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Data is real, true wealth: SC issues notice in yet another plea challenging DPDP Act; highlights privacy concerns
This petition, filed by journalist Geeta Seshu, along with the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC) that also challenges the constitutional validity of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 will now be heard with other petitions filed in the matter by Reporter’s Collective, Nitin Sethi and Venkatesh Nayak, on March 23
UP: Lawyer shot dead inside court premises
The advocate, who has been identified as Bhupendra Singh was shot inside the district court complex in Shahjahanpur
Bombay court convicts man for sexual harassment in one of the shortest trials!
The case was registered on September 28 and the court delivered its verdict on October 5
Kundli murder accused remanded to week-long custody
Nihangs' justification of the murdering the man on account of religious sacrilege has angered many netizens and Dalit rights activists
UP: BJP workers threaten SHO, create ruckus in police station
The video of the incident was shot by other police personnel, where the BJP workers can be clearly seen misbehaving and shouting at the police officer
Tripura HC denies bail in mob-lynching death of 18-yr-old Muslim
The mob suspected that the boy was a cattle lifter, however no cattle was found in his possession
Bom HC to hear Dr. Varavara Rao’s bail extension plea on Oct 26
The court has extended his time to surrender to NIA until October 28 in the interim
UP court denies bail Ashish Mishra in Lakhimpur Kheri case
Son of MoS (MHA) Ajay Mishra Teni, Ashish is the main accused in connection with allegedly killing 8 people including 4 farmers and one journalist
Cordelia Cruise Drug Case: Mumbai lawyer files complaint with Police Commissioner
Complaint draws attention to suspicious behaviour of five people including a “private detective” and a BJP member who “took custody” of movie star Shahrukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan who is a key accused in the case despite no drugs being recovered from him
Delhi: Students and women demand ACP Pragya’s suspension!
Alleging that ACP Pragya Anand ordered for the brutal sexual assault and violence on AISA activists, various students and women activists demanded the suspension of the police official
Bikaner hostel rape case: Rajasthan court awards life sentence to main accused, convicts two others
A 17-year-old Dalit girl was found dead in a water tank at her hostel in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district in 2016
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Communal Organisations
UP’s syncretic warrior cults facing Hindutva challenge
Be it the attack on the Gogamedi shrine in the Hanumangarh district of northern Rajasthan or the Neja Mela in the Sambhal district of western Uttar Pradesh, Hindutva’s systemic attack on India’s syncretic traditions, past and present, reveals its rigid and Brahmanical ideological orientation: imposition of a strictly hierarchical, exclusionary and structured notion of faith and practice
Minorities
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An Adivasi woman once in bonded labour now serves her village as a Sarpanch
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Rights
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