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When Protest becomes a “Threat”: Inside the Supreme Court hearing on Sonam Wangchuk’s NSA detention

From alleged “Arab Spring inspiration” to missing exculpatory material, the case raises stark questions about preventive detention, free speech, and governance in India’s border regions

Gyanvapi case: Varanasi court reserves order on admitting petition pertaining to FIR against mosque committee

VVSS, a Hindutva group had moved court demanding FIR against mosque authorities for allegedly damaging parts of temple located on mosque premises

Jharkand HC to hear PIL demanding NIA probe into Ranchi violence on June 24

The PIL filed by one Pankaj Yadav has has demanded NIA investigation into the entire incident. A division bench comprising chief justice Dr Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad first heard the PIL on June 17

Custodial Torture Case: Gujarat HC orders a probe into allegations

Pulling up the police for “misleading the court,”, HC orders state to file a fresh affidavit with “some concrete action and promptness”, grants time till July 4

India in the age of State-sponsored Doxing

A closer look at the legal provisions surrounding revealing private information of individuals

Mumbai Court grants bail to three students in the Bulli Bai app case

A Mumbai court while granting bail to three students in the Bulli Bai app case, which targeted Muslim women by arranging for their "auction", held that their "immature age and understanding" was misused by other accused with "deeper understanding".

Allegations of selective demolitions are false, Due process of law followed: UP gov’t to SC

State urges SC to hold the petitioners to terms for the false and baseless allegations

Gyanvapi case: Plea demanding FIR against mosque authorities to be heard on June 23

Varanasi Civil Judge Ravi Kumar Diwakar, who ordered video survey of mosque premises, among 619 judges transferred by Allahabad HC

Repair, compensate, prosecute: Parveen Fatima in petition before Allahabad HC

The petition demands restitution; prays for reconstruction of the bull-dozed residence, alternate government accommodation in in the interim and punishment of officials responsible for illegal act

Naini Central jail fails to notify kin on Javed Mohammad’s transfer

Wife Parveen Fatima writes an open letter about administration’s highhandedness

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

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When Protest becomes a “Threat”: Inside the Supreme Court hearing on Sonam Wangchuk’s NSA detention

From alleged “Arab Spring inspiration” to missing exculpatory material, the case raises stark questions about preventive detention, free speech, and governance in India’s border regions

Hate Speech Before the Supreme Court: From judicial activism to institutional closure

How a six-year constitutional conversation — spanning ‘Corona Jihad’, ‘UPSC Jihad’, Dharam Sansads, contempt petitions, and preventive policing — culminated in the Supreme Court reserving orders and closing most hate-speech cases

Indian Agriculture: Between the 2026 Union budget & US-India trade deal, a huge setback for Indian farmers

While the Indian corporate media has hailed the reduction of tariffs to the US, now at 18 per cent (still up from the previous single digit figures), it is the blanket non-tariff barriers to US agriculture goods that will hit Indian farmers hard

Hidden Histories: A rare memory of the struggle for freedom in a Himalayan kingdom

While large parts of modern India’s contribution to the sub-continent’s struggle for freedom find place in historical accounts, the author tracks this unreported hidden struggle against colonial yoke in the Himalayan kingdom of Tehri 

Five Things Mamata Banerjee Said After Meeting CEC Over SIR

In November, the chief minister had asked the CEC to halt the SIR in the poll-bound state, claiming that the BLOs had not been provided adequate training, support or time.

Parade of Public Shaming: How Rajasthan police’s illegal “arrest rituals” replace due process with public defilement

In open defiance of law, Supreme Court guidelines, and even their own DGP’s orders, Rajasthan Police have normalised the public parading of accused and suspects, turning due process into a degrading public spectacle—an illegality repeated through 2025 with the state’s top police office remaining silent

How defending a 70-year-old Muslim shopkeeper triggered FIRs, highway blockades, and a law-and-order crisis in Uttarakhand

What began as a local intervention against alleged intimidation over a shop’s name spiralled into right-wing mobilisation, multiple FIRs, and a national debate on selective policing, free speech, and communal harmony in Kotdwar