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Brij Bhushan Acquittal: The system vs the wrestlers
Three years after their protest shook Indian sport, Vinesh Phogat and other wrestlers prepare for another legal battle over a verdict they reject
Bengali Migrant Workers Detained in Odisha: Calcutta High Court demands answers, seeks coordination between states
Court poses six pointed questions on detention of Sainur Islam and demands answers from Odisha over detention of youth during ‘identification drive’; Court directs West Bengal to appoint nodal officer
Bihar: SC signals that ECI should consider Aadhaar, EPIC (Voter ID card) & Ration card for electoral roll revision
Hearing a batch of petitions challenging the sudden “special intensive revision” being conducted in Bihar by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the Supreme Court (SC) pressed ECI to include Aadhaar, Voter ID Card, and Ration cards in Bihar's electoral roll revision process, since the only concern for the constitutional body was establishing accurate identity not citizenship
SC: ECI’s ‘wisdom’ on revision of electoral rolls challenged, does a disenfranchisement crisis loom over Bihar, with thousands being declared ‘‘D’ (doubtful) voters?
The ECI's credibility, already under sharp public scrutiny post-Lok Sabha Elections 2024, is further strained by its Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR) order of June 24, a controversial directive announced even after electoral rolls were finalised in January 2025: the move faces multiple judicial challenges before the Supreme Court. Hearings are scheduled before a vacation bench tomorrow, July 10
Bordering on illegality? 18 alleged Bangladeshis “pushed back” without due process, Legal challenge filed in High Court
CM Sarma announces fresh deportations and vows to expand the eviction campaign; PIL in Gauhati High Court allege constitutional violations, unlawful detentions, and a pattern of arbitrary expulsions targeting Muslims and marginalised groups
“Even a Murderer Wouldn’t Do This”: Ajith Kumar’s custodial death and Tamil Nadu’s shameful culture of impunity
A 29-year-old temple guard was tortured to death in custody over a flimsy theft allegation with his body bearing 44 injuries, his last hours recorded on video. As Tamil Nadu reels, data shows a damning pattern: custodial deaths rise, convictions remain zero
Justice Deferred: J&K High Court stays repatriation of 63-year-old woman deported after Pahalgam attack, following MHA appeal
Despite a scathing ruling that termed her deportation unconstitutional and inhumane, the Ministry of Home Affairs has secured a stay on a High Court order directing the return of Rakshanda Rashid, a long-time resident and LTV holder, raising urgent concerns about due process, state overreach, and judicial inconsistency
Bombay High Court orders FIR in Somnath Suryawanshi custodial death case, slams police for delay and bias
Aurangabad Bench directs FIR within a week; finds prima facie evidence of custodial torture and criticises state police and CID for a biased probe into Somnath Suryawanshi’s death after the Parbhani protests
How the Delhi riots case remains stagnant with close to a dozen student leaders incarcerated
CJP Team -
A look back at the trajectory of the Delhi Riots case(s), especially the infamous and belatedly registered FIR 59/2020 reveals a litany of procedural and substantive failures, together resulting in the incarceration without bail, for five long years, ten student activists and human rights defenders and one more politician as “accused”
“Sambhal: Anatomy of an Engineered Crisis”- How a peaceful Muslim-majority town was turned into a site of manufactured communal conflict
Released six months after the violence, this fact-finding report of the APCR exposes how state agencies, institutions, and communal actors colluded to construct a crisis in Sambhal through illegal mosque surveys, police firing, mass detentions, and myth-driven temple claims; turning religious faith into a weapon and justice into a spectacle
A Question of Rights: Supreme Court backs teacher in maternity leave dispute
In a recent judgement where the SC upheld maternity relief to a teacher, for the first child of a second marriage (when she previously had had two children) balanced Tamil Nadu state’s policy on population control with fundamental rights like reproductive rights and child birth that cannot be interpreted in a vacuum
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