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‘They Have a Right to Be Heard’: Supreme Court suggests Union brings back alleged deportees from Bangladesh “at least as a temporary measure”

Top Court questions the Union’s resistance to repatriation, stressing that individuals asserting Indian citizenship cannot be expelled without enquiry, hearing, or due process — as both Indian and Bangladeshi courts find the June 2025 deportations unconstitutional and improperly executed

K’taka Anti-Conversion Law: HC judgement sets a precedent against potential weaponisation by third-party vigilantes

Ruling that a complaint cannot be filed by an unrelated third party, the Karnataka High Court has significantly read down section 4 of the state law

Bihar SIR: 65 Lakh electors flagged for deletion, SC said “if there is mass exclusion, we will immediately step in”

Bihar's SIR of electoral rolls concluded on July 26, with 7.24 crore (91.69%) enumeration forms collected out of 7.89 crore electors, 65 lakh voters have been flagged for potential deletion, meanwhile, on July 28, the SC refused to halt the draft roll publication on August 1, in a July 29 hearing, the court signalled a strong stand against apprehension of "mass exclusion," with petitioners stating, ECI know who the 65 lakh people, if ECI mention the names in draft list, we have no problem

“Humans Cannot Just Disappear”: Gauhati High Court told in Doyjan Bibi case as State fails to produce pushback documents

July 25 hearing exposes disturbing lack of procedural compliance; BSF confirms ‘pushback’ of Doyjan Bibi, but State fails to furnish proof of handover to Bangladeshi authorities

7/11 Bomb Blasts: Supreme Court Judgement says Bombay HC Order cannot be treated as Precedent

The Supreme Court has not interfered with the high court’s finding in the 7/11 train blasts case that the 12 men are innocent; their personal liberty, for the moment remains unaffected after release

Still Waiting in Grief: How the 2006 Mumbai train blast victims were denied closure and justice

As the acquittal of 12 innocent men wrongfully confined for the 7/11 (Mumbai 2006) blasts is welcomed, we must remember the grief of 189 victims of the blasts; the state failure, and a failed system that let the real perpetrators go free

Gauhati High Court demands Centre’s deportation order amid mounting legal questions over re-detention of bail-compliant individuals

Counsel for petitioners’ Abdul Shiekh and Majibur Rehman argue detention violates unrevoked Supreme Court–granted bail; Court directs State to place MHA’s May 2025 deportation notification on record to examine legal justification

“A Constitutionally Imperative to Ensure Justice”: Supreme Court Orders CBI probe, arrests, and ₹50 Lakh compensation for brutal custodial torture of constable in J&K

Describing the case as ‘unprecedented in gravity,’ the Court demolishes the state’s suicide narrative, quashes the retaliatory FIR, and affirms that the documented injuries, including complete genital mutilation and anal insertion, are medically impossible to be self-inflicted

How deviant acts mar the sacred Kanwar Yatra

A tide of lawlessness, marked by widespread hooliganism, identity-based assaults on eateries, and highway obstruction, grips the Kanwar Yatra across UP and Uttarakhand, amidst alarming reports of assaults on eatery owners based on their identity, SC refused to examine controversial QR code directives issued by UP and Uttarakhand authorities, mandating hotels must display licenses and registration

A Spectacle of Injustice Undone: After 19 years, Bombay HC’s acquittal in the 7/11 Mumbai train blasts case recognises the (mis) use of ‘torture...

Nearly two decades after the devastating blasts, that took place on July 7, 2006, the Bombay High Court exposes fabricated evidence, custodial torture, and investigative tunnel vision—overturning death and life sentences in a damning rebuke of India’s anti-terror justice system

Recalibrating Free Speech: The Supreme Court’s constitutional turn in the digital age

Four recent judgments reveal the Indian Supreme Court’s shift toward balancing free expression with dignity, digital accountability, and constitutional values of fraternity and responsibility

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‘They Have a Right to Be Heard’: Supreme Court suggests Union brings back alleged deportees from Bangladesh “at least as a temporary measure”

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A New Silence: The Supreme Court’s turn toward non-interference in hate-speech cases

The Court’s refusal to monitor rising hate-speech incidents marks a decisive shift from its earlier activist stance, exposing contradictions between judicial pronouncements, institutional capacity, and the lived realities of targeted communities

Israel, United States & and other complicit entities guilty of genocide, ecocide, and forced starvation in Palestine: International People’s Tribunal

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In a multi-state report on the hasty and ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process being conducted by the ECI, the PUCL has, echoing what opposition parties and other civil rights groups been stating, called it ‘designed to excluide’

The Deadly Deadline: “I Can’t Do This Anymore”—India’s electoral revision turns into a graveyard for BLOs/teachers

From consuming poison in Uttar Pradesh to hanging in West Bengal, the ‘Deadly Deadline’ of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) triggers a suicide wave among teachers and Anganwadi workers, employees’ unions cry 'institutional murder' while families mourn loved ones broken by state pressure

November 26: How RSS mourned the passage of India’s Constitution by the Constituent Assembly

On November 26, 2025, India’s 77th Constitution Day, students of history must recall how majoritarian outfits like the RSS mourned the passage of modern India’s liberating moment, the passage of the Constitution

A Terror Case Without Evidence: Allahabad High Court’s ‘heavy heart’ acquittal After 28 Years

A devastating judicial analysis reveals how a mass-casualty blast, a collapsed investigation, and an inadmissible police confession led to the undoing of a decades-old conviction