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From Cow Slaughter to “Public Order”: Allahabad High Court’s expanding use of preventive detention

Through detailed reliance on fear, timing, intelligence inputs, and administrative response, the Court stretches “public order” to justify preventive detention—raising difficult questions about liberty, evidence, and constitutional limits

Kashmir: What Will Happen to Article 370 and 35(A)?

The deteriorating situation of Kashmir is a matter of...

Victory for Mahul residents: SC disposes of BMC’s petition, directs payment of rent

SC sees no grounds in issuing further clarifications as...

Brinda Karat: Misuse of FRA for Benefiting Corporates?

The Supreme Court is going to decide on the...

Kin of acquitted Samleti blast accused demands Compensation for 25 years

Five men acquitted by Jaipur High Court after 23...

Public prosecutor in the Una Dalit atrocity case quits

Citing reasons of security and remuneration, special public prosecutor...

After 23 years in Prison on false charges, five Men walk out free in Samleti Blast case

Ask, who will bring back those years?Image Courtesy: Indian...

Activist organises anti-lynching event, Mumbai Police land up at her doorstep

In what seems like a brazen attempt to intimidate...

The Right to Life & Livelihood – over 30,000 Adivasis/Forest Dwellers take to the Streets

Several thousand forest dwellers participate in nation-wide protests against...

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From Cow Slaughter to “Public Order”: Allahabad High Court’s expanding use of preventive detention

Through detailed reliance on fear, timing, intelligence inputs, and administrative response, the Court stretches “public order” to justify preventive detention—raising difficult questions about liberty, evidence, and constitutional limits

From FIRs to “Corporate Jihad”: How the TCS Nashik case was transformed from an investigation into a communal narrative

As police probe serious claims of harassment, a parallel story of conspiracy and conversion dominates public discourse

Telangana: Stop forcible ‘re-location of Chenchu Adivasis from Amrabad Tiger Reserve

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Victory for Forest Rights: Allahabad HC recognises land claims of Tharu Tribes, strikes down decision of DLC

The Allahabad High Court recently struck down a 2021 decision of the District Level Committee (DLC), Lakhimpur upholding the land rights of the Tharu tribe while observing that the authorities cannot short-circuit the existing statutory rights of the forest dwellers by blindly relying on court orders issued before the enactment of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 (FRA, 2006). This law recognises the individual and community rights of Adivasis.

Amendment to Women’s Reservation Bill: BJP’s hyperbole on women

The past conduct and ideological moorings of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as that of its parent body, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) reflect not just extreme and exclusivist views on women’s participation but are arguably distinctly misogynistic

Police action in Odisha’s Rayagada district condemned, Adivasi rights paramount: CCG

The Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG) in an Open Letter to the President of India has condemned Odisha police’s wrongful dispossession of Adivasi lands in the state and violent action against protesting tribals