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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
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Activists who participated in the anti CAA movement say Delhi Police is attempting to criminalise a peaceful protest
Riot book authors meet Delhi Police Commissioner, file complaint against Bloomsbury and others
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How the regime is hounding Human Rights Defender Dr. Kafeel Khan
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Northeast Delhi riots: Crime Branch questions activist Umar Khalid again
The former JNU scholar was last questioned in August under the same investigation, and his phone was seized
Remembering Kandhamal
After travelling to Gujarat following the pogrom of 2002, I began inquiring into Hindu nationalist mobilisations in Odisha
Tablighi Jamaat: Bom HC judge disagrees with colleague’s remark on “indirect warning to Muslims”
Justice Sewlikar has said he does not conform to Justice Nalawade’s views that taking action against Tablighi Jamaat attendees was a warning for Indian Muslims in light of anti-CAA protests
Kandhamal 2020: We live with the national shame of impunity in perpetuity
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Kandhamal: Brotherhood of victims
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How courts rescued the Tablighi Jamaat from further hatred
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