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Khargone riots case collapses: Four years after Ram Navami violence, MP court acquits 11 accused, finds prosecution failed to establish guilt

A sessions court points to hostile witnesses, unexplained delays, lack of identification procedures and forensic inconsistencies; accused, all of whom who were Muslim, spent up to 827 days in jail

MP HC drops NSA charges, grants bail to 4 Muslim youth

The Indore Bench passes order saying that the government had incorrectly utilised the law for baseless charges.

Modi must not be allowed to appropriate Bhai Taru Singh

The Prime Minister recently paid tribute to a Sikh martyr who had laid down his life in defence of his faith.

Delhi violence: State Home Dept scanner on video clip of woman ‘pelting stones’

SabrangIndia had flagged Ragni Tiwari’s communally inflammatory videos in February; her social media pages were full of incendiary videos and rants against Muslims

Assam to shut down gov’t run madrasas, Sanskrit tols?

Himanta Biswa Sarma says no religious education should be imparted with government funds

Stand with Stan: Christian groups demand immediate release of the activist-priest

Activists and civil society groups wonder if Stan Swamy's arrest is an attempt to silence voice of Tribal rights

Muslim journalist, 3 others arrested near Hathras, booked under sedition law 

The four were arrested on Monday when they were driving down from Delhi to Hathras

Delhi Court grants Noor Mohammed bail in riots case

Court cited lack of evidence, and that an accused cannot be jailed indefinitely on grounds of an ongoing investigation, as reasons

Delhi pogrom 2020 reminded me of Mumbai riots 1992: Justice (retd) B N Srikrishna

The  report by The Lawyers Initiative, titled Delhi Riots of 2020: Causes, Fallout and Aftermath, records events from months before the first stone was hurled in North East Delhi. 

Conversions and anti-Christian violence in India

Satyapal Singh’s statements against Graham Staines had been countered in Parliament

Was Mughal Rule the period of India’s Slavery?

Communal ideology regards Islam as alien religion and Muslims as foreigners

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Khargone riots case collapses: Four years after Ram Navami violence, MP court acquits 11 accused, finds prosecution failed to establish guilt

A sessions court points to hostile witnesses, unexplained delays, lack of identification procedures and forensic inconsistencies; accused, all of whom who were Muslim, spent up to 827 days in jail

SIR Maharashtra: CEO details schedules for publication & verification of draft and final electoral rolls

Maharashtra, with 9,78,54,049 has electors which is the base figure for the re-examination of electoral rolls under the ongoing SIR; now the CEO Maharashtra has outlined a schedule detailing deadlines for enumeration, draft publication, claims and objections, verification, final electoral roll publication and post-publication correction procedures

Rajya Sabha passes Vande Mataram bill as NCRB data reveals high pendency, low convictions

While Parliament broadens the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, crime records show only 60 convictions from over 1,100 arrests between 2014 and 2024

The Supreme Court’s Uneasy Middle Path on Protest Policing

The July 28 interim order preserves evidence and contemplates an SIT, but leaves unresolved who should investigate when the police themselves stand accused

The Republic Speaks Back: How Student Power Reminded Authority of Its Limits

The author argues that varied protests and movements of the past dozen years --from the anti-CAA/NRC protests, to the farmers’ mass mobilisations to the recent Gen ‘Z’ upsurge --these movements may differ in their immediate demands, but they share a common democratic foundation: Citizens do not take to the streets because they have abandoned faith in the Republic. They do so because they believe the Republic can still be made to listen.

Maharashtra: After backlash, govt. moves to withdraw FIRs against student protesters but questions remain

Following weeks of pressure from student groups and opposition parties, the state has begun withdrawing police cases linked to the NEET protests, while assuring there will be no coercive action during the legal process

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