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Manual Scavenging: Eradicate the practice, ensure effective rehabilitation, scholarship, compensation, uphold dignity and liberty says SC

Tanya Arora - October 30, 2023

Supreme Court bench issues detailed directions to the Union and state government to implement the provisions of Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013, conduct necessary surveys, co-ordinate with Commissions

Rights

Manipur High Court: Right to cast vote an integral part of Article 19(1)(a), affirms voters right to know criminal antecedents

Tanya Arora - October 28, 2023

As legal status of the right to vote remains ambiguous, a judicial pronouncement of a constitutional court declaring the same as a fundamental right is the need of the hour

Politics

“Rath Prabharis” to Nodal Officers: Will the Name Change help in depoliticising Bureaucracy?

A Legal Researcher - October 28, 2023

The latest incursion by the Modi 2.0 government, in galvanising officers from India’s central administrative service to showcase it’s government schemes, on the eve of five state elections and six months before the 2024 general questions raises serious questions of constitutional proprietary and overreach; as crucially it flags the question on why the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with its widely eulogised mantle of electoral prowess, would after nine years in power, need this additional crutch!

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Barabanki prison celebrates the revered month of Ramzan!

sabrangindia - October 27, 2023

Is it possible to change the dynamics of a prison through religious harmony? Barabanki jail sets a benchmark for such ideals!

Communal Organisations

Hate Offender: BJP state VP, Vikram Pawaskar uses abuse and intimidation against Satara’s Muslims, wants “Hindu Rashtra”

sabrangindia - October 27, 2023

Accused of organising and stoking violence against Muslims in Satara (August-September 2023), SabrangIndia tracked down BJP’s Vikram Pawaskar. On September 15, as communal conflict was stoked over controversial social media posts in the western Maharashtra town, widespread destruction of minority property, the death of one Muslim man, with several others being injured resulted. Our investigation unearthed a previous history of hate speech that are attributable to this party functionary

Politics

Modi Govt backs down from dubbing IAS Officers ‘Rath Prabharis’, EC notice follows

sabrangindia - October 27, 2023

Officers have now been instructed to participate in Prime Minister Modi's yatra on November 15 and the union government has backed down from this campaign in the five poll-bound states. Merely stating that these public servants won't be called "rath prabharis" may not work, given the sharp opposition that the government’s plans have been met with; ECI issued a notice to the union government on the issue also yesterday, after a former IAS officer, EAS Sharma lodged a complaint

Labour

Maharashtra: 13 lakh construction workers will be denied Rs 1 mid-day meals from Nov 1

sabrangindia - October 27, 2023

Mid-day reports that a March 2019 scheme of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government led by Udhav Thackeray (Shiv Sena) is now being summarily scrapped, without consultation by the Eknath-Shinde-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government

Communalism

Muslims, victims of targeted violence in Pusesavali, Satara: Fact-finding report

sabrangindia - October 27, 2023

Demanding an impartial probe into the September 10 incidents in western Maharashtra, this detailed report by the Centre for the Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS), also investigates how a derogatory social media post on Allah was created and used in ‘tit for tat’ tactics to further communal polarisation; on September 15, citizens of Mumbai and Maharashtra had demanded compensation for Nurul Hassan Shikalgar and a judicial probe; Satara police had found that the August 2023 social media post attributed to a young Muslim was posted by another

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