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The country they called home, the identity they had to defend

An elderly couple’s journey through fear, evidence and the law ends with two Foreigners Tribunal victories aided by CJP’s legal aid team

Siddique Kappan “secretly” discharged from AIIMS, taken to Mathura jail 

The journalist, who was diagnosed as Covid-19 positive was receiving treatment at the Delhi hospital, but was reportedly discharged without informing his family or lawyer, alleges wife

No space to bury the dead in Maharashtra

While corpses pile up at crematoria, minorities struggle to accommodate a deluge of new arrivals at burial grounds

Why India Must Salute its Muslims

Here is Islam at its best and Muslims who are committed to this ideal are its finest ambassadors

Muslim advocacy group’s tweet comparing Kumbh Mela with Tablighi Jamaat blocked

IAMC has been criticising the Modi regime’s mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic, now it finds itself among over 50 others whose Tweets were blocked

Minority miracle frontline workers leading battle against Coronavirus in Maharashtra

Concerned citizens have started a coordinated effort to ensure oxygen supply to patients and requested government backing for their initiative

Application for production of Umar Khalid and Khalid Saifi in handcuffs ‘bereft of reasons’: Delhi Court

The court questioned the Delhi Police for filing an application calling them ‘high risk prisoners’ and handcuffing both their hands at the back

Unauthorised census portal asking people to register in Assam

Website asks for private information like Aadhaar card number, but no clarity on where the data will be stored and how securely

K’taka HC dismisses petition against “illegal crosses”, calls it motivated

The Court said that they get several petitions of Hindu temples constructed on government land

Kerala HC reclaims right of extra-judicial divorce for Muslim women

The court asserted rights of Muslim women to seeks extra-judicial dissolution of marriage as per Shariat Act, and laid out guidelines for Family Courts to deal with such declarations.

Delhi HC allows 50 persons to offer namaz at Nizamuddin Markaz mosque

The court said that the permission was granted only because other places of worship were open

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