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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.
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Chorus demanding justice for Teesta Setalvad grows louder!
More activists, journalists and civil society members are stepping out to express solidarity with the human rights defender
Ahmedabad court remands Teesta Setalvad to police custody till July 1
The human rights defender will be next produced in court on July 2
Support pours in for Teesta Setalvad
Civil society, socio-political activists and journalists demand justice for the human rights defender
PRESS RELEASE: Teesta Setalvad roughed up as Gujarat ATS personnel barge into her home
The human rights defender fears for her life as she is taken to Ahmedabad, ostensibly to the Crime Branch where a complaint of forgery is lodged against her
I fear for my life: Teesta Setalvad allegedly roughed up by Gujarat ATS personnel
Police barged into her home and allegedly assaulted her; Setalvad arrested from Mumbai and taken to Ahmedabad Crime branch
Gyanvapi case: Varanasi court reserves order on admitting petition pertaining to FIR against mosque committee
VVSS, a Hindutva group had moved court demanding FIR against mosque authorities for allegedly damaging parts of temple located on mosque premises
Jharkand HC to hear PIL demanding NIA probe into Ranchi violence on June 24
The PIL filed by one Pankaj Yadav has has demanded NIA investigation into the entire incident. A division bench comprising chief justice Dr Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad first heard the PIL on June 17
Custodial Torture Case: Gujarat HC orders a probe into allegations
Pulling up the police for “misleading the court,”, HC orders state to file a fresh affidavit with “some concrete action and promptness”, grants time till July 4
India in the age of State-sponsored Doxing
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Mumbai Court grants bail to three students in the Bulli Bai app case
A Mumbai court while granting bail to three students in the Bulli Bai app case, which targeted Muslim women by arranging for their "auction", held that their "immature age and understanding" was misused by other accused with "deeper understanding".
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