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Equal Inheritance Rights for Muslim Women: Upholding Constitutional Justice and Gender Equality

March 17, 2026 Press Statement by Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) wholeheartedly welcomes the recent observations made by the Supreme Court of India during...

Booklet on Modi’s “special relationship” with Sikhs misleading

It allegedly tries to hide some facts about 1984 Genocide  

Allahabad HC protects man booked under UP ‘love jihad’ law

The court has upheld the Right to Privacy and choice of two adults, noting that the allegations prime facie is based on mere suspicions

Will a vile electronic media pay for vilification of the Tablighi Jamaat?

In this second part of a to-part series SabrangIndia traces how media coverage reinvigorated Islamophobia

Clean chit to Tablighi Jamaat, too little, too late?

Part-one of this two-part series traces how courts have ruled against hate. But with the incessant vilification, perhaps the damage has already been done.

Latehar lynching case: Jharkhand HC dismissed plea for convict’s suspension of sentence

Awadhesh Sao had been convicted in the lynching of a cattle trader and an 11-year-old boy

Supreme Court upholds Allahabad HC’s order quashing Dr. Kafeel Khan’s detention

The doctor's release order under NSA was challenged by the Uttar Pradesh government on October 26, 2020

Jamiat Ulama to contest decision to convert all madrasas into regular schools in Assam

State gov’t to table bill in Assembly on December 28

Tablighi Jamaat: Delhi court acquits all foreigners after months of trial

The court pulled up the SHO of Hazrat Nizamuddin/complainant for lapses in the identification of the accused

Why did Delhi Police detain Umar Khalid’s mother and sister at night?

The women were detained on the night of December 15, 2020. But the Supreme Court has mandated that it is illegal to arrest / detain women after sundown and before sunrise

Part-3: Identity of the ‘Ordinary Indian’

Concluding part of a three-part series

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