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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

Allahabad High Court imposes Rs. 5 lakhs cost for misuse of Goondas Act

The court noted that the Gorakhpur district administration abused the law and harassed the petitioner

“Bulldozer Injustice”: Time for courts to actively step in

Demolishing homes of alleged miscreants or gangsters has become the norm in states like UP, MP, Gujarat and Delhi, Uttarakhand, Karnataka seem to be catching up as well. Lack of stringent action by courts has not helped the victims.

“No prima facie case,” says Bom HC granting bail to Anand Teltumbde on merits

The court additionally held that since he has no criminal antecedents and also has spent more than 2.5 years in prison, the case for bail is made out.

Delhi violence 2020: Court acquits 4 accused of arson, rioting and theft

The court held that the witness were unable to prove the case against the accused beyond doubts while the accused asserted that they were not present at the time of incident

Gyanvapi mosque: Cannot conduct carbon dating of ‘Shivling’, says ASI

The ASI told the Allahabad High Court that carbon dating cannot be conducted on inanimate objects that do not contain fossil.

Assam: Forest guards shoot at woodcutters during patrol; one dead

The injured person is still undergoing treatment at the hospital and a third person is untraceable since the incident

Lower court judges hesitant to give bail: Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud

NEW DELHI: India’s 50th Chief Justice, DY Chandrachud stated that...

Digital Personal Data Protection Bill seeks to amend RTI Act to bar disclosure of personal information

The draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, which was released by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on November 18 to invite public comments, has a provision which proposes to amend the Right To Information Act 2005.

89 Members of Assam Foreigners Tribunals move Supreme Court against dismissal from service

These members were appointed on a contractual basis pursuant to a Supreme Court direction passed on May 30, 2019, which called for establishment of additional Foreigners Tribunals.

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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.