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66 Deaths in 13 Months: Uproar in Chhattisgarh Assembly by opposition over prison conditions and custodial accountability

Government confirms inmate deaths; Opposition alleges overcrowding, medical neglect, and governance failure — demands legislative probe into tribal leader’s custodial death

Invisible Assaults: How India’s crime data erases violence against women and children

Statistics describe order; gendered violence exists outside the neat cells of spreadsheets. This article reconnects data with lived reality

Union government challenges Calcutta High Court repatriation order, moves Supreme Court instead even as Bangladesh declares six deported Bengalis Indian citizens

Rather than complying with the Calcutta High Court’s directive to bring back six wrongly deported residents of West Bengal’s Birbhum district, the Union government has challenged the order in the Supreme Court — even as a Bangladesh court and multiple documents affirm the victims’ Indian citizenship

Statistical Amnesia: How Communal Violence Vanishes in NCRB 2023

When “rioting” becomes the default label, targeted violence is invisible—this is India’s quiet apocalypse in the NCRB 2023 report

Understanding the Supreme Court’s Interim Intervention in the Waqf Amendments, 2025

Be it on the issue of the disproportionately stringent control over the Islamic institution of Waqf (as compared to the administration of Hindu muths or temples), the Supreme Court’s part interim reliefs to the controversial 2025 Waqf Amendment Act, risk a judicial stamp on the state’s sledgehammer approach; a detailed analysis of the SC’s interim order dated September 15, 2025

Allahabad High Court directs UP Police to ensure safe return of inter-faith to their desired destination

Missing after court testimony, inter-faith couple rescued, ‘Liberty Can’t Be Curtailed by Social Pressure,’ says Allahabad HC in holiday hearing, slams police for illegal detention, directed the SSP Aligarh to conduct an inquiry into the entire incident and submit a detailed report by November 28

“They were once sent back”: Court refrains from probing State’s claim as Assam seeks to justify continued detention

No evidence produced to support alleged deportation; Court yet to examine verification question, to deliver order on October 24 on legality of continued detention

From Victim to Accused: High Court of Gujarat’s 2025 Ruling on Religious Conversion

In a decision that may reverberate across India's legal milieu and minority rights landscape, the Gujarat High Court has ruled that individuals who have been forcibly or wrongfully converted themselves may be charged in criminal proceedings if they then "influence" or abet someone else to convert

ADR refutes allegation of giving false voter affidavit in SC hearing

ADR clarifies no false affidavit was filed in Supreme Court, rebuts ECI counsel’s claims with verified voter data, upholds commitment to factual accuracy and non-partisan reporting, and expresses concern over treatment of elector involved following recent court proceedings

Bangladesh Court declares six deported Bengalis as Indian citizens, orders their repatriation

In a dramatic reversal, a Bangladesh court has ruled that two families — including a pregnant woman from West Bengal’s Birbhum district — who were forcibly deported from Delhi as “illegal Bangladeshis” are in fact Indian citizens, citing their Aadhaar and home addresses

Crimes Uncounted: When Data Becomes the State’s Defence

A delay of two years, unreliable hate-crime statistics, and discarded sedition charges, the NCRB 2023 Report offers us marginal data on crime but plentiful data on social control

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