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Allahabad HC quashes NSA detention of Aakriti Chaudhary, questions ‘concocted’ State narrative in Noida workers’ protest case

Court questions arrest chronology, missing video evidence and alleged procedural violations in Noida workers’ protest case  

Install CCTVs in police stations: CJP to Assam Police

Memorandum backed by organisations of lawyers, farmers and workers highlights SC directives from a year ago

Zakia Jafri SLP: SIT stands by Magistrate court’s decision

The SIT submitted that the court should not exercise its jurisdiction in this matter as it would put the criminal justice in a fix.

Anirban Roy Choudhury, editor of Barak Bulletin, accused of Sedition

An FIR has been registered U/S 153 - A, 124 -A, 501 and 505 of Indian Penal Code, for an editorial published on November 28; Choudhury is expected to report to Silchar Sadar Police Station today

Failure to take cognisance of chargesheet does not entail default bail under UAPA: Bombay HC

A closer look at why the court granted bail to Sudha Bharadwaj, but denied it to her eight co-accused in the Bhima Koregaon case

Zakia Jafri SLP: Gujarat gov’t offers no defence, launches smear campaign against Teesta Setalvad

Solicitor General fails to defend State, digs up old cases where Setalvad has either been exonerated or given protection by courts

Muslim man alleges torture in police custody in Bengaluru

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Whitefield) has asked for “a report from the Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP)” after youth loses arm to infected wound

MEA lashes out against OHCHR comment on Khurram Parvez’s arrest

Arindam Bagchi, spokesperson, Ministry of External Affairs defends Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, says OHCHR doesn’t understand the security challenges of Jammu and Kashmir

Assam: Prime suspect in AASU leader’s lynching dies mysteriously in custody

Police claim Neeraj Kumar Das died in a road accident while trying to flee while being transported by the police

Zakia Jafri SLP: SIT continues to pat its own back, denies lacunae in investigation

As the SIT continued to make its submissions before the Supreme Court, it pointed out how the findings of the Nanavati Commission were concurrent with its own, including discrediting the petitioner’s main witnesses

Bhima Koregaon case: Bombay HC grants Sudha Bharadwaj bail

The activist had spent three years behind bars and applied for default bail; court rejected bail for eight others

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Allahabad HC quashes NSA detention of Aakriti Chaudhary, questions ‘concocted’ State narrative in Noida workers’ protest case

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3,404 SIR Forms Found at Kharghar Xerox Shop: CJP, VFD and BCS demands answers from Maharashtra SEC

The discovery of original voter Enumeration Forms outside official custody, followed by the suspension of five BLOs, raises serious questions over the security and integrity of Maharashtra’s electoral-roll revision process; citizens groups demand a comprehensive inquiry

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.

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

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

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