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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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Won’t allow Kashmir to be turned into a graveyard: PADG
The People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration has demanded a time-bound judiciary inquiry into Hyderpora killings
UAPA is used as preventive detention law, without it being one: Ex-civil servants petition SC
Petitioners point out that abysmally low rates of successful prosecutions show that the Act is arbitrarily used more to quell dissent
Delhi: Police complaint against standup comedian Vir Das for ‘maligning India’s image’
Another police complaint has been lodged against Vir Das in Delhi by one Aditya Jha, said to be a BJP member
Zakia Jafri SLP: Mass mobilization, hate speech, Intel warnings ignored in investigation
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Petitioners delves into Intelligence agency messages which had warned the police to take preventive action, and also some transcripts of the Tehelka tapes
SC appoints retired P&H HC judge Rakesh Jain to monitor Lakhimpur Kheri probe
The apex court also included three IPS officers in the SIT, including one woman, after expressing dissatisfaction with the probe
No coercive steps to be taken against journalist, lawyers charged by Tripura Police: Supreme Court
Supreme Court issues notice to the Tripura government on petition challenging FIR registered under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act
SIT shunned 2002 reports of EC, NHRC: Zakia Jafri SLP
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Many reports that were readily available for the SIT much before it was constituted, and yet these were not examined by it.
Uttar Pradesh: Young man dies on return from police questioning, family alleges torture
According to the family the man was allegedly detained by local police who suspected him to be involved in a case of loot, but was tortured in custody, and once released died last night
Kashmir: Four killed in Hyderpora gunfight
IGP Kashmir says civilian was "militant associate", family denies charge
Lakhimpur Kheri killings: Sessions Court rejects bail plea of Ashish Mishra, two others
Citing Lakhimpur violence as a “serious matter” the sessions court rejects the bail plea of Mishra and two other accused
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