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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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UP police arrests more than 80 people in 2 days since Ayodhya verdict
Action has been taken against 8,275 social media posts that attempted to disturb communal harmony
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Invisibilisation of Muslim Grief: Babri Verdict
Post the SC verdict, the media focus refuses to shift from the legal debate of “Ayodhya” to the capturing of the common sentiment about “Babri” of the Muslim minority in India
Glaring loose ends: Is all fair in the Ayodhya verdict?
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Ayodhya still awaits justice
One cannot say justice has been done in the Ayodhya- Babri Masjid case. While the land dispute has been resolved and the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board through its Chairman has said that it will not file any review or curative petition against the Supreme Court’s verdict pronounced today, one important issue remains unresolved till date; serving justice on the perpetrators and culprits who orchestrated the fateful and unwarranted demolition of the long standing Babri masjid the December of 1992.
Ahead of Ayodhya verdict, internet shuts down, panic buying starts: UP
The internet shutdown could be imposed in other districts too, to check spread of communally sensitive posts and rumours.
India Justice Report 2019 shows country’s failing criminal justice system
India has only 1 police personnel for every 663 individuals. Most states and Union Territories (UTs) spend less than Rs. 100 per prisoner per day.
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