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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
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Bombay HC directs Maha gov’t to withdraw pending criminal cases against farmers and social activists
They had been protesting CAA and other government policies; Aurangabad Bench of the HC directs State gov't to file affidavit and submit a report
Now, jail authorities deny GN Saibaba plastic water bottle!
First the NIA had denied late Fr. Stan Swamy a sipper in Taloja jail, now Nagpur Jail authorities deny the 90 percent physically disabled political dissenter a plastic bottle to drink water
Bhima Koregaon case: Bombay HC denies bail to the three accused
The Court rejected a review application seeking bail and factual corrections in the order refusing the accused default bail
Barpeta Sessions Court hauls Assam Police over the coals for “manufactured case” against Jignesh Mevani
Court, while granting bail to the Vadgam MLA in the assault case, noted that the police had abused process of the law
BREAKING: Jignesh Mevani gets bail in assault case in Assam
Barpeta court grants him bail on personal bond of Rs 1,000
Bombay HC dismisses Gautam Navlakha’s plea seeking house arrest
Court directs Superintendent of Taloja Central Jail to ensure medical facilities are provided to the human rights defender and senior journalist
Barpeta court rejects Jignesh Mevani’s bail in assault case
Mevani sentenced to five days police custody, could move bail application before a higher forum tomorrow
BREAKING: Jignesh Mevani re-arrested after getting bail in Assam
Barpeta Police arrest him in unknown case after he was granted bail by the CJP Kokrajhar; Congress Party holds protests and demonstrations in Assam and Gujarat in support of Mevani
Order in Jignesh Mevani’s bail plea expected today
Mevani forwarded to judicial custody; order to be pronounced at 10:30 A.M on Monday
Were search, seizure and arrest procedures violated in the case of Jignesh Mevani?
Opposition Leaders meet Mevani in Kokrajhar, hold demonstrations outside police station where he is being held
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