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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
Stop coercing ‘confessional’ statements to manufacture evidence in Delhi Violence cases!
Eminent citizens raise objections to riots’ probe, ask Delhi Police to stop falsely implicating people, and wrongly invoking UAPA to fuel theories of anti-state ‘conspiracy’
Promoting fraternity: Courts to the rescue
Stay on transmission of hate programme of Sudarshan TV
Victim cannot appeal against inadequate sentence: SC
The victim’s right to appeal was enhanced by a 2009 amendment to CrPC, yet it comes with some restrictions
Justice for Namma Gauri
After the Karnataka SIT's stellar investigation in the Gauri Lankesh assassination conspiracy, 17 people were arrested and one is absconding
SC directs 48,000 shanties to be razed along railways track in Delhi
The order was in connection with a petition filed by MC Mehta in 1985 in which the court has been intermittently passing orders in the interest of control of pollution on Delhi
SC: Punjab SHO denied pre-arrest bail in custodial torture case
The petitioner had approached the apex court challenging the Punjab and Haryana HC order denying him anticipatory bail as the SIT found some truth in allegations
Northeast Delhi riots: Crime Branch questions activist Umar Khalid again
The former JNU scholar was last questioned in August under the same investigation, and his phone was seized
Bhushan’s conviction for contempt has chilling effect on freedom of expression: ICJ
The International Commission of Jurists has called for a review of the contempt law in India while juxtaposing it with international standards on freedom of expression of lawyers
Dr Kafeel Khan released at midnight from Mathura Jail
Mother happy to be able to "see, touch and feel" her son, even as Khan remains apprehensive that the Yogi government might frame him in some other case
Prashant Bhushan contempt case: The judgment behind the Re. 1 penalty
A closer look at the rationale behind the now famous judgment and the possibility of placing greater onus for lawyers' conduct on the Bar Council
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