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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

Kashmiri Pandit organisation files curative petition in SC

Roots in Kashmir seeks probe into the killings of Kashmiri Pandits in 1989-90

UP: Jaunpur police allegedly flog Dalit women

Visual show women bearing reddened welts on their bodies but police say medical reports does not show any trauma

Karnataka HC refuses to drop rape charges against husband

“If it is punishable to a man, it should be punishable to a man albeit, the man being a husband,” observed the court

Delhi Violence case: Dr. Umar Khalid denied bail in UAPA case surrounding larger conspiracy

After deferring the bail order thrice, Delhi court denies bail to the scholar and socio-political activist

12 people died in police custody in 2021: Assam CM

Over a span of seven months, more than 60 incidents of custodial violence were reported last year

Delhi HC asks for Centre’s opinion on declaring the Child Marriage ‘void ab initio’

Court issues notice to Ministry of Law and Justice and National Commission for Women

UP Police harassing journalist Ashish Dixit?

The local journalist alleged that the police have filed fake FIRs against him due to his work as a journalist in the area

Gujarat HC rules on PASA Act, claims Preventive Detention untenable

In a landmark judgement, the court quashed the order of detention

SC questions Centre about man held in a Detention Centre for 7 years!

The 62-year-old man’s life was left in limbo after Pakistan refused to acknowledge him as its citizen

Gauhati HC stays order to register FIR against Assam CM for inflammatory remarks about eviction drive

Himanta Biswa Sarma had said that the Darrang eviction drive was revenge for the 1983 Assam agitation

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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