Rule of Law

From Outrage to Acquittal: The Raja Singh hate speech case comes to a close

Mass protests, preventive detention, political fallout and four years of criminal proceedings culminated in the acquittal of Telangana MLA T. Raja Singh

Hathras victim knew rape accused: UP Police start blaming the victim!

Uttar Pradesh police ‘investigation’, finds Dalit teen raped and killed was in ‘constant touch’ with the main accused. Will that impact the investigation?

Rajasthan court convicts 5 in Thanagazi gang rape case

Four out of the five convicted awarded life sentence for raping a Dalit woman

Delhi Court grants Noor Mohammed bail in riots case

Court cited lack of evidence, and that an accused cannot be jailed indefinitely on grounds of an ongoing investigation, as reasons

Hathras Horror: UP Police in damage control mode with multiple FIRs, arrests

Uttar Pradesh police, under BJP-led state gov't, borrowing a leaf from Delhi Police playbook?

Delhi pogrom 2020 reminded me of Mumbai riots 1992: Justice (retd) B N Srikrishna

The  report by The Lawyers Initiative, titled Delhi Riots of 2020: Causes, Fallout and Aftermath, records events from months before the first stone was hurled in North East Delhi. 

Intercepted, questioned, harassed: A typical day for Kashmiri journalists

Fahad Shah, editor-in-chief, of the news portal The Kashmir Walla, recalls his experience of being intercepted, and interrogated as he was returning home after covering farmer protests in Punjab. He shared the following statement on social media. 

UP Police deliberately obstructing justice in rape cases?

Report by CHRI and AALI lays bare a strategy of delayed FIRs, intimidation tactics and pressure to ‘compromise’

Over 10,000 citizens demand immediate action against accused: Hathras

'Crimes against women and Dalits have increased, and police have been given unlimited powers without any accountability.'

The judiciary is abandoning its duties: NAPM on the Babri Masjid judgment

The People’s Alliance rejects the judgment by the Special CBI Court, demands it be challenged in the High Court.

Delhi Police register case against peaceful protesters demanding justice for Hathras Dalit victim

Police say protesters gathered at Jantar Mantar, violated Section 144 CrPC, charged them under section 188 of IPC, 3 Epidemic Act and 51(b) Disaster Management Act

Trending

Related VIDEOS

ALL STORIES

ALL STORIES

Somnath to Ayodhya: Plunder to ‘Chanda Chori’

How do we contrast temple destructions during kingdoms and now under a semi-democratising society turning into elected autocracy?

Politics of Humiliation: Mahua Moitra, mob intimidation and the Calcutta High Court’s warning

The alleged attack on Mahua Moitra came just a day after the Calcutta High Court warned against the growing culture of mob justice, public humiliation and egg pelting in West Bengal

From Outrage to Acquittal: The Raja Singh hate speech case comes to a close

Mass protests, preventive detention, political fallout and four years of criminal proceedings culminated in the acquittal of Telangana MLA T. Raja Singh

Karnataka HC allows Hindu convention but bars invitee seer from speaking to prevent law-and-order concerns

HC permits the Basavadi Shiva Sharana Bruhat Hindu Samavesha to proceed while imposing stringent conditions, including an unprecedented cap on attendance and an absolute ban on hate speech

How FIFA Colludes in the Genocide of Palestinians

FIFA claiming that ‘Football Unites the World’ is ironic, cruel and twisted. Ask Palestine.

Judging the Judge: The communal backlash against a lynching verdict

A reasoned criminal judgment gave way to an organised campaign of communal abuse, threats and intimidation targeting the judge who delivered it

Karnataka’s new PRC rules are people-friendly, but will the ECI accept them?

While a sustained and rigorous campaign by anti-SIR activists across Karnataka has pushed the opposition Congress government to issue a fresh set of simplified guidelines for the issuance of Permanent Residency Certificates; the experience of West Bengal however shows that no amount of pro-activeness by any state government influences an ECI functioning under a non-transparent and non-accountable diktat