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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

UP Police arrest Odisha man for sedition after VHP member alleges threatening calls

Initially only a case of criminal intimidation was made but further investigation allegedly revealed, his social media posts had derogatory remarks against the PM

‘Delhi Police Has No Evidence So It’s Resorting to Fabricated Statements’: Umar Khalid

Here is the full text of the activist's letter to the Commissioner of Police, Delhi alleging acquaintances are being coerced into making statements implicating Khalid.

Local court drops Modi’s name from three Guj riots civil suits

Case related to killing of three British nationals in Pranjit taluka of Sabarkantha district

Stop coercing ‘confessional’ statements to manufacture evidence in Delhi Violence cases!

Eminent citizens raise objections to riots’ probe, ask Delhi Police to stop falsely implicating people, and wrongly invoking UAPA to fuel theories of anti-state ‘conspiracy’

Promoting fraternity: Courts to the rescue

Stay on transmission of hate programme of Sudarshan TV

Victim cannot appeal against inadequate sentence: SC

The victim’s right to appeal was enhanced by a 2009 amendment to CrPC, yet it comes with some restrictions

Justice for Namma Gauri

After the Karnataka SIT's stellar investigation in the Gauri Lankesh assassination conspiracy, 17 people were arrested and one is absconding

SC directs 48,000 shanties to be razed along railways track in Delhi

The order was in connection with a petition filed by MC Mehta in 1985 in which the court has been intermittently passing orders in the interest of control of pollution on Delhi

SC: Punjab SHO denied pre-arrest bail in custodial torture case

The petitioner had approached the apex court challenging the Punjab and Haryana HC order denying him anticipatory bail as the SIT found some truth in allegations

Northeast Delhi riots: Crime Branch questions activist Umar Khalid again

The former JNU scholar was last questioned in August under the same investigation, and his phone was seized

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Assam: Gauhati HC quashes NSA detention of activist Pranab Doley

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