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Judgement delivered, paradox prevails: every voter a citizen, but what is the fate of 51.8 million excluded?
The Supreme Court’s May 27, 2026 verdict upholding the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) settles the legal question of constitutional authority but leaves unresolved concerns on absence of due process and independent functioning by the ECI, the arbitrary abuse of process and access: questions of unreasonable and unchecked mass deletions etc.
The folly of Supercop characters: A look at how films propagate the normalisation of Police Excess
If there is one film genre that gives a film more than some decent chances at the box office even if it is made with a mediocre script is a Cop Story. Examples include the Dabangg and Singham franchises.
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
Students cut hair in protest against moral policing in Kerala
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Bulldozer injustice: this will only stop when a police officer is sent to jail, says Patna HC
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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
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