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Data is real, true wealth: SC issues notice in yet another plea challenging DPDP Act; highlights privacy concerns
This petition, filed by journalist Geeta Seshu, along with the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC) that also challenges the constitutional validity of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 will now be heard with other petitions filed in the matter by Reporter’s Collective, Nitin Sethi and Venkatesh Nayak, on March 23
Preventive detention laws have a colonial legacy with a high potential for abuse and misuse, only to be used in rarest of the rare...
Even today, numerous preventive detention laws and anti-terror legislations, which allow for arrest without a trial and the denial of anticipatory bail, remain a vital component of India's legal system
UP: Five days after attack on father of Dalit gang rape survivor, two infants and survivor set on fire at home by gang-rape suspects
The authorities' reluctance to include appropriate provisions under the SC/ST (PoA) Act and abiding by provisions for providing police protection to fame worsens situation of Dalit women in India
14 months on, Kashmiri journalist, Fahad Shah’s detention under PSA quashed
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court held that the detention order against Peerzada Fahad Shah was liable to be quashed
Encounter Killings in UP raise doubts about complicity: PUCL
Representation Image The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has...
SC reprimands Mumbai Metro on its bid to fell additional trees in Aarey, imposes Rs 10 lakh fine
Despite the violation, an order authorising the cutting of 177 trees was issued
Extra-judicial killings in UP: A badge of honour or a matter of shame?
In March 2023, stark figures revealed by the state government proudly showcased that the police in Uttar Pradesh (UP) had carried out more than 10,000 encounters over the past 6 years, episodes in which 178 persons accused of crimes, were shot dead
250-year-old mosque in Delhi partially demolished in “anti encroachment drive”
Advocate Mehmood Pracha came to the demolition site and demanded a copy of any order that authorizes the demolition, however no such copy was provided
In false cow slaughter cases, four Hindu Mahasabha members held: UP Police
Now, the police are now looking for the remaining three accused, all Muslims, reports The Indian Express. According to the investigation, the five accused Muslim men had enmity with the four named in the false cow slaughter FIR.
Custodial torture victims are threatened, says People’s Watch: Tamil Nadu
In the latest conundrum over custodial torture in the...
Ujjain Horror: Muslim man allegedly burnt to death by five cops
No further details have been forthcoming and cops have claimed that the man set himself on fire. The victim was allegedly an accomplice in a bribery case where a cop was involved.
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Data is real, true wealth: SC issues notice in yet another plea challenging DPDP Act; highlights privacy concerns
This petition, filed by journalist Geeta Seshu, along with the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC) that also challenges the constitutional validity of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 will now be heard with other petitions filed in the matter by Reporter’s Collective, Nitin Sethi and Venkatesh Nayak, on March 23
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Religious Freedom: How the USCIRF continues to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC)
For another year running, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has in strong recommendations, urged the US government to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), “for engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations, as defined by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA)”
Communal Organisations
USCIRF’s Call for Sanctions on the RSS Is a Major Moral and Political Marker
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has apart from continuing to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), also recommended targeted sanctions against the RSS; this is a first.
Communalism
Evicted, Accused, and Deleted: The shrinking space for Muslim citizenship
From migrant workers and small vendors to university classrooms and electoral rolls, the architecture of suspicion –for the Indian Muslim--now stretches across everyday life
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Union government revokes Sonam Wangchuk’s detention under NSA after nearly six months!
Move comes days before Supreme Court hearing in habeas corpus petition filed by his wife; Ladakh activist had been detained following September 2025 protests over statehood and Sixth Schedule protections
Minorities
Allahabad High Court orders 24/7 armed protection for Bareilly Muslim man allegedly prevented from offering namaz at home
Summoning the district magistrate and SSP of Bareilly, the Allahabad High Court said any violence against the petitioner or his property would be presumed to have occurred at the instance of the State, as the case raises serious concerns over interference with religious prayers inside private property
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35 civil society groups oppose Maharashtra’s proposed anti-conversion law, warn of threat to women’s autonomy and constitutional freedoms
Coalition, which also included CJP who is the lead petitioner on challenge to anti-conversion laws in SC, demands draft bill be made public, calls for consultations and legislative scrutiny; says existing criminal law already addresses coercion