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Guarding culture or policing faith? Chhattisgarh High Court’s ‘social menace’ observation and the future of Article 25

While affirming Gram Sabha authority under the PESA Act to prevent “forced conversions,” the Chhattisgarh High Court’s ruling raises deeper concerns about the limits of religious liberty, evidentiary reasoning, and constitutional secularism in India’s tribal heartland

Assam developing SOPs for Imams coming from ‘outside’

Move comes after nearly 30 people including at least three Imams with alleged links to terror groups were nabbed from madrasas during operations conducted since March

UP: 26 booked for holding ‘unlawful’ assembly for namaz at home

Pictures of people purportedly praying inside the house in 'large numbers' at Dulhepur village had gone viral on social media

Signature campaign demanding justice for Bilkis Bano on Mumbai’s trains

First person account of the experience of concerned citizens and rights activists as they talked to commuters on Mumbai's local trains on August 21, about the Bilkis Bano case, and gathered signatures against the remission of sentence granted to the convicts

Bereft of words, still numb: Bilkis Bano

The survivor breaks her silence on the release of 11 convicts; words of support for her pour in

Bilkis Bano case: Eleven people convicted of gang rape and murder freed

A state government panel approved their application for remission of sentence

Cases Against Prayagraj Activists for June 10 Violence Narrate Saga of Bias

There are striking similarities in the incriminating language of the various FIRs, bringing into doubt the veracity of charges filed by authorities in cases pertaining to the violence erupting in UP after former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s derogatory remarks on the Prophet.

UP: SI subjects Muslim man to 3rd-degree torture in cow-slaughter case

Upon not finding the accused, the SI picked up the accused's distant relative Farad Hakim, 40, a resident of the same village.

Karnataka: Four arrested in Muslim man’s murder case

Dakshina Kannada: Karnataka Police investigating the murder case of Mohammad...

Mathura: Cow vigilantes target Muslim family

Armed mob reached village on suspicion of “beef sale”, fired into the air

Kannauj: Muslim teen dies after being allegedly beaten by school teachers

The ninth standard boy’s family say that he was thrashed after being falsely accused of stealing a watch; autopsy report says he died of tuberculosis

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