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Judicial Pushback against Cow Vigilantism: Allahabad HC flags arbitrary FIRs, demands accountability from top officials

The Court exposes the way a regulatory law has become a system of targeted persecution of minorities through arbitrary FIRs under the 1955 law while ignoring the Supreme Court’s binding directives to prohibit group violence

SC asks Centre to collect information from State on preventive, corrective and remedial measures on Hate Speech

Centre to submit a compilation of a booklet within a period of six weeks

Gyanvapi case: SC to wait for Varanasi district court’s decision on suit maintainability

AIM’s case challenging survey adjourned till October; SC refused to entertain suits pertaining to “Shivling”

Gauri Lankesh case: CCTV footage shared with counsel for the accused

Footage reportedly shows two men shooting at her; next date of hearing is August 8

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

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Judicial Pushback against Cow Vigilantism: Allahabad HC flags arbitrary FIRs, demands accountability from top officials

The Court exposes the way a regulatory law has become a system of targeted persecution of minorities through arbitrary FIRs under the 1955 law while ignoring the Supreme Court’s binding directives to prohibit group violence

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