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Delhi court orders FIR against Abhijit Iyer Mitra for sexually abusive posts targeting women journalists

Court finds tweets “sexually coloured,” prima facie intended to outrage modesty; directs police probe into X account and devices

SC seeks Centre’s response to petitions challenging CAA

States of Assam and Tripura to file separate responses; matter to be heard on October 31

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

Heavy police deployment to maintain law and order

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

Offices of Oxfam India, CPR and IPSMF had been raided on September 7 in connection with alleged illegal funding of political parties

SC to hear pleas challenging the Place of Worship Act on October 11

Centre to file response in two weeks; Intervention Application of the Royal Family of Kashi, Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind and others allowed

SC grants journalist Siddique Kappan bail in Hathras conspiracy case

Arrested under UAPA, Siddique Kappan has been directed to remain in Delhi for the next six weeks before being allowed to leave for Kerela

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

Centre to form policy to provide reasonable accommodation to transgender people in employment in the establishments within three months under the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019

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

The girl’s parents are in Bangladesh and want her back; an NGO has filed application to foster her till she is reunited with her family

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

Girl’s family alleges police forcibly kept the girl overnight at the police station where she was kicked and beaten with belts to pressure her to change her statement

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Telangana: Stop forcible ‘re-location of Chenchu Adivasis from Amrabad Tiger Reserve

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Victory for Forest Rights: Allahabad HC recognises land claims of Tharu Tribes, strikes down decision of DLC

The Allahabad High Court recently struck down a 2021 decision of the District Level Committee (DLC), Lakhimpur upholding the land rights of the Tharu tribe while observing that the authorities cannot short-circuit the existing statutory rights of the forest dwellers by blindly relying on court orders issued before the enactment of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 (FRA, 2006). This law recognises the individual and community rights of Adivasis.