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“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

Those in India must act as per its culture: Supreme Court on PIL against religious conversion

The Court refused to entertain objections raised against the maintainability of a public interest litigation (PIL) petition seeking steps against forced religious conversion, despite the fact that established law precludes a petitioner who has petitioned courts as many as four times is not entitled to do so, again

When silence is eloquent

The tortuous course of the law

Students cut hair in protest against moral policing in Kerala

Students stated that the protest was held to express solidarity with the students who suffered the moral policing attack

Bulldozer injustice: this will only stop when a police officer is sent to jail, says Patna HC

The court said that it will make sure that the petitioner gets compensation from the perpetrators

Does paying salaries to Imams amount to ‘betraying’ the Hindu community’?

Remarks of Central Information Commissioner (CIC), Mahurkar followed the Delhi Waqf Board submitted data that revealed that the wages of imams and mosque helpers increased four-fold since 2014 after the Kejriwal-lef AAP government came to power in the national capital.

Bilkis Bano approaches Supreme Court to contest premature release of rape convicts

Survivor of Gujarat Riots Gang Rape Demands Justice, files petition against remission granted on August 15

CAA discriminatory against Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka: DMK

The party, which is one of the 200 petitioners before the apex court challenging CAA, has now filed an additional affidavit

Why Judiciary and Executive must heed President Murmu’s serious concerns on prisoners’ rights

Appalled at the government’s talk of building more jails, President Murmu made a strong appeal that the governments and judiciary should work together to tackle problems like poor legal aid, pre-trial detentions and the over-representation of marginalised communities inside jails.

SC, once again, seeks DLSA intervention to ensure that under trials unable to provide surety are released from prison

A failure to provide bail bonds or surety is a common occurrence leading to many under trials languishing in jails, despite securing bail

Is the Centre overreaching itself in returning Collegium recommendations, again?

The Centre has, in the recent past, cherry picked recommendations and has defied the norm of approving reiterated names

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“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

Non-Electors Within Electors: ECI reports over 61 lakh potential exclusions

As Bihar's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) deadline arrives, ECI data reveals over 61 lakh potential voter exclusions, including millions identified as deceased, migrated, or 1 lakh untraceable, and nearly 7 lakh who haven't submitted forms, this massive culling of names fuels the INDIA Bloc's intensified, third-day protest, marked by LoP Mallikarjun Kharge's dramatic tearing of a symbolic SIR document outside Parliament

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

Bihar’s untraceable electors spiral by 809% in just one day, ECI reports 1 lakh ‘missing’, 15 lakh Bihar voters yet to submit forms

Bihar's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls faces intense backlash, while 52 lakh deletions were flagged by July 22 by the controversial ECI, including 11,484 "untraceable" electors, this figure for "untraceable" voters shockingly surged to 1 lakh (an 809% jump) by July 23, with overall deletions hitting 56 lakh—a dramatic increase of 3 lakh in just 24 hours. Leader of the Opposition, RJD leader, Tejaswi Yadav threatens boycott of state polls

From villages to docks, Maharashtra rises against a weaponised law, eviction & vigilante violence

Three powerful protest movements, against a repressive law, vigilante violence, and forced evictions, are converging in Maharashtra, revealing a common story: the criminalisation of survival

In a ‘major win’ for anti-caste activists, a US Federal Court upholds California Govt’s authority to act against caste oppression

The US District Court for the Eastern District of California in its ruling on July 18, in response to an allegation by the Hindu American Foundation that had claimed that the California civil rights department's enforcement of anti-caste policies violated the “constitutional rights of all Hindu Americans,” dismissed HAF’s contention

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

When data is used as a weapon against reality: Deviations in the HCES & CES, claims of poverty line

This Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) is qualitatively different in methodology (including sampling) from the earlier Household Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) last conducted in 2011-12, and therefore the two are not comparable. So the claim that India’s poverty has declined to below 5% doesn’t hold water: Second, the NITI Aayog has made no effort to even determine an official poverty line, last defined in the Census 2001.