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Scrap SIR, Restore Electoral Integrity: A national call to defend the right to vote
Public assembly demands the scrapping of SIR, accountability of the Election Commission and urgent safeguards against wrongful exclusion from electoral rolls
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Touching posterior of a minor amounts to sexual assault: Mumbai POCSO court
The court had to consider whether a girl’s buttocks is her private body part and touching it would amount to sexual assault
Is there Social Justice in the Digital Economy?
Work from home has become the new normal, but this is a luxury only for those who have computes, smartphones and internet access
MSP at C2+50%, farmers’ need of the hour: AIKS
Farmers organisation talks about the need for Indian farmers to introduce legal provisions for Minimum Support Price in India.
Bar and Bench cannot watch silently: Women lawyers on Disha Ravi’s arrest
The Delhi HC Women Lawyers forum has sought the apex court’s intervention into the misuse of the colonial era law of sedition that does not find place in many democracies
K’taka: Civil society, trade union leaders seek action against illegal arrest of Disha Ravi
The delegation met with the state’s Home Minister seeking action against Delhi Police for arresting Disha illegally without following procedures
TN govt drops cases against anti-CAA protestors, lockdown violators
The CM Edappadi K Palaniswami said that except cases linked to violence, about 10 lakh cases of less serious offences were being dropped!
Right to dissent is a hallmark of democracy: Justice Deepak Gupta
Justice (retd.) Deepak Gupta, in a panel discussion opined that India cannot progress if dissent is stifled
Disha Ravi sent to three days judicial custody by Delhi Court
The young climate activist’s 5-day police custody ended today, on February 19
Varanasi court issues notice to Kunal Kamra for allegedly insulting the National Flag
The petitioner has moved sessions court against the Magistrate’s order that had dismissed the FIR complaint against Kamra
Why free speech supporters should consider Disha Ravi’s arrest a cause for concern
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