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Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

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

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

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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Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

Malegaon 2006 Blast Case: Bombay High Court rejects NIA’s ‘alternate narrative’, holds prosecution built on contradictions and inadmissible evidence

Holding that “diagonally opposite” narratives by investigative agencies cannot sustain a trial, the Court finds the NIA’s case rooted in retracted statements, hearsay material, and a legally impermissible reinvestigation—bringing the prosecution to a “dead end”

Delhi court orders FIR against Abhijit Iyer Mitra for sexually abusive posts targeting women journalists

Court finds tweets “sexually coloured,” prima facie intended to outrage modesty; directs police probe into X account and devices

From Cow Slaughter to “Public Order”: Allahabad High Court’s expanding use of preventive detention

Through detailed reliance on fear, timing, intelligence inputs, and administrative response, the Court stretches “public order” to justify preventive detention—raising difficult questions about liberty, evidence, and constitutional limits

From FIRs to “Corporate Jihad”: How the TCS Nashik case was transformed from an investigation into a communal narrative

As police probe serious claims of harassment, a parallel story of conspiracy and conversion dominates public discourse