Sabrang India

Parade of Public Shaming: How Rajasthan police’s illegal “arrest rituals” replace due process with public defilement

CJP Team - February 3, 2026

In open defiance of law, Supreme Court guidelines, and even their own DGP’s orders, Rajasthan Police have normalised the public parading of accused and suspects, turning due process into a degrading public spectacle—an illegality repeated through 2025 with the state’s top police office remaining silent

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When Some Titans Of Indian Media Crawled On All Fours, Like Ex-Prince Andrew, To Cover Up Or Bury The Indian Links in Epstein Files

R. Rajagopal - February 3, 2026

All early birds need not catch the worm. The E-paper of The Indian Express is among the earliest to be uploaded every day. So...

Communal Organisations

How defending a 70-year-old Muslim shopkeeper triggered FIRs, highway blockades, and a law-and-order crisis in Uttarakhand

sabrangindia - February 2, 2026

What began as a local intervention against alleged intimidation over a shop’s name spiralled into right-wing mobilisation, multiple FIRs, and a national debate on selective policing, free speech, and communal harmony in Kotdwar

Rights

Hearing in batch of CJP-led petitions challenging state Anti-Conversion laws defers in SC; Interim relief applications pending since April 2025

CJP Team - February 2, 2026

Petitions pending since 2020 challenge the constitutional validity of conversion-regulating laws enacted by nine States; next hearing scheduled for February 3, 2026

India

Ajit Pawar’s death and the deprivation of everyday connectivity & transport

Vidyadhar Date - February 2, 2026

The death of Ajit Pawar, Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister, in a crash on the airfield of his hometown Baramati in Pune district on January...

Communalism

Rajasthan: Gogamedi, a Rajput-Muslim shrine and the politics of communal capture

Adityakrishna Singh Deora - February 2, 2026

The onslaught on the syncretic Gogamedi shrine, that has, for 10 centuries (1,000 years) attracted Hindu and Muslim devotees alike—that too launched by an outside Brahmin influencer --is nothing but a hegemonizing project of appropriation and erasure

Communalism

Hate Politics and the Message of Hazrat Bulleh Shah

Sahil Razvi - February 2, 2026

Uttarakhand is increasingly emerging as a hotspot of hate crimes

Communalism

CJP files NBDSA complaint over Zee News’s ‘Kalicharan Maharaj vs 4 Maulanas’, alleging communal framing and hate tropes

CJP Team - February 2, 2026

CJP moves NBDSA against Zee News for communal framing and editorial failure; seeks takedown, apology, and regulatory action

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