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India’s 2023 bad laws: Impact on Individual Freedoms and Indigenous Rights in a weaponised state

CJP Legal Research Team - January 5, 2024

Do the 30 bills passed summarily, without due process, in the four sessions of the Parliament paint an even more dismal picture for the future of India, further curtailing our rights and freedoms?

Gender and Sexuality

Lavanya Ballal Jain, Congress spokesperson, subjected to online sexual harassment; incident motivated by BJP spokesperson

sabrangindia - January 5, 2024

Shehzad Poonawala used a sexual innuendo against Lavanya on social media, posted a video, and encouraged his followers to share the same with a contentious hashtag

Minorities

Not In Our Name, says Christians to some leaders who celebrated Christmas with PM Modi

sabrangindia - January 4, 2024

December 25, 2023 Christmas Celebration with the PM is Not in Our Name say over 3,000 Christians to 100 of their leaders who visited with the leader and sung praises

Dalits

Uttar Pradesh, Bihar: Outrage erupts as policemen commit heinous crimes against Dalits

sabrangindia - January 4, 2024

Two harrowing stories of brutality emerge from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar as a 25-year-old Dalit woman is found dead in Agra, allegedly murdered by a police constable. Similarly, in Bihar's Sitamarhi, public outrage rises as a police inspector is under investigation for assaulting a Dalit woman at a marketplace.

Labour

Thousands of Anganwadi workers protest, demands of wage hike unmet, talks with M’tra CM fail

sabrangindia - January 4, 2024

Negotiations between the Maharashtra State Anganwadi Workers Action Committee and M’tra CM, Eknath Shinde failed on January 3, agitation and strike of state’s day care workers to continue

Rule of Law

Delhi HC: “Accused cannot be coerced to reveal or disclose the password(s) in view of Article 20 (3) of Indian Constitution”

sabrangindia - January 4, 2024

Highlighting the constitutional protection granted to accused from self-incrimination, the Court granted bail to accused holding that “applicant is innocent till proven guilty”

Minorities

Muslim youth from Bihar beaten to death in Rajasthan

sabrangindia - January 4, 2024

A young Muslim man named Afsar Ali, who worked as a tailor in Rajasthan, was beaten to death after he reportedly asked a driver who brushed past him on the road to drive carefully.

Communalism

India’s Catholic clergy urges acts of conscience not political opportunism: Church leaders meet with PM Modi

sabrangindia - January 4, 2024

A war of conscience and powerful words has broken out among the Indian Catholic clergy after Prime Minister Modi’s Christmas invite (December 25, 2023) to select church heads, who then circulated videos bowing in abject praise to the leader; a public campaign “Not in Our Name” was sought to be curtailed by some priests, leading to a powerful Open Letter from Father Anand in Varanasi

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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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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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