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Three Years of the Congress Government
A People’s Critique: Expectations and Disillusionments
New Immigration Order 2025: Streamlined rules, old exclusions
MHA’s latest notification streamlines exemptions for select groups, formalises detention centres, and echoes religion-based exclusions first introduced in 2015, raising constitutional and human rights concerns
The Nation needs an Ethanol Republic – A Satire
The author, under the pseudonym of Cyrus Behramji Puranafurniturewala, urges the Minister to consider expanding the list of ethanol blended goodies. These may have significant economic and ecological benefits and could also contribute to making India’s Happiness Index rise up sharply!
1.88 lakh dubious double voters found in Bihar, unusual deletion patterns raise doubts
Bihar SIR: 3.76 lakh dubious duplicate votes found, while 65 lakh voters were deleted under suspicious circumstances, the twin reports expose a flawed electoral revision process with high concentrations of mysterious young deaths, biased gender deletions, and unverified "shifts"
89 lakh complaints of irregularities during Bihar SIR were rejected by ECI: Congress
Congress claims that the ECI rejected 89 lakh complaints filed by its BLAs on Bihar's electoral roll revision, citing suspicious deletions of women and other groups, while the Bihar CEO denies receiving any valid objections in the prescribed format; at the last hearing of the matter in the SC, the Commission has stated that political parties have “no political parties have filed objections to the Bihar SIR draft roll”
In Bihar 3 lakh electors served with doubtful citizen notices by Election Commission
During Bihar's Special Intensive Revision, over 3 lakh voters were flagged for document discrepancies, field checks raised suspicion of foreign origin—Bangladesh, Myanmar, Afghanistan or Nepal, the suspected voters have been served notices and directed to appear before authorities within seven days
Bihar SIR: New elector applications doubled in just 2 days, showing a 96.6% increase
Staggering 96.6% Spike in just 48 Hours: new voter inclusion forms double from 4.33 Lakh to 8.51 Lakh as claims & objections period in Bihar SIR enters day 29, with 4.18 lakh forms flooding in between August 26–28
The Stolen Franchise: Why the Election Commission cannot escape accountability
From duplicate voters to deleted names, opposition parties accuse the ECI of dereliction and collusion; the law makes clear the duty is non-delegable
Beyond the Clock: Deconstructing Telangana’s Labour Law Reform and the Flawed Pursuit of Investment
Enabling long, ten hour work days and minimal payment of overtime compensation, the INC-ruled Telangana government pushes ‘reform’ at the cost of workmen’s rights, and justice
Punjab law against blasphemy unconstitutional, open invitation to oppressive misuse: CCG
In a long and reasoned analysis of the Punjab Prevention of Offences against Holy Scriptures Bill, 2025 (PPOHS Act), recently just referred by the state legislature to a Committee, the group of former bureaucrats has pointed out how it the proposed law is inherently unconstitutional and open to misuse with its loose definitions
Former Judges condemn Amit Shah’s remarks misconstruing Supreme Court’s Salwa Judum Judgment
A prominent group of former Supreme Court and High Court judges, along with senior lawyers, have issued a joint statement condemning Union Home Minister Amit Shah for “misinterpreting” the Supreme Court's 2011 judgment in the Salwa Judum case, which was authored by Justice B Sudershan Reddy, who is the candidate supported by the INDIA bloc parties for the Vice Presidential election.
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Rights
Judgement delivered, paradox prevails: every voter a citizen, but what is the fate of 51.8 million excluded?
The Supreme Court’s May 27, 2026 verdict upholding the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) settles the legal question of constitutional authority but leaves unresolved concerns on absence of due process and independent functioning by the ECI, the arbitrary abuse of process and access: questions of unreasonable and unchecked mass deletions etc.
Rule of Law
Gauhati High Court treats documentary inconsistencies as fatal, upholds Foreigner Tribunal opinion
Ruling underscores how Foreigners Tribunal cases in Assam continue to operate under a reverse burden framework that places the entire obligation of proving citizenship upon the proceedee
Communalism
Between Celebration and Suspicion: How Bakri Eid passed across india in 2026
With police deployments, cattle regulations, housing society disputes and political mobilisation surrounding Eid-ul-Adha, the festival reflected the tensions of contemporary India
Rule of Law
SC greenlights SIR, upholds ECI’s power to revise electoral rolls
The SC has upheld the ECI’s power to conduct SIR expressly stating that the contested process does not violate either election law nor rules; Court however directs that cases of voter exclusion should be provided routes and methods of adjudication
Farm and Forest
“₹4 a Kilo for a Crop That Costs ₹20 to Grow”: Nashik’s onion farmers erupt in protest over deepening price crisis
Farmers in the thousands blocked the Mumbai–Agra Highway in Maharashtra’s onion belt, demanding fair procurement prices, compensation for distress sales and relief from export restrictions; the protests were supported by the Opposition Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) leaders who were also detained
Communal Organisations
Attempts to communalise Mira Road Eid preparations defused by residents and police
Outside fringe mobilisation attempted to turn a long-standing local practice into a communal flashpoint
Environment
Himalayan Courts: Young folds & new cracks in environmental jurisprudence
This third part of a careful and exhaustive legal analysis looks at the environmental jurisprudence of the Himalayan High Courts over the last decade that reveals an unsettling paradox: the vocabulary of ecological protection has never been richer, yet the physical landscape has never been more legally vulnerable. The courts of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh have masterfully preserved the text of environmental law while pronouncing judgements that blunt its teeth.
Rights
Bhodu Sekh Case: Union agrees before Supreme Court to repatriate deported Bengali-speaking individuals pending citizenship inquiry
Union tells Court those sent to Bangladesh will be brought back and their citizenship claims examined in India; clarifies decision is confined to the exceptional facts of the case