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Parade of Public Shaming: How Rajasthan police’s illegal “arrest rituals” replace due process with public defilement

In open defiance of law, Supreme Court guidelines, and even their own DGP’s orders, Rajasthan Police have normalised the public parading of accused and suspects, turning due process into a degrading public spectacle—an illegality repeated through 2025 with the state’s top police office remaining silent

Gyanvapi case: Court dismisses mosque committee’s plea challenging maintainability of suit

Court finds suit by Hindu petitioners is not barred by the Places of Worship Act

Gyanvapi case: Judgment on suit maintainability expected today

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Server and mobile phones of top leadership cloned, data taken: Oxfam India on IT raids

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SC grants journalist Siddique Kappan bail in Hathras conspiracy case

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Supreme Court directs Centre to frame policy on jobs for transgender persons

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Bilkis Bano case: SC orders copies of impleading petition to be given to convicts, State of Gujarat

Petitions filed by Subhashini Ali, Revathi Laul and Prof. Roop Rekha Verma, and another by Mahua Moitra; case adjourned for three weeks

SC questions Centre’s decision to just leave minor Rohingya girl at the Myanmar border

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Madhya Pradesh: 13-year-old Dalit rape survivor allegedly beaten by police

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Parade of Public Shaming: How Rajasthan police’s illegal “arrest rituals” replace due process with public defilement

In open defiance of law, Supreme Court guidelines, and even their own DGP’s orders, Rajasthan Police have normalised the public parading of accused and suspects, turning due process into a degrading public spectacle—an illegality repeated through 2025 with the state’s top police office remaining silent

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