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Assam’s Foreigners’ Tribunals bypass constitutional safeguards: Report

Given the possibility of the onset of a nationwide exercise to update the National Register of Citizens, the report, ‘Unmaking Citizens’ by NLSIU & Queen Mary University of London, calls for an urgent, fundamental rethinking of the legal structures governing citizenship in India

Diverse Nation Needs Diverse Battles to Save it, Say Civil Society Activists

Intellectuals, former civil servants, historians, economists, and academicians came together on the 20th anniversary of the formation of Anhad, a civil society group, at Constitution Club in New Delhi on Saturday.

IT Rules 2023: Union Government can now flag content relating to any of its “businesses” as “misleading”

The new form of censorship and govt control over information flow, in the 2021 amended Rules have been earlier challenged  by several digital media portals and their operation stayed by high courts, now stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra’s latest challenge is in the Bombay HC

Custodial torture victims are threatened, says People’s Watch: Tamil Nadu

In the latest conundrum over custodial torture in the...

BUJ deplores attempts to censor online content by Government fact check unit

The Brihanmumbai Union of Journalists deplores the Union Government’s attempt to regulate and censor news by a disingenuous and ambiguously-defined new device: a “fact -check unit” to identify  ‘fake or false or misleading online content’ in respect of “any business of the Central Government.”

Triple Jeopardy! CJP wins legal battle for a Muslim daily wager who, after twice having proven his citizenship, received a third FT notice

The CJP assists another Assam resident who had received, for the third time, an FT notice for being a suspected foreigner and wins! The constitutional battle against arbitrary legal malpractice for the marginalised continues

‘Peaceful Protest a Constitutional Right, perpetual invocation of section 144 concerning”: Former CJI UU Lalit

In 2021, over 365 days, section 144 was invoked in Delhi a staggering 6,100 times, and this in perpetuity, use of essential an emergency power granted to the police authorities is unacceptable, the former CJI said in the capital

Law Ministry data shows steady increase in release of Undertrial prisoners over 4 years

The UTRC was a concept formulated by the Supreme Court in a landmark case of 2015 where it took note of high number of undertrials in prisons

Activist Harsh Mander addresses TISS event online after entry ‘barred’ on March 23

The activist had been invited, authorities pressurised students body to cancel event

2023 Goenka Awards for excellence in journalism, IE editor in chief Rajkamal Jha turns the spotlight on media arrests

Jha delivered this pithy critique of the times we live in while union minister for Information & Broadcasting, Anurag Thakur looked on when he delivered his brief vote of thanks

Actor Chetan’s Second Arrest: First as Warning, Second as Strategy?

UPDATE March 24, 2023: Chetan Kumar gets a bailActor and...

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After 65 lakh names were deleted from the SIR draft roll, the ECI received 74,525 new voter applications—an average of 306 electors per assembly constituency in 13 days, only 0.2% of deletions drew objections with 99.8% unchallenged and zero claims & objection from political parties

Palghar, Maharashtra: One woman voter in six locations, DEO, ERP and BLO common!!

Interestingly, a perusal of the rolls by the CHRI, after AltNews flagged the multiple presence of Sushama Gupta in Palghar, shockingly revealed that the District Election Officer(DEO), Govind Bobde, the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO), Shekhar Ghadge and the Booth Level Officer(BLO),Ms. Pallavi Sawant are named against all these entries in all locations

Vote for Democracy: Statistical, legal and procedural irregularities dot Bihar’s controversial SIR process

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