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‘Deportation Cannot Begin without Nationality Verification’: Union’s Rajubala affidavit clarifies legal limits on executive power

In an affidavit filed in the Rajubala Das case, the Union reaffirms that deportation requires nationality verification, travel documents and acceptance by the receiving State, while setting out the legal framework governing detention pending deportation

Hate watch: Delhi Police to probe case of man threatening biryani shop worker

Vigilante accused who reportedly introduced himself as Naresh Kumar Suryavanshi, was seen in video spreading communal hate, threatening Muslims but is yet to be arrested

Assam: CBI arrests Opposition leader’s brother

Ashok Saikia furnishes proof of loan repayment, was there an ulterior motive behind arrest?

Tripura Police demand suspension of 68 Twitter profiles for comments on communal clashes

Accounts were accused of spreading "distorted" content about the recent communal clashes in the state, some more may have been booked under UAPA

Evicted families will be rehabilitated only if name appears in NRC: Assam Gov’t to Gauhati HC

State claims 1,000 bhigas of land set aside for rehabilitation, but it is not for “encroachers”

Lakhimpur Kheri killings: Two more farmers arrested for alleged lynching of BJP workers

Farmer leaders calls for a judicial investigation overseen by the Supreme Court

Notice under UAPA: A never ending spiral of detention

Two lawyers issued notice under UAPA to appear before Tripura Police for releasing a fact finding report on targeted violence against Muslim minorities in the state. Is there any way to escape the dreadful UAPA, once such a notice is issued?

EXCLUSIVE: Lives shattered further for evicted families in Assam as three infants die

The families were left shelter-less and to the mercy of the elements after they were thrown out of their homes and their huts levelled to the ground

Tripura violence: Delhi-based lawyers booked under UAPA over social media posts

Advocate Ehtesham Hashmi, who lead the group says there is nothing anti-national and unconstitutional in the posts or the fact finding report

Every crime against SC/ST cannot be offence under the Atrocities Act: K’taka HC

The court held that if motive for crime is not casteist attack, then the special Act for protecting scheduled castes and scheduled tribes cannot be invoked

Dainik Jagran fails to get injunction against Alt News

An Alt News article had alleged that Dainik Jagran had undermined Covid-19 deaths by claiming that mass burials were quite common at the Shringverpur ghat; the court said one cannot stifle freedom of speech

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