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“Obnoxious and Caste-Coloured”: Supreme Court strikes down Odisha bail orders mandating cleaning work, declares them void

Acting on suo-moto proceedings triggered by media reports, the Court condemns “degrading” bail conditions imposed on Dalit and Adivasi accused, warns against judicial overreach, and reinforces that liberty cannot be conditioned on humiliation or caste-based labour

Resist before Delhi Police makes sexual assault their SoP for protesters: AISA

Students' group condemns Delhi police for allegedly sexually assaulting women who had gathered outside Home Minister Amit Shah’s house to protest the killing of farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri

Chargesheet against me looks like a film script: Umar Khalid to court

UAPA accused Khalid has alleged that the chargesheet against him is not consistent, and that planning a chakka jam is not an offence

After farmers, now protesting students face police brutality

Students in Delhi, especially women protesters demanding justice for Lakhimpur Kheri victims, reported severe physical abuse at the hands of city police

Gauhati HC grants bail to UAPA accused who said “Taliban are not terrorists”

Maulana Fazlul Karim was arrested after allegedly posting on Facebook that the Taliban in Afghanistan are not terrorists

Kerala HC upholds conviction of 4 policemen in custodial torture case

The court held that sanction u/s 197 CrPC is a protection reserved only for bonafide acts of public servant

Lakhimpur Kheri: Accused Ashish Mishra arrested on Saturday

After nearly 12 hours of interrogation, Mishra was arrested by the UP police

Delhi violence: Accused not visible in the videography conducted by Police, HC grants bail

The court ruled that the video footage relied on by the Police in the murder of one Musassir, does not show the accused, Mohd. Bilal

Delhi Violence case: Gulfisha Fatima completes 18 months of incarceration

The Delhi police have booked her under the stringent UAPA, and accused her of instigating people to be violent

Ashish Mishra arrives at Kheri for police questioning

While the Minister's son arrived on time for his second appointment, farmers remain unsure of an impartial investigation

Finally, FIRs filed in Dhalpur firing death cases

Gauhati HC directs Assam government to file affidavit pertaining to evictions

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“Obnoxious and Caste-Coloured”: Supreme Court strikes down Odisha bail orders mandating cleaning work, declares them void

Acting on suo-moto proceedings triggered by media reports, the Court condemns “degrading” bail conditions imposed on Dalit and Adivasi accused, warns against judicial overreach, and reinforces that liberty cannot be conditioned on humiliation or caste-based labour

Caged Voices, Silenced Truths: FSC’s expansive indictment of India’s press freedom crisis

On World Press Freedom Day 2026, the Free Speech Collective (FSC) assembles a powerful, deeply layered account of repression, incarceration, and systemic silencing—centring the stories of jailed journalists Rupesh Kumar Singh and Irfan Mehraj to expose the widening fault lines in India’s democratic promise

Systematic Exclusion: Caste-based atrocities across Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, MP, and UP

A spate of anti-Dalit incidents—from a youth killed over leftover food in Amreli to a suspicious death after an inter-caste relationship in Tamil Nadu, and social boycotts in Khargone—also includes temple bans and clashes over Dalit wedding processions

May Day Dramatised

When Safdar Hashmi wrote a play on the centenary of May Day, 1986.

Delhi: Ayaan Saifi, a 16-year old, stabbed to death in nation’s capital on April 30

Man stabbed in Trilokpuri: While media focusses on the just concluded state polls, and television channels turn the other way, two media outlets, The Tribune and Observer Post report the stabbing of 19 year old Ayaan Saifi on April 30

UP: Women protest installation of prepaid smart electricity metres in several districts

At least ten districts of Uttar Pradesh have witnessed widespread women led protests against the hasty, untested installation of pre-paid smart metres that women claim have been programmed to run fast to “inflate” electricity bills

As lynchings “normalise” in ‘New India, a Bihar imam is ‘thrashed, pushed’ from train to die in Bareilly

While the incident reportedly took place on April 26, it took sectional media and social media coverage for the Bareilly police to finally admit that the beating to death of Maulana Tausif Raza Manzari was a targeted attack, not an accident on May 1; his wife provided details of a call to her from the dead cleric where he narrated he was under attack