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‘Serious Grievances’: Bombay HC backs students’ concerns, MPSC protests continue in Pune
Bombay High Court directs Maharashtra government to explain recruitment backlog and restore trust; two of three protest sites remain occupied, with Rohit Pawar-led agitation refusing to move
Brutalising Innocence: A report on police excesses on minors in UP
A fact finding report reveals the horrific details of detention and torture of minors by the UP police
Election card is proof of citizenship: Court
Persons may lie but documents cannot, held the Court
Don’t label anti-CAA protesters ‘traitors’, people bound to defend rights in a democracy: Bombay HC
Drawing on the experiences of Indians non-violently fighting unjust laws under a colonial regime during India’s struggle for Independence, the Court said that an agitation cannot be suppressed only on the ground that people are agitating against the government
Allahabad HC stays recovery notice by UP government, matter pending in SC
Slew of such arbitrary notices had been served by the Adityanath government in December 2019-January 2020, many of whom were on innocent bystanders or peaceful protesters
Allahabad HC stays recovery notice against anti-CAA protestor
The HC has kept the hearing for April 20 and awaiting a similar petition in the SC
NRC Assam: Respite for excluded children if parents are in final list
CJP’s IA had secured the order from the SC that children who were excluded from the final NRC list if their parents’ names are in it not be sent to detention centers
AAP’s Amanatullah Khan’s kin beaten by UP police for election win
Khan’s family members reported that the police tortured them and even misbehaved with the women
Illegal Arrest of a penniless Adivasi: MP HC Court penalises govt officials, orders reparation
The Court used the Jurisprudential concept of ‘Constitutional Tort’, and said that since the State has arrogantly deprived an innocent person of his Liberty, the aggrieved person must be compensated for the loss of it’ Husan, an Adivasi has been granted Rs 5,00,000 as compensation for being deprived of his personal liberty.
Violation of SC directives: NRC final list vanishes from website
Though, the NRC state coordinator has brushed off the sudden disappearance of the data as a technical issue, insiders in the NRC office are of the opinion that this is a deliberate ploy by the present NRC authority
How SC has balanced the right to protest v/s public inconvenience: Shaheen Bagh
The SC’s oral remarks on the indefinite protest militates against its own set jurisprudence
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Public assembly demands the scrapping of SIR, accountability of the Election Commission and urgent safeguards against wrongful exclusion from electoral rolls
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Why Majoritarianism today is the single most acute threat to democracy
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‘Solidarity Is Not a Crime’: Mumbai activists protest alleged police harassment over Palestine event
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