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Monitoring Torture: SC’s suo motu action on custodial deaths and CCTV camera non-compliance

The Court’s suo motu action highlights how weak compliance with its 2020 CCTV directions has left detainees vulnerable and accountability elusive.

Free Teesta Setalvad: CJP trustees express solidarity and support

Issue statement calling all allegations against her preposterous

Lucknow: Four men arrested for Lulu Mall namaz video

Police clarify that previous arrest of Hindu men was for disrupting public order while trying to enter mall to recite Hanuman Chalisa

Muslim group switches sect, Kerala HC upholds their rights to prayer and burial

Court held that a Jama-ath cannot prevent Muslims belonging to other sects from offering prayers in the mosque or burying their dead in public kabristan on their property

Gyanvapi case: SC admits petition seeking permission to worship “Shivling”

Case to b heard on July 21, the same day as mosque committee’s plea against a survey of the premises will be heard by another SC bench

Babri Masjid demolition case: Allahabad High Court to hear plea against acquittal of 32 people

Leaders such as LK Advani, Uma Bharati and Murli Manohar Joshi had been acquitted in the criminal case surrounding the demolition

SC grants interim relief to former BJP Spokesperson Nupur Sharma

Sharma had moved the Court seeking to revive the plea to club FIRs and stay arrest

‘Vicious cycle’ against Mohammed Zubair: SC

Court asks UP Police not to take ‘precipitative action’ against him until July 20

Arguments to continue in Teesta Setalvad’s bail application on July 20

Setalvad’s team has finished making their arguments, the State will now make their submissions

Freedom of Speech does not mean hurling abuses at the Prime Minister: Allahabad High Court

High Court refuses to quash FIR against man for derogatory remarks made on PM Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and other Union Ministers.

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Jagdeep Chhokar: A relentless pursuer of electoral and democratic reforms passes away

Since his retirement from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, he was co-founder of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR); besides, he had also been associated with ‘Aajeevika’ Bureau for over a decade, working on internal migration related issues

Akola 2023 targeted violence: Police officers must shed communal colours when they put on their uniforms says Supreme Court

The Hindu, New Indian Express and Indian Express all reported that the top court on Thursday, September 11, directed action against police who ignored a teenage Muslim assault victim and eyewitness to murder during the 2023 Akola communal riots; the SC ordered a probe by SIT comprising Muslim and Hindu officers

PUCL slams recently passed Rajasthan anti-conversion bill as “draconian and unconstitutional”

Civil liberties body says bill criminalises faith, dialogue, and choice; demands Governor/President intervention

From Tribunals to DCs, 10 Days to Prove Citizenship: Assam’s radical shift in “foreigner” expulsions

Cabinet move under the 1950 Act empowers District Commissioners to expel alleged foreigners in 10 days, raising constitutional concerns over due process and separation of powers

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