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Screens of Silence: What NCRB Data Misses about Cybercrime in India

As India’s online world expands, so does the gap between crime and accountability. NCRB data records numbers, but not the reasons behind their soaring increase; besides erasure of reporting of gendered cybercrimes constitute a glaring gap: there is an absence of adequate reportage within NCRB on stalking, cyberbullying, morphing, which are show a mere 5 per cent of rise

Gauhati HC directs State to confirm custody or deportation of two men detained in midnight police action in Assam

Following petitions filed by family members, High Court seeks clarity on status of two individuals previously declared ‘foreigners’ but released on bail and reporting regularly to police under Supreme Court guidelines

Odisha: Graham Staines’ Brutal Murder; Mystery Hangs Over Dara Singh’s Release

The Bajrang Dal activist is serving a life term for one of the most heinous crimes in India, of burning alive the missionary and his two children inside their vehicle.

Supreme Court and the Rofiqul Hoque Judgment: A new chapter in Assam’s citizenship jurisprudence on discrepancies in documentary evidence

Examining the Supreme Court’s latest ruling and its impact on citizenship claims under the Foreigners Act in Assam, with a detailed analysis of how the Rofiqul Hoque case reshapes judicial scrutiny of documentary evidence

Delhi Court accepts closure report in sexual harassment of minor, Drops POCSO case against Brij Bhushan Singh

Case dropped after complainant expresses no objection and Delhi Police finds no grounds to proceed under POCSO Act; Court accepts police’s 550-page closure report

Vantara case against Himal Southasian dismissed by Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court on 19 May 2025 dismissed...

SC: Interim bail granted to professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad; SIT to probe posts on Operation Sindoor

During the hearing, the bench led by Justice Kant expressed some disapproval of the petitioner's post.

“Shielding their own”: Supreme Court slams Madhya Pradesh police, transfers custodial death probe of a tribal man to CBI

In a scathing judgment, the Court denounces State inaction, delays, and intimidation of the sole eyewitness, reinforcing the constitutional demand for impartial investigation and institutional accountability

“No One is Above the Law”: Supreme Court demotes Deputy Collector for demolishing a slum settlement by flouting HC order

In a scathing yet balanced judgment, the apex court confirms contempt conviction of an Andhra Pradesh officer for defying a High Court order, orders demotion and fine in lieu of jail, and reaffirms that judicial authority is sacrosanct in a constitutional democracy

FIR meant to fail: MP High Court calls out state’s attempt to shield BJP minister, in hate speech case, to monitor probe

A day after directing registration of FIR against BJP Minister Vijay Shah for calling Col. Sofiya Qureshi a “sister of terrorists,” the Court pulls up the police for drafting a deliberately vague complaint as ‘gross subterfuge’, and steps in to ensure justice is not derailed

No to Dalits who are Christian, Muslim, how the AP HC limits its understanding of caste and faith

Relying on a discriminatory relic from the 1950s, the Presidential Order, the AP high court confines its understanding of caste discrimination, exclusion and untouchability to Dalit sections from among Hindus, Sikh or Buddhist; the recent decision thereby validates what has been increasingly viewed as the discriminatory presidential directive

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Screens of Silence: What NCRB Data Misses about Cybercrime in India

As India’s online world expands, so does the gap between crime and accountability. NCRB data records numbers, but not the reasons behind their soaring increase; besides erasure of reporting of gendered cybercrimes constitute a glaring gap: there is an absence of adequate reportage within NCRB on stalking, cyberbullying, morphing, which are show a mere 5 per cent of rise

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Pregnant woman deported despite parents on 2002 SIR rolls, another homemaker commits suicide

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