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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

Why has India still not ratified UN Convention against torture?

India still does not have a law condemning torture

No data on witnesses killed, turned hostile: Centre in Lok Sabha

The MoS Home Affairs, has answered in the Lok Sabha that data on witnesses killed is not centrally maintained

Guj gov’t faces heat for submitting report on fire safety in hospitals to SC in sealed cover

Pressure has been mounting to ensure higher safety standards since the tragic Shrey Hospital fire of August 2020

Why was Dr. Anand Teltumbde denied bail by the NIA court?

The Special NIA court held that there was prima facie evidence against the Bhima Koregaon accused

MP Adivasis piece their lives together following forced eviction

After destruction of settlement by a mob, that allegedly enjoyed the backing of police personnel present on the spot, Adivasis of this hamlet in Khandwa are demanding justice

Gurugram Court denies bail to ‘Jamia Shooter’ in a Hate Speech case

The man identified as Rambhagat Gopal reportedly told a crowd at a Mahapanchayat in Haryana, to abduct Muslim women and to also kill other Muslims

MP: 40 Adivasi families illegally evicted amidst a pandemic!

Life upended during the monsoon season, Adivasi families protest the destruction of their small hamlet in Khandwa

Why are Indians denied ex gratia compensation for Covid-19?

The Supreme Court considered this issue while dealing with two petitions seeking ex gratia compensation for families of those who succumbed to Covid-19 and other related relief

Varanasi demands justice for Fr Stan Swamy

In memory of Fr Stan, Varanasi demands release of Bhima-Koregaon accused and other political prisoners

Maharashtra: 580 sanitation workers made permanent on industrial court orders!

A decades-long struggle for basic human rights finally concludes, as over 500 people in Mumbai receive the title of permanent MCGM sanitation workers

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Hate Has No Place in Elections: CJP moves State EC against BJP MP Ashwini Choubey’s communal speech

In Bhagalpur’s Pirpainti, the senior BJP leader urged “Muslim brothers” to reduce their population and referred to “infiltrators,” breaching the Model Code of Conduct and constitutional values

Hindutva’s Rajasthan Project: Brahmin-Bania Power, not just Muslim baiting

The RSS’ and Hindutva’s strategy in Rajasthan has systematically pushed the dominance of a Brahmin–Bania synergy that shrewdly ensures that while Muslims are scapegoated, Rajputs are historically and politically side-lined and the real beneficiaries are the Brahmin-Bania elites who monopolise both state power and wealth.

When Conservation Becomes Coercion: The silent violence faced by the Tharus of Kheri

Over 4,000 Tharu Adivasis in Lakhimpur Kheri — including a blind man, a chronically ill man, and several elders — have been wrongfully booked. This analysis shows how administrative discretion and recent forest-law amendments are further undermining the protections guaranteed to forest-dwelling communities under the Forest Rights Act, 2006

Lives in the Margins: Reading India’s suicide data beyond the numbers

India’s rising suicides tell a national story the state refuses to hear: of farmers abandoned, students crushed, and women erased from data

CJP seeks action against Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and AIMIM’s Tausif Alam for election code violations in Bihar

In twin complaints to the Election Commission, Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) alleges Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and AIMIM candidate Tausif Alam of crossing constitutional red lines — one by communalising the campaign with hate-laden rhetoric, the other by threatening brutal violence against a rival, exposing the deep decay of democratic discourse in the Bihar elections

PIL filed in the Patna High Court, claims the MMR Yojana was used to influence voters by making payments after the MCC was in effect

‘Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana’: A Public Interest Litigation [PIL] filed in the Patna High Court accuses the Bihar government of ‘political bribery,’ it alleges the state brazenly disbursed 2,500 crores in cash grants to 25 lakh women after the Model Code of Conduct for the 2025 Assembly Elections was already in effect