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Judgement delivered, paradox prevails: every voter a citizen, but what is the fate of 51.8 million excluded?
The Supreme Court’s May 27, 2026 verdict upholding the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) settles the legal question of constitutional authority but leaves unresolved concerns on absence of due process and independent functioning by the ECI, the arbitrary abuse of process and access: questions of unreasonable and unchecked mass deletions etc.
SC highlights deplorable conditions in Matia detention Centre of Assam, calls it a “sorry state of affairs”
Supreme Court criticises the lack of adequate water supply, proper sanitation systems, or proper toilets in the detention centres, asks for report on food facilities and medical health within three weeks
Delhi High Court transfers to CBI the case involving Delhi violence victim Faizan who was attacked by the mob in police uniform and forced...
The court came down heavily on the Delhi Police and said that the investigation does not inspire confidence as it has done “too-little” and “too-late”; it further remarked that “custodians of the law…seemed to have been driven by bigoted mindsets”
Supreme Court stays directive of state forcing food sellers along Kanwar Yatra to display names, states authorities cannot usurp power without legal foundation
After issuing notices to the state of UP, Uttarakhand and MP, the Court asked the food sellers to display the kind of food being served as Kanwariyas may have dietary preferences
“Authorities cannot arbitrarily accuse people of being foreigners or initiate an investigation without a substantial basis” states Supreme Court while reinstating citizenship of a...
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The bench noted that there had been a serious injustice committed by the authorities since the start of the investigation while overturning the decision of the Foreigner's Tribunal and the judgment of the Gauhati High Court that had declared the appellant to be a foreigner.
Criminalising ‘Conversions’!
On 1 July 2024, Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal of...
Modi’s government bypasses SC & Law Commission, no nuanced, strong penal sections on Hate Speech: BNS, 2023
Why did the Modi-led Union Government ignore the Law Commission’s 267 th Report and evolving jurisprudence (judgements of the Supreme Court of India) on crucial suggestions to strengthen laws on Hate Speech?
Another elderly couple rejoice as their citizenship is restored with CJP’s help
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The ailing husband and wife were forced to appear before a Tribunal every month on mere suspicion of being foreigners even though they claimed that due process was never followed in declaring them as suspected foreigners. CJP’s assistance finally helps them restore their citizenship.
Mumbai: Shiv Sena leader granted bail, as son arrested for alleged case of hit and run
Shiva Sena (Eknath Shinde camp) leader Rajesh Shah’s son Mihir Shah has reportedly crashed his BMW into two people, following which the woman was dragged around the wheel of the car for about 1.5 km. Earlier absconding, Mihir Shah has now been arrested by the Mumbai Police.
FIR filed by UP police against 2 journalists, 3 others for putting out social media posts on an incident of alleged mob lynching of...
On July 5, an incident of mob lynching of a Muslim man was reported in UP, on July 6, the police booked those who put out social media posts on the incident while maintaining the same to be a case of culpable homicide, deemed the social media posts to be “malicious” and “wrong”
Allahabad HC’s recent judgement dubbed “saffron-tinged”, “fuelling fear among Christians,” says United Christian Forum
Raising a crucial question of whether “majoritarianism” is creeping into judicial pronouncements, the UCF, in a statement issued on July 4 has critiqued a July 1 judgement of the Allahabad HC that has made pronouncements on “conversions”
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Judgement delivered, paradox prevails: every voter a citizen, but what is the fate of 51.8 million excluded?
The Supreme Court’s May 27, 2026 verdict upholding the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) settles the legal question of constitutional authority but leaves unresolved concerns on absence of due process and independent functioning by the ECI, the arbitrary abuse of process and access: questions of unreasonable and unchecked mass deletions etc.
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