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Judicial Pushback against Cow Vigilantism: Allahabad HC flags arbitrary FIRs, demands accountability from top officials
The Court exposes the way a regulatory law has become a system of targeted persecution of minorities through arbitrary FIRs under the 1955 law while ignoring the Supreme Court’s binding directives to prohibit group violence
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Signature campaign demanding justice for Bilkis Bano on Mumbai’s trains
First person account of the experience of concerned citizens and rights activists as they talked to commuters on Mumbai's local trains on August 21, about the Bilkis Bano case, and gathered signatures against the remission of sentence granted to the convicts
Azaan on loudspeakers does not violate fundamental rights of people of other faiths: Karnataka HC
The Court's observations come at a time when there have been repeated instances of right-wing fundamentalists targeting the Muslim call to prayer
Allahabad HC sentences Police Officer to 14 Day Imprisonment for violating ‘Arnesh Kumar Guidelines’
Police Officer held guilty of contempt for guidelines laid out by the Supreme Court pertaining to arrest and detention in the landmark case
Bilkis Bano case: Remission of convicts’ sentences challenged before SC
Advocate Aparna Bhat has sought an urgent listing for tomorrow
Gyanvapi case: Has the mosque committee’s new lawyer backed out?
Hearing to continue today in district court; AIM reiterates mosque is Waqf property
Teesta Setalvad bail: SC issues notice to State of Gujarat
Court to consider on Thursday matter pertaining to interim relief while bail remains pending before Gujarat HC
Bilkis Bano case: NHRC to discuss release of convicts?
The Commission had previously aided the survivor in seeking justice
Stay in Mumbai, No Gathering Visitors at Home, Don’t Contact Co-Accused: Varavara Rao Bail Terms
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The court has asked the octogenarian poet-activist to furnish a fresh bond of Rs 50,000 with two solvent sureties in the like amount.
A very bad precedent has been set: Judge who convicted 11 men in Bilkis Bano case
Rights groups and legal luminaries raise important questions about provisions of remission policy
Free Teesta Setalvad: Noam Chomsky, American academics write to Supreme Court
Indian rights groups continue to hold solidarity meetings, demand Setalvad’s immediate release
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