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The Supreme Court in 2025: Deference, technicality and the retreat from rights
From citizenship and reservation to encounter accountability, privacy, environmental protection and minority rights, the Court's most contentious judgments of 2025 reveal an increasing preference for institutional deference and procedural compliance over substantive constitutional justice
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Video of Gujarat cops flogging men arrested for ‘rioting’ surfaces, inquiry ordered
After first arresting only Muslims on Tuesday, October 4, members of the Gujarat police are reportedly caught on video taking law into their own hands and flogging Muslim youth
Why did it take an order from the Tripura HC to ensure proper enrollment of Bru voters?
Bru refugees who had been living in makeshift huts, shanties and relief camps in Tripura for years, have been resettled in different villages, but their names do not appear in the voters list
Lakhimpur Kheri: A Year on, Deceased Farmers’ Families See no Hope for Justice
As long as the prime accused’s father, Ajay Mishra, continues to remain Union minister of state for home affairs, justice cannot be done in this case, say hapless family members
Police walk with sword-wielding right-wing members at rally: Karnataka
Ministers and officials remained evasive with the media on this questionable conduct
Sharjeel Imam granted bail in the 2019 Sedition Case
In his bail plea, Imam urged that since the Supreme Court has placed sedition on hold, the circumstances were better for the granting of release.
Gyanvapi case: Rift widens between Shringar Gauri plaintiffs
Court reserves order on conducting carbon dating test
A Home Behind Bars: Teesta Setalvad’s Personal Plea for ‘House Arrest’ for Political Prisoners
The activist-writer, herself incarcerated for 63 days this June-September, makes a strong plea for the recognition of political prisoners and the option of house arrest – if at all, they deserve incarceration.
Take accused Gautam Navlakha to hospital immediately, SC directs NIA
Hearing a petition filed by Gautam Navlakha, writer-activist and one of the accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, seeking transfer to house arrest, the Supreme Court has directed that he be taken to a hospital of his choice immediately for a thorough medical check-up
Relief to woman whose parents are forcing her to marry a 52-year old: Jharkand HC
Protection was directed to be given to a 26-year-old woman who had moved the Court seeking adequate security against her family members and other co-religious persons claiming that her family members are forcing her to marry a 52-year-old man.
Vadodara Jail police staff on mass leave, seek equal benefits
Months before the state election, one more protest makes discontent among several lawyers of the population, evident
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