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One Death Every Few Days, Zero Accountability: Sanitation workers protest at Jantar Mantar

From disputed death figures to continuing caste-based labour, the Safai Karmachari Andolan says India's sewer deaths are not accidents but preventable killings enabled by state inaction

MP High Court bats for prisoners’ right to health, calls for setting up PHCs in prisons

The court has sought a report from the state government in this regard and aims to follow up on how absence of basic medical care in prisons affects human rights of prisoners

Police cracking down on voluntary interfaith unions in Guj, UP

In Gujarat, the relationship between an interfaith couple was forcibly branded as a "love-jihad" case, and in UP a false case was filed against the husband

Production of electronic evidence delayed: Student activists to Delhi Court, 2020 Violence

Devangana, Natasha and Asif have alleged that the Prosecution is delaying in providing evidence that they have relied upon in the chargesheet

Student leaders demand reopening of colleges, deem online education inadequate

Student representatives from JNU, JMI, AMU come together on the call of the SIO to discuss the urgent need to reopen campuses

AIKS debunks GoI’s claims of highest ever rabi MSP hikes

Farmer leaders emphasised the need for a legal guarantee to MSP as per the C2+50 percent formula

Booked for Sedition at LGBTQ rally, two former TISS students get protection from arrest

They were apprehended for allegedly shouting slogans in support of JNU student Sharjeel Imam at an LGBTQ rally at Azad Maidan last year

Delhi Police can’t be trusted to investigate media leak: Asif Tanha’s counsel

In August 2020, Tanha’s alleged confessions made to the police were leaked to the news media which read out his statements where he allegedly confessed that he was involved in conspiracy of Delhi violence of February 2020

Delhi violence: What is happening in case involving the conspiracy FIR under UAPA?

Delays in hearings have occurred after the Delhi Police raised a maintainability issue of the bail plea filed by accused lawyer-activist Ishrat Jahan

Haryana: Lakhs of farmers gherao Karnal Mini Secretariat

Farmer leaders lead farmers on a 3.5 km march after state administration refused to accept farmers demands related to the Karnal lathi-charge

Bombay HC extends Varavara Rao’s time to surrender to custody until Sept 25

The NIA has opposed Rao’s plea seeking extension of his medical bail

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One Death Every Few Days, Zero Accountability: Sanitation workers protest at Jantar Mantar

From disputed death figures to continuing caste-based labour, the Safai Karmachari Andolan says India's sewer deaths are not accidents but preventable killings enabled by state inaction

From Civil Registration to Identity Control: Parliament tightens India’s birth certificate regime without debate

A quiet amendment shifts delayed birth and death registrations from executive officers to judicial magistrates, further hardening India's identity regime while offering little evidence that the new barriers are necessary

‘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

Brij Bhushan Acquittal: The system vs the wrestlers

Three years after their protest shook Indian sport, Vinesh Phogat and other wrestlers prepare for another legal battle over a verdict they reject