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Does India have a lawfully established procedure on ‘deportation’, or are actions governed by Executive secrecy and overreach?

A Legal Researcher - June 9, 2025

On Monday, June 2, the Supreme Court refused to entertain a plea challenging the Assam Government’s move to indiscriminately detain and deport persons, without...

Rights

Bombay High Court orders immediate release of 18-year-old detained for father’s citizenship status

sabrangindia - June 6, 2025

Vacation bench says detention of Indian-born girl unjustified; invokes principles of due process, liberty, and jurisdictional restraint under Foreigners Act and May 2025 Central Government Resolution

India

Assam: Academics, lawyers, activists condemn ‘push back’ of persons to Bangladesh

sabrangindia - June 6, 2025

This non transparent action launched post May 23, 2025 ‘falls on the wrong side of constitutionality’ and violates the rights to life and equality of those expelled, they said in a statement

India

CJP’s submits supplementary memo to NHRC revealing returnee testimonies after Assam’s allegedly unlawful expulsion of persons to Bangladesh

CJP Team - June 6, 2025

Latest submission documents the late night detentions and expulsions that violated all procedures, family testimonies, amounting to the forced abandonment of persons in Bangladeshi borderlands.

Gender and Sexuality

Same sex marriage not legalised, but couples can form a family: Madras HC

sabrangindia - June 5, 2025

In an expansive order, a division bench of the Madras High Court also court observed that the concept of "family" has to be understood expansively and marriage is not the sole mode to start a family. The court also pulled up the police in Vellore district for showing insensitivity and being non-responsive to the complaints by the petitioner

Minorities

Nine years, Najeeb from JNU is almost forgotten, India’s CBI investigation has found none guilty

sabrangindia - June 5, 2025

The investigation marks a shocking failure in the capabilities of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), increasingly critiqued for malfunctioning under political pressure; in 2018 the CBI filed a closure report and seven years later, today, June 5, the Court is likely to hear and decide whether to accept that a missing student from one of India’s premier institutes, the JNU simply cannot be found nor the circumstances behind his disappearance

Environment

Cries for Environmental Justice: India at a low 176/180 countries in the 2024 Environmental Performance Index

fr. cedric prakash sj - June 5, 2025

June 5, World Environment Day is a sombre reminder that on the 2024 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), India is ranked at a pathetically low position of 176 out of 180 countries

Environment

June 5: World environment day & the increasing importance of seed conservation by farmers and rural communities

Bharat Dogra - June 5, 2025

Fifty-three years after the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm Sweden, marked a landmark event of environmental activists, indigenous people, scientists and officialdom, World Environment Day, June 5, Bharat Dogra writes on how Indian local communities, especially women, are taking charge of seed conservation and rejuvenating efforts, defeating attempts by corporates to monopolise and monetise this traditional wisdom

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