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When Protest becomes a “Threat”: Inside the Supreme Court hearing on Sonam Wangchuk’s NSA detention

From alleged “Arab Spring inspiration” to missing exculpatory material, the case raises stark questions about preventive detention, free speech, and governance in India’s border regions

India’s Justice Delivery System Exposed: Startling Statistics Revealed in 2022 Justice Report

The report is a culmination of quantitative research carried out over 24 months, based on data and official statistics collected from government sources

SC for freedom of expression: Strikes down ban on Media One

In a decisive 133 page judgement the apex court lifted the ban that had been suddenly imposed on January 31, 2023 brushing aside “national security concerns@ cited by the union government and upheld by the Kerala High Court

Long Delayed Justice: Retired Police SI guilty of extra-judicial killing 31 years down, sentenced to life imprisonment

In this case, the officer had shot a 21 year old student, claimed that he had acted in self-defence

Maliana acquittals 36 years after 72 Muslims massacred in cold blood, abysmal failure of justice, substantive & procedural

The acquittals took place despite directions by the High Court being seized of the matter since 2021 where the issue raised is of crucial documents including the FIR and other evidence had “gone missing”, of strict and fair procedures that need to be followed; this 2021 legal intervention by a journalist Qurban Ali, who covered the cold blooded massacre in 1987 and Vibhuti Narain Rai, an IPS officer who, as SP Ghaziabad had filed the FIR in the Hashimpura carnage the day before, in the High Court  will now be heard with the judgement of acquittal being passed without completion of trial procedure

A right half won, evolution of women’s right to property under the Hindu Succession Act

Despite several attempts in the previous century the real change came 50 years later, in 2005. However lack of implementation and societal patriarchy has still not meant that property rights have been realised by Indian Hindu women.

9 years since the passing of the NALSA judgment, has the cycle of discrimination and ostracism finally been broken for the transgender community?

On this International Transgender Day of Visibility, CJP examines the Indian state's failures and successes in advancing the welfare of the transgender community

2008 Jaipur blasts: Rajasthan HC acquits all four who were given death penalty

The High Court found significant faults in the police investigation and has urged prosecution of the errant officers who investigated the case

Police to closely monitor Ram Navami processions in Hyderabad and Mumbai

CJP wrote to the local police in both cities and sought preventive action against these rallies organised by right wing groups, whoever the police assured strict vigilance

Jamia violence case: Delhi High Court overturns trial court order discharging Sharjeel Imam, Asif Tanha, Safoora Zargar and others

The Court, inter alia, observed that protests had turned violent and the accused continued to be part of the protests that had turned violent

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When Protest becomes a “Threat”: Inside the Supreme Court hearing on Sonam Wangchuk’s NSA detention

From alleged “Arab Spring inspiration” to missing exculpatory material, the case raises stark questions about preventive detention, free speech, and governance in India’s border regions

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