The Public Hearing held last Thursday addressed both the Delhi government and the Delhi Commission for Safai Karmacharis who participated and urged implementation of a series of recommendations
Incidents of violence against Dalits continue unabated across the country and continue to receive less media coverage. Sabrang India brings to you a roundup of incidents of reported crimes against Dalits.
“Too vocal” for a job, rejected from publishing because their book was too critical, untouchability at a university - Dalit narratives of caste from 2023 reveal that caste, perforates through all aspects of social and political life.
While appreciating that Christmas celebrations this year were noteworthy as Narendra Modi had invited representatives of the community in New Delhi to his residence, the Archbishop of Bengaluru, Peter Machado, in a public statement asked that the PM apply a soothing touch to the battered state of Manipur and ensure no attacks on churches either
Granting bail to writer and activist, Gautam Navlakha in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case (Bhima Koregaon case), the Bombay High Court, found insufficient evidence to prima facie indicate Navlakha's involvement in conspiring or executing terrorist acts
The Court’s refusal to treat voter IDs, PAN cards, bank records and ancestral documents as proof of nationality highlights the widening gap between documentary recognition by the State and legal recognition of citizenship
A sessions court points to hostile witnesses, unexplained delays, lack of identification procedures and forensic inconsistencies; accused, all of whom who were Muslim, spent up to 827 days in jail
Maharashtra, with 9,78,54,049 has electors which is the base figure for the re-examination of electoral rolls under the ongoing SIR; now the CEO Maharashtra has outlined a schedule detailing deadlines for enumeration, draft publication, claims and objections, verification, final electoral roll publication and post-publication correction procedures
While Parliament broadens the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, crime records show only 60 convictions from over 1,100 arrests between 2014 and 2024