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‘We will challenge notices in Court’: IFF’s statement on legal notice over ‘defaming’ RSS

The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) details a legal notice issued on behalf of the RSS over its documentation of censorship in India, and the police action that followed, raising concerns over freedom of expression

Elgar Parishad case: Bombay court rejects Hany Babu’s bail plea

In his plea, Babu said that while the NIA cited a letter detailing a conspiracy to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi as evidence, the alleged letter did not incriminate him.

Gyanvapi case: Petitioner moves caveat before Allahabad High Court

Rekha Pathak, one of the four Hindu women petitioners in the Shringar Gauri case has asked for the right to oppose application by mosque committee

The Challenge to Places of Worship Special Provisions Act, 1991 is Misconceived

Response to Ashwani Kumar Upadhyay’s petition before the Supreme Court

Gyanvapi: Mosque Panel May Move HC, Hindu Plaintiffs Term Verdict as ‘Foundation Stone’ of Temple

Advocate Akhlaque Ahmad, representing the mosque committee, told reporters that he and his team would review the 2,400-page judgment and then make a decision on future course of action.

Re-evaluate premature release policy for convicts serving life terms: SC to UP gov’t

Court ordered the UP government to consider releasing qualified life offenders covered under its 2018 policy within four months in an objective and transparent manner, with priority to elderly and ill inmates

Marital Rape: Supreme Court to hear batch of petitions on September 16

Bench to tag together all similar petitions against the split verdict of Delhi High Court bench on the marital rape exception for the next hearing

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

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From Arunachal to Delhi, anti-dam protesters face state crackdown; detained allege sexual assault

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