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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

Visva Bharti college row: Calcutta HC orders no protests within 50 metres of campus

University students have been protesting the decision to expel three students on disciplinary grounds

Chargesheet calls me ‘veteran of sedition’, gives it a communal colour: Umar Khalid to court

Booked under UAPA in the Delhi Violence case, Khalid argued that the Police have no evidence against him

Indore: Muslim bangle seller beaten by mob, denied bail in molestation case

The Sessions Court denied him bail on the ground that he resides outside Indore and investigation is still going on

Delhi Violence case: Court discharges 3 accused citing shoddy investigation

The court also said that the case was a waste of tax payers' money and of the court’s time, as the police had no real intention to investigate the matter

Bhima Koregaon: Gautam Navlakha moves Bombay HC for house arrest citing lump in chest

The court was informed by the government that Navlakha will be taken to Tata Memorial Hospital for a medical check up tomorrow

Allahabad HC questions if state funds to madrasas is consistent with India’s secular scheme

With a particular focus on madrasas, the Allahabad High Court has asked whether state funding to religious education institutions is in tandem with the Constitution's secular spirit

Tablighi Jamaat case: CJI says there is an attempt to give communal colour to news, it’s a problem

The SC heard a batch of petitions against certain news channels for spreading fake news, linking the spread of Covid-19 with the Nizamuddin Markaz event in 2020

Gyan Vapi case: Allahabad HC reserves judgment on appeal against ASI survey

A Varanasi court had ordered a survey of the Gyan Vapi mosque-Kashi Vishwanath temple complex, leading the Sunni Board and mosque authorities to move HC against the order

SHOCKING! Allahabad HC asks that Cow Protection be declared a Fundamental Right for Hindus!

The court's order denying bail to a man accused of cow slaughter, highlighted the importance of cows in Indian culture and contained several passages containing historical and mythological references

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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