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Data is real, true wealth: SC issues notice in yet another plea challenging DPDP Act; highlights privacy concerns
This petition, filed by journalist Geeta Seshu, along with the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC) that also challenges the constitutional validity of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 will now be heard with other petitions filed in the matter by Reporter’s Collective, Nitin Sethi and Venkatesh Nayak, on March 23
Understanding evolution of Indian abortion law
How the rights to bodily autonomy & free choice have recently been understood to be integral to the right to abortion
Gyanvapi dispute: Varanasi FTC dismisses plea challenging maintainability of suit filed by Vishwa Vedic Sanatan Sangh
This is a second suit, separate from the one filed by 5 Hindu women. This suit seeks ban on the entry of Muslims into the Gyanvapi complex, among other pleas.
Rules for seizure of electronic devices by Police: A Need of the hour
An amendment to the CrPC to include procedure to be followed while seizing electronic devices has become germane as investigating officers while making arrests tend to seize such devices, without any legal sanction leading to impinging upon constitutional rights of the accused
What CJI Chandrachud’s two-year tenure looks like
Hijab ban case, challenges to UAPA, CAA, anti-conversation laws could all be adjudicated during his tenure
Delhi violence: Will not take such mishaps leniently: says Court as Delhi police brings “irrelevant witness”
Incorrect date of incident in charges, non-framing of charges in some complaints were the issues that cropped up during the trial court hearing
Gautam Navlakha’s house arrest: Stringent Conditions Apply
The activist while being granted his request for house arrest, has been imposed with restrictions like no use of mobile phones, no contact with outside world and surveillance of his partner’s phone as well as the premises, whenever need be
Elgar Case: 4 Days After SC Order, Navlakha Yet to be Placed Under House Arrest
Formalities of release of the human rights activist, jailed in Mumbai’s Taloja prison, are “still under process,” said his lawyer.
Centre seeks time to respond for ‘detailed consultations’: Plea challenging Places of Worship Act in SC
The CJI-led bench has granted time until December 12 to the Centre to file its response which has been pending since March 2021, in the many petitions filed challenging the Act
Rampant Hate Speech demands debate around definitions: India
Re-defining crimes of hate speech need to factor in the de-humanising and violent impact of its systemic use
‘Scapegoat’, Bail granted to Muslim woman accused of being Pakistani: Karnataka HC
In judicial custody for 16 months with fundamental freedoms snatched away, Khatija Mehrin’s is one more example of malafide police action
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Data is real, true wealth: SC issues notice in yet another plea challenging DPDP Act; highlights privacy concerns
This petition, filed by journalist Geeta Seshu, along with the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC) that also challenges the constitutional validity of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 will now be heard with other petitions filed in the matter by Reporter’s Collective, Nitin Sethi and Venkatesh Nayak, on March 23
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Religious Freedom: How the USCIRF continues to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC)
For another year running, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has in strong recommendations, urged the US government to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), “for engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations, as defined by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA)”
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USCIRF’s Call for Sanctions on the RSS Is a Major Moral and Political Marker
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has apart from continuing to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), also recommended targeted sanctions against the RSS; this is a first.
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Evicted, Accused, and Deleted: The shrinking space for Muslim citizenship
From migrant workers and small vendors to university classrooms and electoral rolls, the architecture of suspicion –for the Indian Muslim--now stretches across everyday life
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Union government revokes Sonam Wangchuk’s detention under NSA after nearly six months!
Move comes days before Supreme Court hearing in habeas corpus petition filed by his wife; Ladakh activist had been detained following September 2025 protests over statehood and Sixth Schedule protections
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Allahabad High Court orders 24/7 armed protection for Bareilly Muslim man allegedly prevented from offering namaz at home
Summoning the district magistrate and SSP of Bareilly, the Allahabad High Court said any violence against the petitioner or his property would be presumed to have occurred at the instance of the State, as the case raises serious concerns over interference with religious prayers inside private property