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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.
89 Members of Assam Foreigners Tribunals move Supreme Court against dismissal from service
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Madhya Pradesh High Court bars state government to mandate inter-faith couples to declare conversion before district administration
SC directs NIA to execute Gautam Navlakha’s house arrest within 24 hours
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