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After years of delay, justice at last for Sukumar Baishya as Foreigners’ Tribunal declares him an Indian citizen
Tribunal accepts documentary evidence citing father’s 1956 registration and pre-1971 records; CJP’s legal team helps secure justice after years of uncertainty
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Etah lawyer assault: Allahabad HC takes suo moto cognisance
The court may have been prompted by letters written by the High Court’s Bar Association and the Bar Council of India seeking action
A 2020 Report of Victims of Incarceration: Student activists harassed, arrested
Remember how we witnessed a complete crackdown by the Delhi police on students protesting the unconstitutional CAA 2019 and proposed all India NRC and NPR? A SabrangIndia series tracks how these dynamic students have thereafter been charged with serious offences under counter-terror legislation on ground of ‘causing’ the Delhi violence of 2020
Anti CAA protesters get bail: Mumbai
Twenty-nine activists, lawyers, students, artists, academicins and civilians appeared...
A 2020 Report of Victims of apathy: People of Assam
How this year, the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdown and floods, further added to the misery caused by the citizenship crisis, and impacted the lives of ‘others’
Mehmood Pracha’s office raid a “pressure tactic” by Police: Delhi Riot victims
Victims of Delhi violence came out in solidarity with the lawyer, revealing attempts to harass and intimidate them by the Delhi police
UP’s Love Jihad law completes one month, 35 incarcerated
Since its promulgation, more than one arrest per day has been recorded taking the tally to around 35
UP college students booked for Sedition for demanding union elections
Principal N D Pandey, accused them of chanting "indecent and anti-national slogans like Le ke rahenge azadi"
Adv Mehmood Pracha’s Office raid: Court summons IO for video footage
Mehmood Pracha moved the Patiala House Court for preservation of the video footage taken during the raid and for continuous monitoring
Why did Nagpur Central Jail refuse to accept essentials sent for Professor Saibaba?
Fed up with attitude of jail staff, lawyer Aakash Sarode pens a bare-all letter, puts jail authorities on notice to fulfill their legal responsibility to look after the wheelchair bound, diabled professor
Love Jihad: Madhya Pradesh approves draft Bill
The new draft Bill provides for jail term up to five years and a fine of Rs 25,000 for forceful conversions and mandates maintenance of women and children from such marriages
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PUCL slams recently passed Rajasthan anti-conversion bill as “draconian and unconstitutional”
Civil liberties body says bill criminalises faith, dialogue, and choice; demands Governor/President intervention
Rights
From Tribunals to DCs, 10 Days to Prove Citizenship: Assam’s radical shift in “foreigner” expulsions
Cabinet move under the 1950 Act empowers District Commissioners to expel alleged foreigners in 10 days, raising constitutional concerns over due process and separation of powers
India
Memories of ‘Nine Eleven’ today
On a day remembered and vilified, the author recalls moments of despair, brute violence and historical significance. All on the ninth of September….
Health
Labour rights, health of workers hit in the name of “reform”: PUCL Maharashtra
A detailed statement by the Maharashtra unit of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has, with reasoned arguments, critiqued the recent decision of the MahaYuti government in Maharashtra to curtail labour rights in the name of “reform”; Maharashtra government’s decision is in line with other states like Telangana, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tripura (two of these are Congress ruled states) which have also enacted similar legislations.
Politics
Protests across Maharashtra denounce the Public Security Act as unconstitutional and anti-democratic
Opposition, rights groups, and people’s movements unite to call it an “anti-people, anti-democratic law”
Rule of Law
Reaffirming Open Justice: The Supreme Court on speech and contempt
In the case of Wikimedia v. ANI Media Private Limited & Ors. the apex court reaffirmed free speech and restrained a Delhi High Court order that was held, on examination to be disproportionate