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Ex-TISS student gets bail as Mumbai Court rejects Maoist link based on ‘suspicion’

Court rejects the prosecution’s attempt to link Abhirup Ashim Paul to Maoist activities, holding that books, slogans and association with a student group could not by themselves establish such a connection

Hathras Horror: UP Police in damage control mode with multiple FIRs, arrests

Uttar Pradesh police, under BJP-led state gov't, borrowing a leaf from Delhi Police playbook?

Delhi pogrom 2020 reminded me of Mumbai riots 1992: Justice (retd) B N Srikrishna

The  report by The Lawyers Initiative, titled Delhi Riots of 2020: Causes, Fallout and Aftermath, records events from months before the first stone was hurled in North East Delhi. 

Intercepted, questioned, harassed: A typical day for Kashmiri journalists

Fahad Shah, editor-in-chief, of the news portal The Kashmir Walla, recalls his experience of being intercepted, and interrogated as he was returning home after covering farmer protests in Punjab. He shared the following statement on social media. 

UP Police deliberately obstructing justice in rape cases?

Report by CHRI and AALI lays bare a strategy of delayed FIRs, intimidation tactics and pressure to ‘compromise’

Over 10,000 citizens demand immediate action against accused: Hathras

'Crimes against women and Dalits have increased, and police have been given unlimited powers without any accountability.'

The judiciary is abandoning its duties: NAPM on the Babri Masjid judgment

The People’s Alliance rejects the judgment by the Special CBI Court, demands it be challenged in the High Court.

Delhi Police register case against peaceful protesters demanding justice for Hathras Dalit victim

Police say protesters gathered at Jantar Mantar, violated Section 144 CrPC, charged them under section 188 of IPC, 3 Epidemic Act and 51(b) Disaster Management Act

Where does the law stand on your “objectionable” posts on social media?

Analysing the sections 501 of the IPC that talks about printing or engraving any defamatory matter) and section 67 of the IT Act considering section 66A now stands unconstitutional.

Rape survivor dies by suicide, family allege police inaction

A woman in Madhya Pradesh was sexually assaulted by three people while the country raged against the Hathras case.

It has shocked our conscience: Allahabad HC takes cognisance of Hathras incident

The court has issued notice to DGP, SP of Hathras as well as Additional Chief Secretary and seeks to know if undue advantage of the family’s economic status was taken while dealing in the matter

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