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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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Allegations of selective demolitions are false, Due process of law followed: UP gov’t to SC
State urges SC to hold the petitioners to terms for the false and baseless allegations
Gyanvapi case: Plea demanding FIR against mosque authorities to be heard on June 23
Varanasi Civil Judge Ravi Kumar Diwakar, who ordered video survey of mosque premises, among 619 judges transferred by Allahabad HC
Repair, compensate, prosecute: Parveen Fatima in petition before Allahabad HC
The petition demands restitution; prays for reconstruction of the bull-dozed residence, alternate government accommodation in in the interim and punishment of officials responsible for illegal act
Naini Central jail fails to notify kin on Javed Mohammad’s transfer
Wife Parveen Fatima writes an open letter about administration’s highhandedness
Hate Buster! Kolkata cop was not killed by mob protesting Nupur Sharma’s anti-Prophet comments
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Constable Choudup Lepcha died by suicide after opening fire on passersby and shooting dead a woman outside the Bangladesh High Commission in Park Circus
No innocent should ever be jailed, my life is dedicated to get other innocents released: Abdul Wahid Shaikh
Abdul Wahid Shaikh talks to Sabrang India’s Vallari Sanzgiri in an interview about his experience as an accused in the 2006 Mumbai train bomb blast case
Yati Narsinghanand under House Arrest after declaring intention to visit Delhi’s Jama Masjid
Serial Hate Offender Narsinghanand was supposed to visit Jama Masjid on Friday to show support for Nupur Sharma
Provable connection between police and people who planted false evidence against Bhima-Koregaon accused: SentinelOne
Wired reports that Sentinel One has unearthed a connection between cops who arrested the accused and Modified Elephant, a hacking campaign that allegedly planted evidence on the devices of activists
Demolitions by the playbook, unprecedented even in pre-independence India: Senior Counsel to SC in Bulldozer Injustice case
SC orders no ‘out of turn demolitions’ to take place until next hearing date i.e. June 21
Delhi HC dismisses Brinda Karat’s plea seeking FIR against BJP Leaders for alleged Hate Speech
Court rejected the plea filed against Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma for their 2020 hate speech
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