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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
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No criminality if Hate Speech made with smile: Delhi HC judge
Justice CD Singh made the remark while exonerating BJP leaders who made hateful and inflammatory speeches ahead of the 2020 Delhi riots
Indian judiciary on granting bail: Different strokes for different folks?
How hate offenders are often let off with a mild rap on the wrist, while dissenters continue to languish behind bars as virtual political prisoners
Delhi Police bust hotel’s claim of “order” to not accept IDs from J&K
A Delhi hotel’s employee claimed that “special cell” and “Delhi Police had instructed” that J&K identity document holders should not be given rooms
Kashmiri Pandit organisation files curative petition in SC
Roots in Kashmir seeks probe into the killings of Kashmiri Pandits in 1989-90
UP: Jaunpur police allegedly flog Dalit women
Visual show women bearing reddened welts on their bodies but police say medical reports does not show any trauma
Karnataka HC refuses to drop rape charges against husband
“If it is punishable to a man, it should be punishable to a man albeit, the man being a husband,” observed the court
Delhi Violence case: Dr. Umar Khalid denied bail in UAPA case surrounding larger conspiracy
After deferring the bail order thrice, Delhi court denies bail to the scholar and socio-political activist
12 people died in police custody in 2021: Assam CM
Over a span of seven months, more than 60 incidents of custodial violence were reported last year
Delhi HC asks for Centre’s opinion on declaring the Child Marriage ‘void ab initio’
Court issues notice to Ministry of Law and Justice and National Commission for Women
UP Police harassing journalist Ashish Dixit?
The local journalist alleged that the police have filed fake FIRs against him due to his work as a journalist in the area
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