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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
Election Commissioner to be appointed on advise of PM, leader of opposition and CJI: SC
The apex court was hearing a batch of petitions demanding a transparent procedure for appointing members of ECI, as no law has been made in this regard despite the Constitution providing for it.
How the 9-year-old custody of a girl child is unsettled after a bitter legal battle
The doctrine of parens patraie is invoked by the Allahabad HC without an interview with the girl child
Appointment of Election Commissioner under SC scrutiny: The story so far
The constitution bench reserved its judgement in the petitions that have sought a non-arbitrary and transparent process for appointing members of the Election Commission, to safeguard its independence
SC calls out Ashwini Upadhyay on his repeated attempts to target Muslim Community
Reminding the PIL serial litigator of the secular nature of Hinduism, the SC further said that his plea had a potentially divisive agenda calling for as it did, for renaming historical cities and places
Brinda Karat on the Third Anniversary of Delhi Riots- “Cannot Abandon Struggle for Justice”
There has been a slew of challenges ranging from rehabilitation and compensation to the perusal of justice.
Comments can be distasteful but does not warrant FIR, police officer fined Rs 25,000: Bom HC
The high court reiterated the fundamental right guaranteeing freedom of speech and asked the police to be mindful when registering FIRs
Domestic Violence Act, 2005: SC directs union to hold meetings with various ministries, states/UTs, address hopeless inadequacy of protection officers
In a significant order passed last week, Friday, Justice S Ravindra Bhat and Dipankar Datta of the Supreme Court directed the Secretary of the union ministry of Women and Child Development to convene a meeting with the various ministries including the ministry of finance, social justice and home affairs, Principal Secretaries of all states and Union Territories to, inter alia, look into the issue of inadequacy of Protection Officers under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005.
Noida cops suspended for inaction in 2 yr-old hate crime against elderly Muslim man
The man was attacked in July 2021 for his religious identity; he was reportedly stripped while derogatory anti-Muslim slurs were hurled at him by some goons in a car
Urging preventive action against hate offenders, Gandhiji’s grandson, Tushar urges Navi Mumbai police to act
The Mahatma Gandhi Foundation has urged preventive action from the Navi Mumbai Police that has now stated it will vido-graph the event
Citing that ‘research on Caste, Religion is sensitive’, the union govt defends academic Filippo Osella’s 2022 deportation: Delhi HC
Last year, in March 2022 the government had deported the anthropologist as he arrived to participate in a conference in Thiruvananthapuram. The academic challenged the government order in the Delhi high court.
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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)”
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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.
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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