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Gujarat civil society to move Supreme Court against controversial electoral roll revision

rajiv shah - November 10, 2025

A recent, well-attended meeting of Gujarat civil society activists in Ahmedabad, held to discuss the impact of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral...

Rule of Law

Due Process Strengthened: Supreme Court mandates written, language-specific grounds for arrest under special laws and general laws

sabrangindia - November 8, 2025

Building on Pankaj Bansal and Prabir Purkayastha judgements, the Court constitutionalised a uniform standard—every arrest, whether under IPC/BNS or special enactments, must be supported by written grounds communicated in the arrestee’s own language, failing which the arrest stands void

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Pakistan denies entry to 14 Hindu devotees in Sikh ‘jatha’ visiting for Guru Nanak Jayanti

sabrangindia - November 7, 2025

Officials at Attari–Wagah reportedly told the pilgrims, “You are Hindu, you cannot go with a Sikh group,” sending them back despite valid travel documents

Rule of Law

Screens of Silence: What NCRB Data Misses about Cybercrime in India

CJP Team - November 7, 2025

As India’s online world expands, so does the gap between crime and accountability. NCRB data records numbers, but not the reasons behind their soaring increase; besides erasure of reporting of gendered cybercrimes constitute a glaring gap: there is an absence of adequate reportage within NCRB on stalking, cyberbullying, morphing, which are show a mere 5 per cent of rise

Gender and Sexuality

Kerala High Court: First wife must be heard before registering Muslim man’s second marriage

Tanya Arora - November 7, 2025

Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan reasserts constitutional and gender equality, procedural fairness, and the emotional agency of Muslim women in a landmark judgment

India

Obituary: Bhadant Gyaneshwar and his invaluable contribution to the buddhist world

vidya bhushan rawat - November 6, 2025

The passing of 90-year-old Bhadant Gyaneshwar, President of the Kushinagar Bhikshu Sangh and a disciple of Bhante Chandramani—who gave Baba Saheb his deeksha at the historic Deekshabhumi in Nagpur on October 14, 1956, on Dhammachakrapravartan Day—represents a great loss for the Buddhist fraternity worldwide

Gender and Sexuality

Shah Bano Begum (1916-1992): A Socio-Political Historical Timeline

Prof Mohammad Sajjad - November 6, 2025

In this brief, data-driven socio-political timeline of 20th-21st Century India, the author reminds us of the context in which the controversial Bollywood movie, Haq, is sought to be released

Hate Speech

From Welfare to Expulsion: Bihar’s MCC period rhetoric turns citizenship into a campaign weapon

CJP Team - November 6, 2025

Three formal complaints filed during the Model Code of Conduct period—against Union Ministers Giriraj Singh and Nityanand Rai, and BJP MP Ashok Kumar Yadav—combined with Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s Siwan speech, reveal a pattern of communal and exclusionary rhetoric that blurred the line between campaign promise and state threat

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