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Assam: Gauhati HC quashes NSA detention of activist Pranab Doley
Doley was arrested in July this year for a protest against a hotel project near Kaziranga, and had been booked under the nefarious National Security Act (NSA) after a court granted him bail; Forum for Social Harmony, AMSU-AIKMS and BAA accuse the Assam government of criminalising land rights activism
Assam Police Firing: Farmers and workers unions demand justice for victims and survivors
Team of representatives of various unions visits Dhalpur, demands rehabilitation and compensation for affected families
Lakhimpur Kheri deaths: A Timeline
Preceding and ensuing events of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident reject the notion that the violence was incited by protesting farmers
Madras HC quashes cases against anti-CAA protestors, says no prima facie case established
The court also observed that right to protest is recognised by law, and that no violation of law took place during the protest
Visit prisons, interview inmates, gauge prison conditions: MP High Court to CJMs, DLSA
The order was passed in a suo moto petition taken up by the court concerned with condition of overcrowded prisons during the second wave of Covid-19
K’taka HC directs state gov’t to come up with scholarship for children of manual scavengers
The court has given the government 30 days to come up with a uniform scheme for the same
Lakhimpur Kheri: Main accused yet to be arrested, Opposition leaders being detained
An FIR has been registered against Ashish Mishra, compensations for victims announced, as politics hots up over the issue
Lakhimpur Kheri violence: SC laments how nobody takes responsibility when such incidents happen
Last night, four farmers were killed when they were allegedly run over by Ashish Mishra, the son of Union Minister of State (MoS) for Home Ajay Mishra
Uttar Pradesh: Eight dead in violence at Lakhimpur Kheri, including four farmers after Minister’s son allegedly drives over them
Earlier, Haryana CM had told his followers to “pick up Lathis and “give it back” to the protesting farmers
Supreme Court raps UP, says ‘laxity’ in action against policemen: 2002 encounter killing
Noting that the father of the deceased has been pursuing justice for two decades, a bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Aniruddha Bose said, “The laxity with which state has proceeded in the present case speaks volumes of how state machinery is defending or protecting its own police officers.”
Haryana: Police use water cannons on protesting farmers in Jhajjar
Farmers allege authorities used "dirty" water, blatantly disregarding their basic human rights
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