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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.

UP cops electrocute Muslim youth, insert stick in his rectum, violate judicial precedents on torture

Victim who had been held on suspicion of cow slaughter has been hospitalized, suffering with repeated seizures, 5 policemen responsible

Kolkatta police arrest Vlogger from Goa for Criticising Mamata Banerjee, TMC Leaders in ‘Foul Language’

Roddur Roy had, in a Facebooklive concert, blamed the TMC administration for alleged mismanagement at singer KK's last concert.

HM Image mustnt be impaired, filmmaker Avinash Das refused bail

Gujarat Court rejects anticipatory bail to filmmaker Avinash Das 23 days after he was booked for sharing a picture of Union Home Minister Amit Shah with ex-IAS officer arrested in a money laundering case.

Assam Police register 16 cases against Popular Front of India (PFI)

Police allege PFI to be linked with Bangladesh based terror group

Spate of arrests in Orissa’s Dhinkia, protesting activists held

Supporters of the anti-Jindal protests condemned police attempts to keep local leaders from meeting families

Bail Condition: Serve at Gaushala says Allahabad HC

Apart from the deposit of Rs 1 lakh, the judge has asked the accused in a cow slaughter case, Saleem alias Kaliya to serve at a gaushala for a month.

False allegations of conversion in prayer center lead to police raid at Puttur

Photo credit: DaijiworldThe Uppinangady police raided the Moriya prayer...

Don’t make mentally disabled person travel for assessment test: Madras HC to TN gov’t

HC also suggest that the government consider exempting those suffering from other disabilities also from appearing in person to obtain disability certificates

Serve at Cow Shelter for a Month, Bail Condition to Slaughter Accused: Allahabad HC

The counsel for the applicant submitted that the applicant was innocent and was falsely implicated based on the confessional statement of the co-accused.

Unnatural in Indian culture that father-in-law would rape daughter-in-law: Allahabad HC

Court granted anticipatory bail to rape accused after making an observation based on the culture of the land, but not the allegations of the survivor

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