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After Five Years in Jail, Bail Still Barred for Two: Supreme Court denies bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in Delhi riots case
Holding that the UAPA’s elevated statutory threshold continues to apply, the Court says Khalid and Imam stand on a “qualitatively different footing”, while granting conditional bail to five co-accused after more than five years of incarceration
From Suspected Foreigner to Recognised Citizen: Aklima’s fight for dignity and Indian citizenship
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Widowed, landless, and displaced, Aklima Sarkar fought three years to reclaim her citizenship in Assam
Punjab & Haryana High Court refuses anticipatory bail to journalist accused of provocative, communal statements against Purvanchal community
Justice Sumeet Goel cites prima facie digital evidence, seriousness of hate-motivated speech, and the need for custodial interrogation
Six Days Behind Bars After Bail: Patna High Court orders ₹2 lakh relief, flags state-wide pattern of illegal detention
Court rejects “festival holiday” defence, directs IG Prisons to fix systemic lapses and ensure jail superintendents comply with court orders
Washed Away by Floods, Targeted by the State: Hamela Khatun’s fight for citizenship
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CJP’s team helped Hamela piece together a lifetime of evidence — from 1950s land documents to contemporary electoral rolls — to establish beyond doubt that she is, and always has been, an Indian citizen
‘They Have a Right to Be Heard’: Supreme Court suggests Union brings back alleged deportees from Bangladesh “at least as a temporary measure”
Top Court questions the Union’s resistance to repatriation, stressing that individuals asserting Indian citizenship cannot be expelled without enquiry, hearing, or due process — as both Indian and Bangladeshi courts find the June 2025 deportations unconstitutional and improperly executed
A New Silence: The Supreme Court’s turn toward non-interference in hate-speech cases
The Court’s refusal to monitor rising hate-speech incidents marks a decisive shift from its earlier activist stance, exposing contradictions between judicial pronouncements, institutional capacity, and the lived realities of targeted communities
A Terror Case Without Evidence: Allahabad High Court’s ‘heavy heart’ acquittal After 28 Years
A devastating judicial analysis reveals how a mass-casualty blast, a collapsed investigation, and an inadmissible police confession led to the undoing of a decades-old conviction
Clarity Without Cure: The Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of Articles 200 and 201 and the future of federal governance
The opinion restores textual fidelity to Article 200, but its institutional hesitations risk enabling executive obstruction of democratically enacted State legislation
Beyond mere Recognition: The Jane Kaushik judgment and the next frontier of transgender equality
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In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court acknowledged the dignity and rights of employment of transgender individuals, ordered monetary compensation for a transwoman teacher who had been terminated from her position, and ordered that a model Equal Opportunity Policy be made mandatory in all institutions, going further than the Constitution's promise of equality in private employment
Judicial Pushback against Cow Vigilantism: Allahabad HC flags arbitrary FIRs, demands accountability from top officials
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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
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After Five Years in Jail, Bail Still Barred for Two: Supreme Court denies bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in Delhi riots case
Holding that the UAPA’s elevated statutory threshold continues to apply, the Court says Khalid and Imam stand on a “qualitatively different footing”, while granting conditional bail to five co-accused after more than five years of incarceration
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