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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

The State has no religion

Ayodhya Bhumi Pujan provided retrospective legitimisation for Babri Masjid destruction said Sitaram Yechury, Gen Secy, CPI(M)

Fundamental right of reporter to publish news even if not palatable to administration: Calcutta HC

The Court granted anticipatory bail to the journalist who reported on policemen taking bribe and causing accident due to rash driving

Police fuelling Systemic Communalism in Kerala?

Allegations of communal bias in response to and treatment of cases involving Muslims

Draft EIA: K’taka HC extends date for filing objections, restrains Centre from releasing final notification

The court questioned the Centre on why the notification was not published in regional languages

SC grants bail to support persons of Araria rape survivor; calls their arrest totally impermissible

The support persons and the rape survivor were arrested after being found in contempt of court by a lower court and the survivor was granted bail on humanitarian grounds a few days later

GN Saibaba denied permission to attend post funeral ceremonies of dead mother

Jail Superintendent Anup Kumar Kumre tells the media, permission was refused because the former DU Professor is a “different kind of inmate” 

Prashant Bhushan contempt case: Activists file intervention application 

16 prominent social activists say case will have adverse impact on citizens' Right to Freedom of Speech

Prashant Bhushan contempt case: A mute hearing

The hearing was concluded in-camera which no public access to the conversation between the bench and the counsel

Hope probe focuses on real perpetrators of Delhi violence: Prof Apoorvanand

The Delhi University professor was interrogated by the police in connection with the February 2020 riots

Police probe ordered by NHRC into death threats on journalist: Sultanpur rape case

CJP had moved NHRC seeking protection for reporter who had exposed police inaction and possible cover-up in the case

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