South Asia

Six years after his arrest, Umar Khalid remains in custody without trial, while successive bail pleas continue to be contested

From malnutrition and disease to protests and court intervention, Balaghat’s Adivasi villages reveal a crisis that the administration appears to have recognised only after the deaths became impossible to ignore  

As a fellow Bihari and a native of Darbhanga, my heart goes out to the middle class parents who pawn jewellery and mortgage ancestral property to send their ladlas and ladlis to a big city…

The complaints separately identify the speakers, locations, dates and statements, while urging police authorities to investigate the speeches under applicable criminal law and act in accordance with Supreme Court directions concerning hate speech

The Court finds no material linking Chaudhary to the violence that erupted after her arrest, finds the Section 130 BNSS notice prima facie prepared retrospectively, warns that unchecked bureaucratic power could turn Uttar Pradesh into an “Orwellian Dystopia”