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Ex-TISS student gets bail as Mumbai Court rejects Maoist link based on ‘suspicion’

Court rejects the prosecution’s attempt to link Abhirup Ashim Paul to Maoist activities, holding that books, slogans and association with a student group could not by themselves establish such a connection

Four years behind bars, Sharjeel Imam still waits for a fair trial

Serving as an under trial prisoner since 2020 and not convicted so far, Sharjeel Imam, taken into custody after the anti-CAA movements when activists associated with the movement were being arrested, has completed more than half of the maximum sentence that the cases against him suggest

Mira Road: Muslim youth allegedly beaten in custody, denied food as Nitesh Rane tells supporters, “The Government is with you.”

Last week Mumbai’s Mira Road saw widespread violence as a mob of Hindutva supporters had rallied in the area and subjected the residents and their properties to violence. Rane, implicated earlier for making incendiary statements allegedly, once again is in the news for a controversial speech

Bombay HC refuses to prohibit Maratha reservation activist Manoj Jarange Patil’s protest in Mumbai on republic day

The division bench of the HC stated that the State has the power to take necessary measures to prevent law and order situation, blockage of roads; the morcha has reached Panvel today, and will be entering Mumbai tomorrow morning

Five FTII Pune students booked by police for “hurting religious sentiments” over displaying ‘Remember Babri’ banner

FIR based on complaint of president of the women's wing Hindutva group that barged into the FTII campus, indulged in vandalism and assaults; out of the seven names mentioned in the FIR, two are fake

Why no action against hate monger, BJP leader, Vikram Pawaskar asks Bombay HC

The high court bench also directed the police to ensure protection of petitioner, witness in the cause after concerns of safety were raised in the hearing

Students of the law move Bombay High Court challenging declaration of holiday on Ram Mandir inauguration day

According to the petition, the State government decision is nothing but expending from government exchequer for religious purpose which is prohibited under the Constitution. 

Bilkis Bano Case: Applications for extension to surrender to jail authorities by eleven convicted dismissed by SC

After having their remission quashed, two weeks were granted before surrender, applications were move by 11 convicted to SC citing marriage, harvesting winter produce, ill health

Muslim women need not move court to register divorce by talaq: Kerala High Court

The Court noticed and addressed a gap in the Kerala Registration of Marriages (Common) Rules, 2008 which did not provide for the registration of divorces that are obtained under personal law.

Bilkis Bano vindicated!

Persisting when anyone else would have dithered, Bilkis Bano and husband, Yakub Rasool kept their faith in the law and the Constitution

Chhattisgarh & Maharashtra: SC directs police to ensure no hate speech by BJP MLA Raja Singh & Hindu Jan Jagruti Samiti rallies

Even after the bench accepted that some of the speeches delivered by Singh previously were “certainly objectionable”, they refused to decline to stop the rallies, take pre-emptive action

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