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‘Deportation Cannot Begin without Nationality Verification’: Union’s Rajubala affidavit clarifies legal limits on executive power

In an affidavit filed in the Rajubala Das case, the Union reaffirms that deportation requires nationality verification, travel documents and acceptance by the receiving State, while setting out the legal framework governing detention pending deportation

Farewells, tears, hugs and promises to stay in touch, farmers head homewards

Tents are being folded up, stages dismantled; police may soon remove barricades from farmers’ protest sites

Provide medical facilities, grant parole: Committee for the Defence and Release of Dr. G N Saibaba

The Committee has reiterated its demand to uphold the Rights of Prisoners and demanded his immediate release

Two brothers released from Assam Detention Centre with CJP’s help

CJP worked for four months to get Mahiruddin and Mainuddin released from the Tezpur Detention Centre

Jai Kisan! Farmers hope to reap the fruits of the struggles they have undergone

Lakhs of farmers call off the over year-long protests as government sends a formal letter agreeing to their demands; farmers' leaders will hold a review meet on January 15

Sudha Bharadwaj released from jail

Released after being granted bail by Bombay High Court, terms of bail finalized on December 8

An attack on one scholar is an attack on all: Scholars at Risk

Free to Think 2021, a report released by Scholars at Risk, has an exhaustive chapter on India’s loss of academic freedoms under the current political regime

SKM says govt’s draft agreeable, but “this is not the end”

All SKM unions approve of latest government offer, but wait for official letterhead

Segregated burial grounds, a violation of the Constitution: Madras High Court

The court observed that allowing a separate burial ground based on caste promotes segregation, that is the opposite of the idea of Equality envisaged by the Constitution

Lakhimpur Kheri killings: Kashyap family’s plea for separate FIR against MoS denied

Court says relevant FIR regarding the case already filed by local police officials

Willing to end struggle but no faith in GoI: SKM

After a year of nationwide mobilisation, sources say the farmers struggle may conclude soon on a victorious note

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