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From Cow Slaughter to “Public Order”: Allahabad High Court’s expanding use of preventive detention
Through detailed reliance on fear, timing, intelligence inputs, and administrative response, the Court stretches “public order” to justify preventive detention—raising difficult questions about liberty, evidence, and constitutional limits
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Bombay High Court: Plea seeking FIR against three BJP legislators for delivering hate speeches, highlights inaction by police even after Supreme Court guidelines
Through the petition, action against BJP MLAs Geeta Jain, Nitish Rane and T. Raja Singh have been urged by the court for “spreading hate speech and inciting violence”, multiple incidents of hate speech and incitement in Maharashtra highlighted
SC sets clear guidelines on pleas of partners who relationships are targeted
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From ensuring privacy, safe environment and acknowledging social stigma to immediate hearing and interim relief, Supreme Court directs courts to secure the fundamental rights and dignity of intimate partners, especially those LGBTQ+, inter- caste and inter-faith; often these pleas are habeas corpus petitions
SC: Give ration cards to 8 crore migrant/unorganised sector workers within two months
The Supreme Court’s landmark decision on the Right to Food directs that ration cards must be issued irrespective of quotas set under NFSA
Uttarakhand HC: State government to formulate general instructions to enable couples to approach police with protection plea
The division bench was dealing with a protection plea filed by a couple who had urged judicial intervention to ensure that they are not be harmed by the families
ECI: Complaint against PM Modi for violating Code of Conduct
Rajya Sabha MP from the Trinamool Congress, Saket Gokhale has filed a complaint with the ECI against PM Narendra Modi for violating the Model Code of Conduct for using an Indian Air Force helicopter to attend an election rally in AC 96-Chilakaluripet in Palnadu, Andhra Pradesh yesterday
Ahmedabad Magistrate Court finds investigation against Mevani flimsy, acquits Mevani and others in Ahmedabad rail roko case
The Ahmedabad Magistrate Court judge P N Goswami observed that except for police witnesses, no other evidence to prove the accused guilty of the crime
Supreme Court rejects SBI plea for extension in electoral bond case, pulls up the bank for the delay
Rejecting the extension application of SBI the SC has ordered the bank to disclose the details of electoral bonds, including donor and party details, by 12 March
Two cops dismissed for negligence of duty after 3 Muslims, one officer were shot dead by RPF officer
Two Railway Police Force constables have been dismissed in the case of hate killings by an RPF officer where 3 Muslims and one RPF officer were gunned down in a train in July 2023.
On March 5, 18 days after the SC stuck down electoral bond scheme, directing full disclosure of donor details, SBI fails to comply
Monday, March 11, five days after the SBI was supposed to handover the details of donors to Election Commission on March 5, the SC dismisses SBI’s application for extension; it had failed to comply with the February 15 order of the SC
ECI must announce elections only after SBI provides details of corporate purchase of electoral bonds: Ex-Civil servants
In a strongly worded public appeal to the Election Commission of India (ECI), 80 former public servants have argued for a moral and legal compulsion for elections to be held only after SBI makes corporate purchase of electoral bonds public
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From FIRs to “Corporate Jihad”: How the TCS Nashik case was transformed from an investigation into a communal narrative
As police probe serious claims of harassment, a parallel story of conspiracy and conversion dominates public discourse
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
Telangana: Stop forcible ‘re-location of Chenchu Adivasis from Amrabad Tiger Reserve
Adivasis and supporting activists have petitioned the authorities against what they term as the ‘forcible re-location” of Chenchu (PVTG) Adivasis in the Amravad Tiger Reserve and urged a ‘co-existence’ model of conservation
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
Victory for Forest Rights: Allahabad HC recognises land claims of Tharu Tribes, strikes down decision of DLC
The Allahabad High Court recently struck down a 2021 decision of the District Level Committee (DLC), Lakhimpur upholding the land rights of the Tharu tribe while observing that the authorities cannot short-circuit the existing statutory rights of the forest dwellers by blindly relying on court orders issued before the enactment of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 (FRA, 2006). This law recognises the individual and community rights of Adivasis.
Gender and Sexuality
Amendment to Women’s Reservation Bill: BJP’s hyperbole on women
The past conduct and ideological moorings of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as that of its parent body, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) reflect not just extreme and exclusivist views on women’s participation but are arguably distinctly misogynistic