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When Family Becomes Custody: Allahabad HC holds adult women’s faith, residence and liberty cannot be placed under parental control
Holding that an alleged unlawful conversion cannot become a licence for private confinement, the Court separates the legality of religious conversion from the legality of detention—and holds the father and Uttar Pradesh State jointly liable for ₹25 lakh in constitutional compensation
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Why is Police demanding people’s documents in Benaras
This is the first question that comes to mind when you watch the video news report posted by UP Tak, a digital news channel in which the police can be seen looking at people’s ID documents, especially those hailing from West Bengal.
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
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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
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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.
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