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Inside the SSP’s Office: Allegations of beatings, torture & police impunity against farmer leaders in Meerut, UP

Digvijay Bhati and Mohit Jatav allege they were beaten, tied up and humiliated inside police premises; the allegations come weeks after the Meerut police faced scrutiny over its crackdown on protests demanding justice for a Dalit woman

TN: Special DGP accused of sexual harassment, suspended

The Madras High Court, monitoring the investigation, had urged the government to take action against the accused

Bombay HC refuses to accept compromise affidavit in a sexual assault case

The Bench noted that the aim and objective of Vishakha guidelines will remain defeated if the complainant is coerced to withdraw her complaint

Plea in SC to allow consensual teenage relationships under POCSO Act

The Act is silent on the aspect where two minor individuals enter into a consensual relationship

SC adjourns plea filed in 2019 seeking criminal action for employing manual scavengers

The plea seeks invoking of charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against employers of manual scavengers, who end up dying on the job

Cutting cake with National Flag icing, not unpatriotic: Madras HC

The court was hearing a plea over a complaint filed for cutting a cake with the representation of the Indian National Flag on it

Chhattisgarh HC seeks State’s reply over woman’s custodial death

The court has also directed the police to provide the post mortem report to her family

NIA court denies bail to Father Stan Swamy

The tribal rights activist was arrested from his house in Ranchi on October 8 for his alleged role in inciting the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence

SC defers plea against State Assemblies anti-CAA resolutions

The top court asked the petitioner NGO to do more research as it did not want to ‘create more problems than solving’

Kerala Police file FIR against Enforcement Directorate team probing gold smuggling case

Team is accused of pressuring key accused Swapna Suresh to falsely implicate CM Pinarayi Vijayan

25 arrests in three months under Madhya Pradesh’s ‘Love Jihad’ law

In all cases, the accused persons are from minority communities, including 15 cases against Muslims and six cases against Christians

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