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Dhandhuka violence: Gujarat minority group seeks judicial action, cites targeted arson

The Minority Coordination Committee (MCC) Gujarat has written to the Director General of Police seeking judicial action in connection with recent violence in Dhandhuka town of Ahmedabad district, alleging...

Gujarat: Are BJP leaders counseling women against inter faith marriages?

Several BJP leaders including the party city President recently met a 23-year-old woman, and explained the pros and cons of her marriage to a Muslim boy of the same age

Latehar lynching case: Jharkhand HC dismissed plea for convict’s suspension of sentence

Awadhesh Sao had been convicted in the lynching of a cattle trader and an 11-year-old boy

CJP moves petition against “Love Jihad” laws in SC

Human Rights group calls the Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh laws surrounding inter-faith marriages, un-constitutional and anti-women; demands they be struck down

They tortured me, gave me injections, I fear I have miscarried: Pinki, victim of anti ‘Love Jihad’ law

The 22-year-old is still suffering, even as husband, brother-in-law remain in jail; cops say will seek ‘legal opinion on case’

Delhi riots: Court grants bail to Muslim man accused of lynching fellow Muslim

The accused was also missing from CCTV footage of the attack, where there was delay in filing FIR

Devangana Kalita creating ‘narrative to show’ that Kapil Mishra was behind riots: Delhi Police

Delhi Police thinks student activist Devangana Kalita has enough social media influence and power to create a narrative to blame well known politician Kapil Mishra for North East Delhi communal riots?

Gumla lynching case accused moves Jharkhand HC for bail

One Adivasi man was killed and three injured in the April 2019 mob attack

Derogatory remarks against Islam create communal tension in Assam

AAMSU compelled to register case against RSS leader

Political ideology of BJP: Pragya Singh Thakur

It is likely that she may be pressured once again to withdraw these utterances of hers’, but it is not just incidental that what she says is the part of deeper understanding of sectarian nationalists

“Temple restoration” suits on the rise; what about the Places of Worship Act?

The law was passed in the aftermath of the Babri dispute in 1991, to protect all other places of worship. But these suits akin to the Ayodhya land dispute are being entertained despite a law in place

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UP: Women protest installation of prepaid smart electricity metres in several districts

At least ten districts of Uttar Pradesh have witnessed widespread women led protests against the hasty, untested installation of pre-paid smart metres that women claim have been programmed to run fast to “inflate” electricity bills

As lynchings “normalise” in ‘New India, a Bihar imam is ‘thrashed, pushed’ from train to die in Bareilly

While the incident reportedly took place on April 26, it took sectional media and social media coverage for the Bareilly police to finally admit that the beating to death of Maulana Tausif Raza Manzari was a targeted attack, not an accident on May 1; his wife provided details of a call to her from the dead cleric where he narrated he was under attack

Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

Malegaon 2006 Blast Case: Bombay High Court rejects NIA’s ‘alternate narrative’, holds prosecution built on contradictions and inadmissible evidence

Holding that “diagonally opposite” narratives by investigative agencies cannot sustain a trial, the Court finds the NIA’s case rooted in retracted statements, hearsay material, and a legally impermissible reinvestigation—bringing the prosecution to a “dead end”