Hate & Harmony

Systematic Exclusion: Caste-based atrocities across Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, MP, and UP

A spate of anti-Dalit incidents—from a youth killed over leftover food in Amreli to a suspicious death after an inter-caste relationship in Tamil Nadu, and social boycotts in Khargone—also includes temple bans and clashes over Dalit wedding processions

Great friends and fellow martyrs

Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqullah Khan are immortal symbols of communal harmony

Hathras case: UP State & DM deny accepting house and job requests of the victim’s family

The victim’s family submitted before the High Court that they were promised compensation, employment and a house by the DM which was being refused

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

Every workplace must declare zero tolerance for Gender insensitivity: Delhi HC

The court observed that internal committees need not demand high standard of proof in complaints of sexual harassment

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

Lack of menstrual hygiene facilities depriving girls of right to education: J&K HC 

Bench led by then Chief Justice Gita Mittal gave a detailed order directing govt to submit plan of action regarding improving sanitation facilities and providing menstrual products in schools

Tribal man dies under mysterious circumstances in UP

Family rejects police theory of drunken brawl, demands justice

Enable Transgender Community to apply for Constable Post: Patna High Court

The court noted that the advertisement released by the state precludes transgenders from applying and directed the state to take remedial measures

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

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Systematic Exclusion: Caste-based atrocities across Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, MP, and UP

A spate of anti-Dalit incidents—from a youth killed over leftover food in Amreli to a suspicious death after an inter-caste relationship in Tamil Nadu, and social boycotts in Khargone—also includes temple bans and clashes over Dalit wedding processions

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When Safdar Hashmi wrote a play on the centenary of May Day, 1986.

Delhi: Ayaan Saifi, a 16-year old, stabbed to death in nation’s capital on April 30

Man stabbed in Trilokpuri: While media focusses on the just concluded state polls, and television channels turn the other way, two media outlets, The Tribune and Observer Post report the stabbing of 19 year old Ayaan Saifi on April 30

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