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Ex-TISS student gets bail as Mumbai Court rejects Maoist link based on ‘suspicion’

Court rejects the prosecution’s attempt to link Abhirup Ashim Paul to Maoist activities, holding that books, slogans and association with a student group could not by themselves establish such a connection

Meet Sudha Bhardwaj: Lawyer and Trade Unionist accused of being an “Urban Naxal”

Sudha Bharadwaj, born in 1961, has been associated with the trade...

EXCLUSIVE Did Pune Police violate Law on Arrests, Seizure and Raid?

Analysis of procedural lapses during nationwide raids on activists...

Who is Milind Ekbote?

First published on January 22, 2018The name of Milind...

My thirty years of academic life has been destroyed in five minutes: Prof Satyanarayana

Heavy-handedness of Indian law enforcement agencies plummets to new...

SC Moved Over Countrywide Arrests of Lawyers and Activists, Hearing at 3.45 p.m.

UPDATE: Breaking- #BhimaKoregaon Bench headed by the Chief Justice...

Pune Police Attempts to Thwart HC Order, Forcibly Detains Sudha Bhardwaj

Sheer Contempt of High Court, alleges Advocate Vrinda Grover    In...

SHRC Directs DM, Amroha to Act on CJP’s Complaint against Hate: UP

On the back of the Kasganj Republic Day Violence,...

Which political party in India really backs the Dalits today?

It was just recently that the atrocity law --enacted...

An Open Letter to Dr Hiren Gohain

Dear Dr Gohain,   When a friend forwarded the link to...

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