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UP: 14-Year-Old Dalit Content Creator Ashwamit Gautam faces arrest, FIR over strong dissenting social media videos

sabrangindia - January 22, 2026

Ashwamit Gautam,a young 14 year-old content creator on social media platforms now faces an FIR under the repressive Uttar Pradesh administration headed by Adityanath as chief minister. Potentially this could mean detention or arrest, all over viral social media videos; the move that came to light on Wednesday, January 21 is a clear case of the state silencing young voices

Rights

Bombay HC: Notice to Maharashtra state, police on UK doctor, Sangram Patil’s petition seeking quashing of LOC & FIR

sabrangindia - January 22, 2026

The Bombay High Court on Thursday issued notice to the state government and other respondents seeking their response to a plea by UK doctor and YouTuber Sangram Patil; Patil a doctor of repute, and a Maharashtrian expat was detained on his arrival at Mumbai airport on January 10 and later prevented from leaving for the UK on Jan 19

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A rare yet heart-warming coincidence: Hindu-Muslim Kidney transplant

sabrangindia - January 22, 2026

A Hindu’s kidney in a Muslim’s body, and a Muslim’s kidney in a Hindu’s body—you tell me, what religion does this kidney belong to? Yesterday’s incident in Sambhajinagar shows that at certain moments, neither God nor Allah comes running to help. What comes instead is humanity and wisdom.

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Shivsena UBT candidate Roshani Gaikwad moves Bombay HC against gross violations during recent BMC elections

sabrangindia - January 21, 2026

Alleging gross violations on BMC poll day, including already opened ballot boxes and broken seals on EVM machines and an absence of vote tally, the SS (UBT) candidate Roshani Gaikwad, has moved the Bombay HC

Rights

Removed Without Process: The Doyjan Bibi case and the Gauhati High Court’s Retreat from demanding deportation records

CJP Team - January 21, 2026

In refusing to question the absence of any deportation or handover records after a woman vanished from a holding centre and was reportedly transferred to the BSF, the Gauhati High Court has signalled a dangerous judicial tolerance for undocumented removals carried out in the name of sovereign authority

Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

50,000 strong Adivasi, farmers march from Charoti to Palghar, hold indefinite dharna for land rights

sabrangindia - January 21, 2026

The CPI (M)-led massive long march from Charoti to Palghar in Maharashtra ended with a dharna at the Collector’s office, Palghar

Media

J & K: Attempt to muzzle FoE, Media? Police summons to media, journalists

sabrangindia - January 21, 2026

The peremptory, even extra-legal summons to four journalists from national publications has drawn outrage; the repressive action, clearly an action of intimidation, is aimed at those who have reported on a controversial move by the J & K administration and police to collect information on Mosques etc in the union territory

Communalism

Publicly Tortured, Forced to Eat Cow Dung: No arrests in Odisha Pastor assault case

sabrangindia - January 21, 2026

More than two weeks after a Hindutva mob assaulted and humiliated Pastor Bipin Bihari Naik in Dhenkanal, police inaction and a counter-FIR against the victim raise serious questions about justice and religious freedom

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