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Reaffirming Open Justice: The Supreme Court on speech and contempt

In the case of Wikimedia v. ANI Media Private Limited & Ors. the apex court reaffirmed free speech and restrained a Delhi High Court order that was held, on examination to be disproportionate

UAPA: 11.7% rise in cases pending trial, shows MHA data

Compared to number of cases pending trial in 2019, there has been a 11.7% increase in the figures of cases pending trial as of end of 2021, showing a steady rise in pending UAPA cases

Evidence planted on Jesuit-activist Stan Swamy’s laptop: Arsenal US Report

The report blasts a hole in the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) charges against Stan Swamy; before this similar plants had been found in Rona Wilson and Surendra Gadling’s computers

J&K: 2 convicted under UAPA in last 3 years; over 1000 arrested, MHA tells Parliament

The MHA submitted data for 3 years of persons arrested and convicted under UAPA as well as juveniles detained

J’khand: Chaibasa tribals allegedly assaulted by security forces during Naxal search op

Gram Sabha Anjedbeda has appealed to the local MLA, MP as well as the National Human Rights Commission as well as the Deputy Commissioner of West Singbhum, Chaibasa

Lakhimpur Kheri witness alleges he was attacked with swords, no witness protection despite scheme in place since 2018

Farmer Prabhjot Singh, the third witness in the case to be attacked, said the assault took place in Tikunia, Teni’s village

Protesting for release of GN Saibaba, Delhi students ‘assaulted’ by ABVP, cops

 India’s premier human rights network, National Alliance of People’s...

State has no business to know if a person has changed religion: Deepak Gupta former SC Judge

This is the full transcript of the interview of former Supreme Court judge Justice Deepak Gupta with Manu Sebastian, Managing Editor of LiveLaw, on the sensitive subject of India’s anti-conversion laws.

Bilkis Bano review petition to be listed before Bench for consideration through circulation, says SC

Bilkis Bano has sought a review of the Supreme Court judgment which had paved the way for the Gujarat government to consider and release 11 convicts serving life sentence in her case

Remove scurrilous remarks against minority religions, SC tells Ashwini Upadhay: petition against ‘mass coversions’

A bench of Justices MR Shah and Ravinndra Bhat also stated that they would consider all interventions, those filed by Kerala Rationalist Association, some Christian organisations including activist John Dayal and former planning commission member Dr Syeda Hameed

CJP’s PIL seeking directions for established law & procedure on religious processions: A Factsheet

While an MHA 2019 advisory, Indian criminal law and Arms Act as well as judgements & Judicial Commission Reports required implementation of strict norms and restrictions these were often breached, states the PIL

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Reaffirming Open Justice: The Supreme Court on speech and contempt

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Our self-styled “left liberal” intelligentsia, otherwise loud in denouncing Hindu majoritarianism, suddenly turned mute when confronted with Muslim right-wing pressure

Election Commission seriously risks losing all credibility: senior advocate Sanjay Hegde

Senior advocate, Supreme Court Sanjay Hegde on Saturday, September 6, raised concerns over the credibility of the Election Commission of India, cautioning that the institution is increasingly being viewed as partisan, speaking at the annual public lecture on the occasion of Gauri Lankesh’s brutal assassination

India’s Silent Push-Out: Courts, states, and the deportation of Bengali-Speaking Muslims

From migrant workers vanishing in midnight raids to a Kolkata man driven to suicide by fear, reports across states reveal a disturbing pattern of expulsions without due process — now under scrutiny in India’s courts

Safe harbour or shadow censorship? The battle over India’s digital speech

The Karnataka High Court’s ruling on X Corp’s challenge could either restore the centrality Section 69A as the sole content blocking mechanism, or re-ignite the issues that were closed in Shreya Singhal

The Mubarakpur Saree in the Digital Age: Can e-commerce bypass traditional barriers?

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