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The Advocates Amendment Bill, 2025: A blatant attack on lawyers’ autonomy and democracy

Nabeel Masood -
The bill proposes government-nominated members be appointed to Bar Council of India (BCI) and State Bar Councils. This is an unconstitutional violation of the autonomy of the legal profession and a direct threat to judicial independence.
South Asia

Pakistan: Farmers Protest Govt’s Corporate Farming Plan

Abdul Rahman -
To invite big corporate investments into the country’s agriculture sector, Pakistan has announced the building of six canals on the Indus River.
Gender and Sexuality

IMSD condemns the assassination of the world’s first openly gay Imam

IMSD -
“No God, gods, goddesses, prophets or saints may be invoked to justify the killing and/or terrorising of fellow human beings”.
Gender and Sexuality

When marriage is tyranny: Justice Shakdher’s judgment reads down the marital rape exception as a constitutional imperative

A Legal Researcher -
In contrast to the verdict delivered by Justice Hari Shankar, his brother judge hearing the matter, Justice Shakhder’s judgement in the May 2022 case hearing the constitutional challenge to the exception to marital rape provision under Section 375, strikes it down as anti-constitutional. The matter will now go before the Supreme Court where the constitutional challenge lies pending for two years
Gender and Sexuality

How Justice C Harishankar, in upholding the exception to marital rape, delivered a reasoning fir for the dark ages

A Legal Researcher -
One judge of a division bench of the Delhi High Court, Justice C. Hari Shankar, hearing a petition on the crucial issue of marital rape, in 2022, upheld the exception of this form under section 375 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), a reasoning that is also facing constitutional challenge in the Supreme Court for the past two years
Labour

TN: Samsung Workers Continue Protest, Accuse Management of Vindictive Action

Newsclick Report -
The union has decided to hold a protest in front of the SIPCOT unit on February 20 and serve strike notice on February 21, if the talks scheduled on February 19 do not bring any positive outcome.
Rule of Law

Strengthening the rights of victims: Legal milestones and the path ahead

CJP Legal Team -
In Mahabir & Ors. v. State of Haryana, the Supreme Court reinforced principles for striking a balance between victims’ rights and fair trials in India’s legal system by upholding due process, victim participation, and prosecutorial accountability
Communalism

Communal Tensions Erupt in Bihar’s Jamui: Alleged stone-pelting during religious procession leads to violence

sabrangindia -
Religious procession turns violent, internet services suspended, and political tensions rise as state assembly polls approach
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Communal Organisations

UP’s syncretic warrior cults facing Hindutva challenge

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Be it the attack on the Gogamedi shrine in the Hanumangarh district of northern Rajasthan or the Neja Mela in the Sambhal district of western Uttar Pradesh, Hindutva’s systemic attack on India’s syncretic traditions, past and present, reveals its rigid and Brahmanical ideological orientation: imposition of a strictly hierarchical, exclusionary and structured notion of faith and practice
Minorities

No Hearing, No Notice, Just Deletion: How Bengal’s SIR Erased a Decorated IAF Officer

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The removal of Wing Commander Md Shamim Akhtar, who served the nation for 17 years, during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) highlights a systemic lack of due process that threatens the voting rights of even the most distinguished citizens
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

An Adivasi woman once in bonded labour now serves her village as a Sarpanch

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As India marks 50 years of the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976, cases of bonded labour still surface in states like Telangana where many workers in sectors such as agriculture, brick kilns, fishing and construction remain trapped in debt and coercion; here the author reflects on a transformative journey of an Adivasi woman who serves as a Sarpanch.
Rights

Rights group files complaint over electoral roll purges in North 24 Parganas

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A formal complaint has been lodged with the Election...
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Abdul Sheikh Citizenship Case: Deportation stayed as Gauhati High Court Hears challenge to ex parte foreigner declaration, state to raise maintainability issue

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Court allows preliminary objection while continuing stay on deportation; petitioner explains delay to challenge FT order through prolonged detention, lack of access to the detenue, financial constraints, and absence of legal aid
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