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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
India’s dark history of custodial abuse
Why deaths occur in police custody everyday even today?
Not even 1 percent habeas corpus cases decided since August: J&K Bar Associations to CJI
The Bar has written to the CJI after repeated attempts to approach the Chief Justice of J&K High Court did not elicit favorable response
Ahmedabad violence: HC grants bail to 4 accused as no specific case is made out
The four are among the 27 people arrested for being a part of a mob that allegedly assaulted the police and pelted stones at them
Begin Again: Citizens see red over Mumbai Police’s 2km travel radius restriction
Whoever violates the order will have vehicles impounded the police has said
Students protested without permission; tear gas was “avoidable”: NHRC report on Jamia violence
The Commission, in a shocking report, has seemingly absolved the police for using brute force in unarmed students and blamed the students for destroying public property and for protesting without permission.
NAPM condemns the alleged custodial torture and death of Jayaraj and Bennicks by TN police
The organization demands for the end the regime of police torture and custodial terror
Madras HC orders Judicial Magistrate to conduct inquiry into alleged custodial deaths in Tuticorin
Father-son duo Jayaraj and Bennicks who were allegedly tortured by the police for violating lockdown norms, died four days after being taken into custody
Supreme Court stays coercive action on multiple FIRs against Amish Devgan
The apex court also stayed FIRs on OpIndia registered against it by the West Bengal police
Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha demands probe into activist Ramji Munda’s murder
The activist had exposed the alleged state and police repression during the Pathalgadi movement in Ghaghara in 2018
K’taka HC’s bail order questioning morality of rape survivor prompts open letter from civil society
Concerned citizens and civil society organisations write that the order brings back memories of Mathura and Bhanwari Devi's cases
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