South Asia

ADR clarifies no false affidavit was filed in Supreme Court, rebuts ECI counsel’s claims with verified voter data, upholds commitment to factual accuracy and non-partisan reporting, and expresses concern over treatment of elector involved following recent court proceedings

The petition seeks protection from forest officials and quashing of the order, arguing that the denial of land titles has criminalised essential community livelihood

In 243 assembly constituencies, analysis shows at least 14.35 lakh suspect duplicate voters and 1.32 crore voters of different families, castes and communities bundled and registered at dubious and fictitious addresses

In a dramatic reversal, a Bangladesh court has ruled that two families — including a pregnant woman from West Bengal’s Birbhum district — who were forcibly deported from Delhi as “illegal Bangladeshis” are in fact Indian citizens, citing their Aadhaar and home addresses

A delay of two years, unreliable hate-crime statistics, and discarded sedition charges, the NCRB 2023 Report offers us marginal data on crime but plentiful data on social control

In a significant ruling on mob liability, the Court acquitted ten men convicted for a 1988 double murder in Bihar, laying down a definitive test to distinguish innocent bystanders from participants in an unlawful assembly

Not only is the proposed law, not referred to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) a harmful attempt to change the fundamental nature of Indian criminal law and ratify this harmful change by a constitutional amendment, it also completely side-lines a long overdue and crucial discussion on the unethical topping of popular governments by horse-trading of MLAs