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How the Delhi riots case remains stagnant with close to a dozen student leaders incarcerated
A look back at the trajectory of the Delhi Riots case(s), especially the infamous and belatedly registered FIR 59/2020 reveals a litany of procedural and substantive failures, together resulting in the incarceration without bail, for five long years, ten student activists and human rights defenders and one more politician as “accused”
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We are living in constant fear of State: Kapil Sibal
New Delhi: Former Congress leader and senior lawyer Kapil Sibal...
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Jamia cancels Safoora Zargar’s PHD then bans her from entering JMI campus
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HRD Jeganathan allegedly killed for acting against illegal stone quarry, NHRC moved
In the last of several attacks on environmental activists in this part of Tamil Nadu, the environment activist was killed in a road accident that, according to a HRD Forum, was engineered to kill the activist for effectively speaking up against an illegal stone quarry and successfully getting it sealed on Independence Day
Ex-LU VC, Roop Rekha Verma stands as bail surety for journalist, Siddique Kappan
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Urgent Medical Attention and bail for student activist, Atiq-ur-Rehman: Citizens
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The Curious Case of Victor Das: Assam Whistleblower Slapped With Criminal Charges
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Server and mobile phones of top leadership cloned, data taken: Oxfam India on IT raids
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