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Supreme Court: UP Gangsters Act ‘stillborn’ for prescribing punishment without creating an offence
In a strongly worded judgment, the Court holds that the 1986 law prescribes punishment without creating a distinct offence and criticises the gang-chart mechanism, but stops short of deciding whether the legislation itself passes constitutional muster
Students cut hair in protest against moral policing in Kerala
Students stated that the protest was held to express solidarity with the students who suffered the moral policing attack
Bulldozer injustice: this will only stop when a police officer is sent to jail, says Patna HC
The court said that it will make sure that the petitioner gets compensation from the perpetrators
Does paying salaries to Imams amount to ‘betraying’ the Hindu community’?
Remarks of Central Information Commissioner (CIC), Mahurkar followed the Delhi Waqf Board submitted data that revealed that the wages of imams and mosque helpers increased four-fold since 2014 after the Kejriwal-lef AAP government came to power in the national capital.
Bilkis Bano approaches Supreme Court to contest premature release of rape convicts
Survivor of Gujarat Riots Gang Rape Demands Justice, files petition against remission granted on August 15
CAA discriminatory against Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka: DMK
The party, which is one of the 200 petitioners before the apex court challenging CAA, has now filed an additional affidavit
Why Judiciary and Executive must heed President Murmu’s serious concerns on prisoners’ rights
Appalled at the government’s talk of building more jails, President Murmu made a strong appeal that the governments and judiciary should work together to tackle problems like poor legal aid, pre-trial detentions and the over-representation of marginalised communities inside jails.
SC, once again, seeks DLSA intervention to ensure that under trials unable to provide surety are released from prison
A failure to provide bail bonds or surety is a common occurrence leading to many under trials languishing in jails, despite securing bail
Is the Centre overreaching itself in returning Collegium recommendations, again?
The Centre has, in the recent past, cherry picked recommendations and has defied the norm of approving reiterated names
Centre returns Saurabh Kirpal’s file to Collegium for the 5th time
If elevated as judge, he will become India’s first openly gay judge
“Every Indian citizen has the duty to prevent abuse of the Constitution”: Justice KM Joseph On Constitution Day
Defending the core values enshrined in our Constitution is the duty of every Indian citizen, said the fourth in seniority judge of the Supreme Court
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Supreme Court: UP Gangsters Act ‘stillborn’ for prescribing punishment without creating an offence
In a strongly worded judgment, the Court holds that the 1986 law prescribes punishment without creating a distinct offence and criticises the gang-chart mechanism, but stops short of deciding whether the legislation itself passes constitutional muster
India
“SIR is a Nazi-Fascist Project:” M.G. Devasahayam
Alleging that a staggering one crore persons will be finally excluded from the Karnataka state electoral rolls, MG Devasahayam, a former IAS officer, who was recently interviewed by the Kannada daily Vartabharati stated that opposition political parties had failed the voter while citizens groups had posed a robust challenge to the SIR process
Gender and Sexuality
When Suspicion Becomes Deportation: The case of Sahida Fakir and the dangerous criminalisation of Bengali identity
A woman who left home to buy dinner was detained, taken across state lines and allegedly pushed into Bangladesh despite her family producing a birth certificate, voter ID, school records and land documents
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
The women India continues to ignore
It is 76 years into the adoption of the Indian Constitution. However, the fundamental promises of equality and dignity remain elusive for many communities - none more so than Dalit women. What is even starker is the sheer indifference of institutions towards their plight. This piece aims to highlight how the understanding of “women” does not mechanically encompass Dalit women and accentuate the underlying forces that precludes the empowerment of women from the most downtrodden sections of Indian society.
Politics
The State Wants the Delete Button: India’s new architecture of digital censorship
Nearly 1.95 lakh blocking directions in five months raise urgent questions about transparency, due process and the constitutional limits of government control over online speech
India
Punjab SIR draft roll published; 20 lakh electors marked ASDD, claims open till September 12
Nearly 1.94 crore (19.4 million) enumeration forms digitised during SIR; over 20 lakh electors categorised as absent, shifted, dead or duplicate (ASDD), Voters whose names are missing from the draft can file claims for inclusion till September 12, even as complaints on social media during the enumeration phase highlighted difficulties faced by electors
Communalism
When Faith Becomes a Licence for Control: The 2026 Kanwar yatra, violence, vigilantism and the politics of meat
From attacks on vehicles and commuters to the targeting of Muslim-owned businesses and meat shops, the 2026 pilgrimage raises urgent questions about vigilantism, selective policing and the State's accommodation of majoritarian demands
India
Maharashtra SIR: 2.08 crore (20.8 million) voter forms “uncollected” hence may not be listed in August 24 draft electoral roll
More than 1 in 5 voter enumeration forms have remained “uncollected” on the final day of Maharashtra’s SIR exercise, with urban districts accounting for a large share of those bureaucratically “excluded”-- nearly 95 lakh forms were uncollected in Thane, Mumbai and Pune, though voters left out of the draft will get a month to seek inclusion or correction