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Inside the SSP’s Office: Allegations of beatings, torture & police impunity against farmer leaders in Meerut, UP
Digvijay Bhati and Mohit Jatav allege they were beaten, tied up and humiliated inside police premises; the allegations come weeks after the Meerut police faced scrutiny over its crackdown on protests demanding justice for a Dalit woman
Structured discrimination has ensured 21 % of undertrial population is SC, 17.4 % Muslim and 34.3 % are OBCs; Justice Muralidhar
Indian laws are structured to discriminate against the poor, says Orissa HC chief justice
Khargone’s Muslim outfits accuse police of only arresting Muslims
While officials are unable to comment on this accusation, community members are already suffering harassment due to the demolition of houses
Supreme Court directs Uttarakhand Govt to file status report on FIRs in ‘Dharam Sansad’ meet
Petitioners allege laxity on part of Uttarakhand and Delhi police, point out next ‘Sansad’ meet due on Sunday in Himachal Pradesh
Revolutionary poet activist Varavara Rao’s medical bail extended by 3 months
Bombay HC grants medical bail extension but refuses permanent bail and disallows travel to Hyderabad
Emergence of ‘Super States’ in India
What happens when we allow our elected representatives to violate human rights in the name of “national security”?
Delhi court stays order directing withdrawal of Look Out circular against Aakar Patel
Court asks Patel to seek Court’s permission before leaving the country
Activists claim Karnataka police under tremendous political pressure
Tired of appealing to various police officials, activists openly call out the political pressure preventing the executive from performing its duties
Ajmer Collector bans crowds, religious flags and loudspeakers after Karauli violence
Fearing violence during religious festivals, the Ajmer administration calls for a slew of bans and restrictions until May 7
Does news of assaults on journalists not reach any minister’s reading list?
Journalists have allegedly been arrested, stripped, assaulted and intimidated in different states across the country, all for speaking truth to power
Karnataka police allegedly delays FIR against claim of “spitting jihad”
Activists eager for police action against hate-spreader criticise officials for their inefficiency in lodging an FIR against a reported hate-monger
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India
Adieu Comrade Thankappan – Javed Anand, Roma, Teesta Setalvad
Three associates of D Thankappan, Javed Anand, Roma and Teesta Setalvad pay their tributes to this man of action and intellect who was a leading light in India’s trade union movement. D Thankappan, ailing for some years, passed away early this morning, September 2, at his home in Airoli, New Bombay. He was 87.
Education
Maharashtra’s schools are struggling to survive as students protest, infrastructure crumbles and Marathi-medium institutions disappear
From Adivasi students on hunger strike to Class 10 students demanding teachers, government schools without electricity and internet, and hundreds of schools facing the loss of grant-in-aid, Maharashtra’s education crisis is increasingly visible on the streets
Dalits
The Ambedkarite Champ: 15-year-old Vandan Sawai defeats chess great Magnus Carlsen
Delhi Class X student beat Magnus Carlsen in an online blitz game after returning from a six-week Europe trip; his parents learnt about the result later from his Chess.com profile
Children
Six-year-old detained during Patna teacher aspirants’ protest, parents allege police assault
Patna Police say the child was ‘rescued’ from a potentially dangerous crowd, while his parents allege that the family was taken to a police station, where they were assaulted and kept for nearly seven hours
Education
The ‘Reservation Hatao Andolan’ Isn’t a Gen Z Uprising. It’s a Rerun
The demand to “remove reservation” is one of the oldest, most recycled slogans in independent India’s political life, and it has failed, in more or less identical form, every single time it has been tried.