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The Guardians of the Ballot: Supreme Court hearing the legality of executive primacy in ECI appointments
Across two days of intense legal arguments, the Supreme Court scrutinising the 2023 Act governing the appointment of Election Commissioners, as petitioners argued that replacing the Chief Justice of India with a Union Minister creates a "Home Umpire" system, while the Bench questioned the limits of parliamentary power, counsel warned that executive dominance over the "referee" of democracy threatens the basic structure of free and fair elections
56 activists arrested in anti-CAA protests in Varanasi released
3 released activists were booked in another charge and have to file a fresh appeal for bail
Mumbai Police clamping down on anti-CAA protests?
Police deny permission for holding Jashn-e-Ekta on New Year’s...
Police Brutality, an American nightmare, once again becomes a reality in urban India
Protest against new Citizenship Bill see brutal crackdown on protests
NHRC receives complaint on police excess in Daryaganj
CJP Team -
The Commission has registered the complaint that retells the horrors of the night when 18 minors were detained
NHRC pulls up UP police for complaints on rights violations, deaths by police firing
CJP Team -
After receiving multiple complaints about violence against anti-CAA protesters, NHRC seeks a report from UP police
Fact-finding report reveals police brutality at Aurangabad and Phulwari Sharif
At the anti-CAA protest in Bihar on Dec 20, the police unleashed violence with impunity, ransacking homes and assaulting men, women and even children
UP sees the worst of Police Brutality
The CAA-NPR-NRC triple whammy has jolted the social and political conscience in the country. As the protests kept spreading, the government started getting wary of the public sentiment which is holding on to the secularity and rejecting a law that discriminates on religious lines and aims to eliminate or marginalise the Muslim community.
‘Bloody Sunday 2019’- PUDR releases report on Jamia police brutalities
A fact finding team of the People’s Union of Democratic Rights gives a view of what happened on Dec 13 and 15 at JMIU during the anti-CAA protests
Calcutta HC prevents deportation of Rohingya couple, wins hearts
The High Court passed an injunction to restrain the government from deporting a Rohingya couple, on humanitarian grounds.
Fact finding report reveals excesses by Meerut police against Muslims
Fact-finding report by activists alleges that Muslim neighbourhoods were targeted and violence may have been unleashed deliberately
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