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MUMBAI: The chargesheet filed by the Government Railway Police against the dismissed RPF constable, Chetan Singh, for gunning down four people in a longdistance train in July dwells considerably on a communal speech that he had made aboard the train. Police have produced a list of passengers with their names and addresses who had filmed the speech. The chargesheet even mentions the kind of mobile device...

The recent encounter killing of history-sheeters by the Tamil Nadu police may have passed without much of an uproar, but in the past, such incidents have cast a cloud over the nature of police action.When encounter killings have been reported over the years, the question often asked but seldom answered is, how members of a force meant to catch perpetrators and investigate their crimes turn into...