Karnataka state complicity in violence against minorities

(A report on the attacks on minorities and their places of worship in Karnataka)
Conducted for People’s Union for Civil Liberties,South Kanara And Transparency International India, Karnataka Chapter

March 2011

By Justice Michael F. Saldanha, Retired Judge, Karnataka High Court. President, The Catholic Association of South Kanara. Chairman, Transparency International India, Karnataka Chapter.

"The findings are extremely damaging to the Politicians, the State Government and the Bureaucracy but the principle responsibility for the violence, and the total breakdown of the law and order situation has been ascribed to the police and to the Courts which have let down the citizens by refusing to render Justice, by supporting the custodial terrorism and wrongfully upholding every illegal detention and the worst form of infringements of human rights."

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