover contended that religious last rites could not be usurped by the State. He submitted that the last rites require, amongst other things, the family of the deceased seeing the mortal remains of the deceased,?offering of a bath to the dead body, recitation of the??alāt al-Janāzah?(funeral prayer) by?the family in the presence of the mortal remains, and the lowering of the body into their grave,?for which exhumation?of the dead?body is necessary.