Email: sabrangind@gmail.com
From Assam’s Soil to Detention and Back: The tragic death of Amzad Ali
Locked up in Matia detention camp despite generations-long roots in Assam, 49-year-old Amzad Ali dies of cancer as authorities ignore medical appeals; family finally lays him to rest in his native village
CJP Team -
Is UP’s new Ordinance on recovery of damages an example of abuse of power?
UP govt is not the first one to have taken the ordinance route to create a law to suit its agenda, especially when such ordinance will immediately validate its ‘formerly’ unlawful acts.
Lawyer booked for sedition, 28 booked under Gangsters Act
The UP government has recently come under fire for using strong-arm measures against anti-CAA protesters
Assam groups demand Akhil Gogoi’s release after reports of ill health and NIA negligence
Post his arrest, Gogoi has been reportedly suffering from medical ailments but not been getting adequate treatment by the NIA
‘Naming & shaming’ instead of rule of law: UP recovery of damage to public & private property ordinance, 2020
The Ordinance is out. On Sunday, March 15, the Uttar Pradesh recovery of damage to public and private property ordinance 2020 was cleared in the cabinet meeting chaired by UP CM Adityanath in Lucknow on Friday. The ordinance ignores tested jurisprudence and caution from constitutional courts that point to the absence of due process in such a “Name and Shame” policy. Intrinsic to this understanding is the arbitrary, unchecked power such an ordinance gives wings of the state, tilting power away from the people into the hands of the state, its police, without any checks and balances
Stop blaming women and peaceful protesters for Delhi violence: Women’s groups
Women intellectuals and civil society members come together to condemn CAA-NPR-NRC
I refuse, I reject and I resist! (a poem by Abhay Xaxa)
A day after the shocking news of the death of research scholar and activist, Abhay Xaxa, we bring you his poem
Free speech must for students, IITB alumni to director
Two alumnus of the prestigious, Powai based IIT, Bombay, have in an open letter to the Institute's director urged that the robust traditions of free speech and dissent be upheld on campus
Walk the Talk Mr HM, strike down rule that allows Indians to be declared ‘doubtful citizens’
All India Campaigns against CAA-NPR-NRC have responded to home minister, Amit Shah’s ‘assurances’ on NPR with clear-cut demands that Rules 3 (5), 4(3), 4(4) of the 2003 Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules be struck down
J&K Government revokes Farooq Abdullah’s detention order
Former Chief Minister to be released after seven months in detention
Father fought for freedom alongside Chandrashekhar Azad, daughter served ‘foreigner’ notice in Assam?
CJP steps in to help septuagenarian forced to defend citizenship despite her illustrious legacy
Trending
Related VIDEOS
ALL STORIES
ALL STORIES
Minorities
After 22 years under suspicion, Assam’s Kashem Ali declared Indian by Foreigners Tribunal
With 18 years passing between the registration of the case and service of notice, and nearly a year spent fighting to prove his citizenship, Kashem Ali finally wins legal relief with CJP’s assistance
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
From treating Adivasi communities to being branded an instigator: Odisha jails doctor Randall Sequeira
Arrested in a case in which his name did not figure in the original FIR, Dr Randall Sequeira faces serious criminal charges amid an intensifying crackdown on Adivasi communities resisting bauxite mining in Odisha
Rights
Nearly two decades without elections, Jamia students’ agitation forces administration to set deadline for union revival
The university has agreed to implement the students’ union constitution by May 15, 2027, and conduct elections under Lyngdoh Committee guidelines
India
Arunachal’s anti-dam protests intensify as arrests, militarisation and threats to press freedom fail to silence resistance
Communities resisting the proposed 11,200 MW project fear the loss of ancestral land, livelihoods and cultural heritage, with activists detained under the APUAPA
India
Food Security during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Need for a shift from food security to nutrition justice.
In Karnataka, during the pandemic and lockdown, mid-day meals in government schools and anganwadis under the National Food Security Act (2013) [1], shut down indefinitely [2,3] amidst growing concerns about how this would affect vulnerable communities. In spite of demands, the state government has not yet undertaken a detailed post pandemic and lockdown survey to identify the immediate and long-term interventions to address and prevent malnutrition. Several visits have been made by civil society organisations, students, nutritionists and academics to different districts of Karnataka, during and after the Covid-19 pandemic and this commentary gives a broad overview of the observations made. There is a need for an in-depth quantitative and qualitative study.
India
Delhi SIR: Public audit finds 416 of 1,236 deleted voters still at their registered addresses
A four-day door-to-door audit in Trilokpuri found voters marked absent, shifted or dead who were still living at their registered addresses, with 47.57 lakh names missing from Delhi’s draft roll, affected voters have until October 30 to file claims
India
SIR’s elusive illegal immigrants: Bogey Busted but will the injustices heaped be corrected?
Barely 771 “foreign nationals” identified in Karnataka and a miniscule 1,600 in six other Indian states; yet the hysterical bogey of the “ghuspetiya” (illegal immigrant) has been used to render 130 million plus Indian without the right to vote?
Rule of Law
2020 Delhi Riots: Delhi High Court upholds seven-year sentence for five men in 22-year old Muslim migrant worker’s death
The Court holds that failure to identify who inflicted the fatal injuries does not absolve the accused under Section 149 IPC, relying on evidence of their participation in an armed mob that assaulted the victim, Monish