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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.
Pawan Khera granted interim bail after being arrested by Assam police over Modi jibe
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“...it is only with a view to maintain peace and harmony that the suspects were cornered,” the SP's affidavit says.
Who are UP police officials who detained a young couple at midnight without informing Delhi Police, asks Delhi High Court
The Delhi HC has sought copies of the CCTV footage of the ‘operation’ to identify officials, LiveLaw reports
JJ Law makes no distinction between orphan & abandoned child: Bombay HC
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Anti-CAA stir, Assam: SC protects independent Assam MLA Akhil Gogoi from arrest
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UP seer calls for genocide prompts letter petition to Allahabad HC
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Gauhati HC imposes cost for suspecting citizenship of ex serviceman ‘without application of mind’
The court imposed cost on the Election Commission official for causing undue inconvenience to the retired Army
SC favours conciliation in case of caste based discrimination against Dalit faculty: IIT-Kanpur
The apex court has given directions for “talks” between the Dalit faculty member and his colleagues; the aggrieved complainant Subrahmanyam Saderla had challenged the Allahabad HC’s decision to quash the FIR against his colleagues
No Trial 8 Years After Govind Pansare’s Murder
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Hyderabad: Muslim man allegedly subjected to custodial torture on “suspicion of theft” for 5 days, dies in hospital
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