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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
Hathras victim’s family move Allahabad HC, demand release from illegal detention
Detained in their own home, the Hathras victim’s family moved court asserting their freedom to speech, expression and movement.
Brinda Karat moves Delhi HC, challenges order refusing hate speech FIR against Anurag Thakur, Pravesh Verma
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vishal Pahuja had dismissed Karat’s application stating respondents are Members of Parliament, and prior gov't sanction was required under Section 196 CrPC
Right to protest, not an absolute law: SC
The apex court ruling in the Shaheen Bagh case states that public areas cannot be occupied indefinitely
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
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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?
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Report by CHRI and AALI lays bare a strategy of delayed FIRs, intimidation tactics and pressure to ‘compromise’
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