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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

Hate Buster! Kolkata cop was not killed by mob protesting Nupur Sharma’s anti-Prophet comments

Constable Choudup Lepcha died by suicide after opening fire on passersby and shooting dead a woman outside the Bangladesh High Commission in Park Circus

No innocent should ever be jailed, my life is dedicated to get other innocents released: Abdul Wahid Shaikh

Abdul Wahid Shaikh talks to Sabrang India’s Vallari Sanzgiri in an interview about his experience as an accused in the 2006 Mumbai train bomb blast case

Yati Narsinghanand under House Arrest after declaring intention to visit Delhi’s Jama Masjid

Serial Hate Offender Narsinghanand was supposed to visit Jama Masjid on Friday to show support for Nupur Sharma

Provable connection between police and people who planted false evidence against Bhima-Koregaon accused: SentinelOne

Wired reports that Sentinel One has unearthed a connection between cops who arrested the accused and Modified Elephant, a hacking campaign that allegedly planted evidence on the devices of activists

Demolitions by the playbook, unprecedented even in pre-independence India: Senior Counsel to SC in Bulldozer Injustice case

SC orders no ‘out of turn demolitions’ to take place until next hearing date i.e. June 21

Delhi HC dismisses Brinda Karat’s plea seeking FIR against BJP Leaders for alleged Hate Speech

Court rejected the plea filed against Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma for their 2020 hate speech

Ranchi Violence: Principal Secretary demands explanation from police for hoardings with images of alleged rioters

Jharkhand Police had put up these hoardings in popular public places, and then taken them down; now Allahabad police have released images

Allahabad’s Nagrik Samaj demands justice for illegal demolition victims

The citizen’s group raised their voice against officials for giving in to a "police raj"

SC to hear urgent petitions against UP demolitions today

Court to hear two separate intervention applications filed by Jamiat-Ulema-i-Hind, seeking a stay on the spate of demolitions in Saharanpur, Prayagraj, and Kanpur

Ranchi violence: Images of alleged rioters released, then taken down by Jharkhand Police

Earlier the governor of the state had given the go ahead to make public identities of the alleged rioters

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When Conservation Becomes Coercion: The silent violence faced by the Tharus of Kheri

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Lives in the Margins: Reading India’s suicide data beyond the numbers

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CJP seeks action against Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and AIMIM’s Tausif Alam for election code violations in Bihar

In twin complaints to the Election Commission, Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) alleges Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and AIMIM candidate Tausif Alam of crossing constitutional red lines — one by communalising the campaign with hate-laden rhetoric, the other by threatening brutal violence against a rival, exposing the deep decay of democratic discourse in the Bihar elections

PIL filed in the Patna High Court, claims the MMR Yojana was used to influence voters by making payments after the MCC was in effect

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From Campaign Trail to Communal Provocation: CJP files complaint against Bandi Sanjay Kumar for divisive campaigning in Hyderabad by-election

Mocking Islamic practices and appealing to Hindu identity for votes, CJP’s complaint says that the BJP leader’s remarks violate the Model Code of Conduct, the Representation of the People Act, and the spirit of India’s secular Constitution

Say No to ‘Toxic Governance’: Arrest air pollution, not activists and protesters: NACEJ

The Delhi NCR Pollution crisis needs firm, well-implemented policy shifts and institutional action against prime causes of pollution, not citizens: Restore Fundamental Right to Breathe, says a nationwide alliance dedicated to the battle for a cleaner environment and against climate change.