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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

Sedition cannot be invoked to quieten the disquiet under pretence of muzzling miscreants: Delhi Court

The court granted bail to two accused who were charged with sedition for forwarding a misinformed post on their Facebook accounts

Delhi riots: Delhi HC grants bail to cab driver as witnesses did not mention his name

The court observed that the accused was not in the vicinity of the area where the alleged incident took place

DCW questions why Disha Ravi was not provided with lawyer of her choice in court

The Commission has taken suo moto cognizance of the case and has sought copy of FIR and questioned the Delhi cyber crime cell in the way the case is being handled

SC registry: Suo moto contempt against Rajdeep Sardesai erroneously listed

The case was shown to be registered based on a petition filed in September 2020 by Haryana resident Aastha Khurana through Advocate Omprakash Parihar 

Bhima Koregaon case: Chorus demanding release of activists grows

Legal and tech experts shed light on future course of case in wake of Arsenal revelations of planted evidence

Nikita Jacob’s pre arrest bail order reserved, Shantanu Muluk gets transit bail

Both activists approached the Bombay High Court in the Great Thunberg Toolkit case created for the farmers’ protests

Nodeep Kaur gets bail in second case, but remains in jail for now

This is the second of three cases in which she has been granted bail

SC issues notice on plea against WhatsApp’s privacy policy

The CJI also remarked that it may be a 2 to 3 trillion-dollar company, but people’s privacy is paramount

JNU Sedition case: Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and others to face trial

The matter relates to alleged 'anti-national' slogans raised at the JNU campus in 2016 to mark the death anniversary of Afzal Guru

Rajasthan Govt amends Prison rules to prohibit religion & caste-based discrimination

The High Court had observed a research paper by CHRI to note the caste/religion-based allocation of labour in jails

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