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Bombay High Court orders FIR in Somnath Suryawanshi custodial death case, slams police for delay and bias

Aurangabad Bench directs FIR within a week; finds prima facie evidence of custodial torture and criticises state police and CID for a biased probe into Somnath Suryawanshi’s death after the Parbhani protests

How the Delhi riots case remains stagnant with close to a dozen student leaders incarcerated

A look back at the trajectory of the Delhi Riots case(s), especially the infamous and belatedly registered FIR 59/2020 reveals a litany of procedural and substantive failures, together resulting in the incarceration without bail, for five long years, ten student activists and human rights defenders and one more politician as “accused”

Development or dispossession? 1,188 days of defiance against forced land acquisition in Devanahalli, Karnataka

As Karnataka’s government inches forward with plans to acquire 1,777 acres of fertile farmland for a Defence and Aerospace Park, farmers from 13 villages in Devanahalli, now backed by workers’ unions, Dalit and Muslim groups, intellectuals and scientists, dig in for the final battle. With promises broken and livelihoods at stake, the countdown to July 15 marks a watershed moment in Karnataka’s agrarian history

Fr. Stan Swamy SJ: Person, Pilgrim, Prophet

On the fourth anniversary of his death, July 5, a targeted act of violence called an ‘institutional murder’, Jesuit activist priest, Stan Swamy is remembered in Tamil Nadu, the place of his birth, and Jharkhand the site of his years of toil, for his commitment and integrity; a recall

Emergency regime and the role of RSS

The RSS’ claim that they were the main force of ‘resistance’ during the 15-month period of the Emergency is not borne out by record

“Sambhal: Anatomy of an Engineered Crisis”- How a peaceful Muslim-majority town was turned into a site of manufactured communal conflict

Released six months after the violence, this fact-finding report of the APCR exposes how state agencies, institutions, and communal actors colluded to construct a crisis in Sambhal through illegal mosque surveys, police firing, mass detentions, and myth-driven temple claims; turning religious faith into a weapon and justice into a spectacle

MoEFCC subverting the Forest Rights Act, 2006: 150 Citizens groups

Over 150 countrywide organisations have in a communication to Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlined how the Forest Rights Act, 2006 is being consistently undermined, threatening not just Adivasis but forests and the environment

Deported in Silence: India’s mass expulsions of alleged Bangladeshis without due process

Since May 7, over 2,000 individuals—mostly Bengali-speaking migrants—have been rounded up and covertly deported under Operation Sindoor, a nationwide crackdown bypassing legal safeguards. But a growing backlash from constitutional courts and state governments—especially West Bengal—has begun to challenge the legality, profiling, and human cost of these shadow deportations.

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