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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

Karnataka CM invokes UAPA against Bengaluru rioters

State Govt may ban PFI, SDPI; Cabinet meeting on August 20, around 52 FIRs filed, 264 arrested, prohibitory orders extended till Aug 18

INVESTIGATION: The Missing Cows of Gujarat

How Cow Protection Laws have failed to protect the animal in the state

Kidnapping, rape, torture, murder; just another long weekend in Uttar Pradesh

Lawlessness engulfs UP as child raped, tortured, killed; Dalit teen raped, tortured; and Dalit pradhan shot dead, all since Friday!

Parliament has remained a ghost town since March 2020: Justice AP Shah

The former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court addressed the inaugural session of an online Janta Parliament

Delhi Police complicit in February 2020 violence: Polis Project

Report slams police for manufacturing evidence and abusing power to selectively target and frame human rights defenders  

SC: Prashant Bhushan held guilty for contempt of court [full judgement]

The Court will hear Bhushan on his sentence at the next hearing on August 20

SC holds Prashant Bhushan guilty of contempt; next hearing to decide sentence

This judgment came in the suo moto case against the senior advocate for posting tweets about the court and the Chief Justice of India

SC petition challenging criminal contempt withdrawn

Petitioners denied liberty to approach the apex court again, but are at liberty to file petition before HC

J&K: 4G will be restored on trial basis in two districts for limited period

This submission was made in SC after the court pushed the Centre to make a decision on restoration of 4G

Officers investigating Bhima Koregaon, NE Delhi riots get Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence

Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation, 2020, winners include Dy Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Rajesh Deo,Vikram Khalate, SP, NIA, 

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