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Bombay High Court directs filing of a First Information Report (FIR) against the 5 cops held responsible for death of accused in Badlapur Sexual...

sabrangindia - January 22, 2025

Encounters in custody are shockingly common in India and can be said to be a result of the slow and dysfunctional judicial system of India. Often cases are seen to get delayed, evidence is destroyed or lost, witnesses turn hostile, and the defendants buy their freedom. But the response of the police by taking the law into their own hands is even more threatening for the judicial system in India. Encounters usually end with dead criminals and not at all scathed police, raising multiple questions as to the necessity of use of such force by the police.

Caste

Maharashtra’s Descent into Hate: Six incidents reported in January 2025 highlight Maharashtra’s rising communal and caste-based violence

CJP Team - January 21, 2025

A surge in hate crimes and divisive rhetoric under the new government reveals a growing threat to Maharashtra’s secular and pluralistic identity, with minorities and marginalised communities bearing the brunt of the assault

Politics

Conflict of interest: M’tra cabinet grants Fadnavis sole authority, serving IAS man appointed as SEC

Aman Khan - January 21, 2025

After the Maharashtra Cabinet granted CM Fadnavis sole authority to appoint the new SEC days ago, Dinesh Waghmare, a 1994-batch IAS officer, takes charge as SEC on January 21. Waghmare served as the Principal Secretary of Medical Education and Drugs department with additional charge of Employment Guarantee Scheme in Maharashtra and resigned only after this appointment, a development that raises serious questions of a conflict of interest: the SC in 2021 has held that SECs have to be "independent persons" not occupying a post under the Centre or state governments

Communal Organisations

Bhagwat’s remarks spark national unity debate

Sabrang Team - January 20, 2025

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s remarks linking independence to the Ram temple consecration have sparked debates on historical revisionism, divisive narratives, and constitutional values.

Communalism

CJP calls for electoral action against BJP leader’s hate speech at Rohini Chetna event

CJP Team - January 20, 2025

Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) filed a complaint with CEO, Delhi, R. Alice Vaz, against BJP leader Nazia Elahi Khan for delivering a hate-filled speech on January 5, 2025, in Rohini. Khan’s remarks, including “Tell them (Muslims) to get education, they will not! Tell them to create terror, they will do it immediately,” incited communal hatred against Muslims, violated the MCC and threatened the integrity of the Delhi Assembly elections – 2025

Politics

Vacancies, Backlogs, and increased governmental involvement: How the RTI Act has lost its glory!

CJP Team - January 20, 2025

The recent Supreme Court judgement brings to attention the attempts made by the Centre over the past few years to dilute the powers of the one law that has the power to hold the Government accountable

India

No info on pre-numbered slips issued during LS, assembly polls: ECI

sabrangindia - January 20, 2025

Such pre-numbered slips are a statutory, legal requirement, designed to record the total number of voters standing in the queue by the close of polling hour

Religion

Muslim societies need counter-narrative to radicalisation and religious extremism

Dr. Mohammad Ghitreef - January 20, 2025

Extremism did not appear out of nowhere. It is a treasured offspring of religious philosophy that is taught and studied at our madrasas and religious schools.

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In a strongly worded letter to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and Maharashtra Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis, V.D. Satheesan, Congress leader of the opposition Kerala Assembly has sought urgent intervention regarding the detention/arrest of twelve individuals, including Father Sudhir, a priest of the CSI South Kerala Diocese, arrested by the Maharashtra Police following a complaint filed by Bajrang Dal activists

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Poetry award for Ipsa Shatakshi at the world book fair, January 2026

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West Bengal: SIR unravelled

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Multiple reports of serious anomalies in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process being unilaterally conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in West Bengal have come to light; exclusion of Matuas, immigrants from erstwhile east Bengal, is only one of them

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