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After 772 Days in Detention, Ajabha Khatun Returns Home: CJP helps secure her release

Ajabha Khatun’s conditional release brings relief to her family, while her pending legal case and her plea for another detainee underline the fight that remains

UP Bajrang Dal leader and 3 others arrested for slaughtering cows to falsely implicate a Muslim man

According to the police version, as reported by The Indian Express, one of the accused took the help of Bajrang Dal workers to put his ‘enemy’ in jail by making it appear that he had slaughtered cows.

Where thou prisoner rights? Five out of six accused in parliament breach case allege torture, electric shocks

An application has been moved by the five in a Delhi Court, the five have submitted that they were tortured to confess to crimes, accept association with political parties, made to sign 70 blank papers

Judges differ on challenge against IT amendments of 2023, right to freedom of speech & expression hangs in balance

Bombay HC's Chief Justice will now place matter before a third bench within 10 days as Justice Patel rules in favour of the petitioner and scraps the amendments while Justice Gokhale upholds the amendments

Courts and the Gandhi murder case: What happened on January 30 and who was behind it?

75 years have passed since the assassination of Gandhi - CJP analyses the historical judgements by the trial courts and high courts in the murder of the father of the nation

Four years behind bars, Sharjeel Imam still waits for a fair trial

Serving as an under trial prisoner since 2020 and not convicted so far, Sharjeel Imam, taken into custody after the anti-CAA movements when activists associated with the movement were being arrested, has completed more than half of the maximum sentence that the cases against him suggest

Mira Road: Muslim youth allegedly beaten in custody, denied food as Nitesh Rane tells supporters, “The Government is with you.”

Last week Mumbai’s Mira Road saw widespread violence as a mob of Hindutva supporters had rallied in the area and subjected the residents and their properties to violence. Rane, implicated earlier for making incendiary statements allegedly, once again is in the news for a controversial speech

Bombay HC refuses to prohibit Maratha reservation activist Manoj Jarange Patil’s protest in Mumbai on republic day

The division bench of the HC stated that the State has the power to take necessary measures to prevent law and order situation, blockage of roads; the morcha has reached Panvel today, and will be entering Mumbai tomorrow morning

Five FTII Pune students booked by police for “hurting religious sentiments” over displaying ‘Remember Babri’ banner

FIR based on complaint of president of the women's wing Hindutva group that barged into the FTII campus, indulged in vandalism and assaults; out of the seven names mentioned in the FIR, two are fake

Why no action against hate monger, BJP leader, Vikram Pawaskar asks Bombay HC

The high court bench also directed the police to ensure protection of petitioner, witness in the cause after concerns of safety were raised in the hearing

Students of the law move Bombay High Court challenging declaration of holiday on Ram Mandir inauguration day

According to the petition, the State government decision is nothing but expending from government exchequer for religious purpose which is prohibited under the Constitution. 

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After 772 Days in Detention, Ajabha Khatun Returns Home: CJP helps secure her release

Ajabha Khatun’s conditional release brings relief to her family, while her pending legal case and her plea for another detainee underline the fight that remains