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Intrusive and Unconstitutional: CJP’s dissent note on Maharashtra’s Anti-Conversion Law
Through this detailed critique and legal analysis of the hastily enacted Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Bill, 2026 (Maharashtra Dharma Swatantrya Adhiniyam 2026), CJP shows how it is both a serious intrusion on personal liberty, autonomous choice and religious freedoms but also gives a weapon to state agencies like the police to, along with other actors, become vigilantes into personal lives and behaviour
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Police failure to protect JNU from terror attack needs to be independently investigated
Image Courtesy: countercurrents.orgThe terror attack on JNU last night...
CJP’s big win: SC hears petition, orders no children be sent to detention camps in Assam
CJP’s application sought directions from the apex court that drew attention to the Constitutional, legal obligations and prayed, specifically that no child excluded from the NRC is either sent to detention camps nor separated from their parents in Assam.
Express yourself without fear: Faculty to IIT Kanpur students
They wrote in support of students reciting Faiz’s poem “Hum Dekhenge” during anti-CAA protest
BJP and its attempts to get support for a law it passed, without due democratic debate
The BJP is conducting door-to-door campaigns, distributing pamphlets, running a missed-call campaign as it clearly struggles to make its CAA support campaign look bigger than the widespread protests.
Another death in Assam’s detention camp brings the total to 29
The total has now gone up to 29 deaths in Assam’s detention camps raising some serious questions on the condition of inmates and the claims made by government about good facilities.
Bengal: Matuas and Gorkha Janmukti Morcha march against CAA on same day
The nation-wide campaign against CAA refuses to die down as West Bengal continues to erupt in protests every now and then. The sentiment against the law is quite stout as is demonstrated by the protestors.
Adv. Mohammed Shoaib’s petition hearing postponed by Allahabad HC
The Rihai Manch President was arrested during the anti-CAA protests on December 19, 2019 and his whereabouts are said to be unknown
Mumbai comes in to ‘Occupy Gateway’ in solidarity with JNU students
Students across Mumbai called for ‘Chalo Gateway’ to condemn the brutal attack by goons on JNU students last night
Breaking! SC on CJP petition: No children be sent to detention camps in Assam
Image Courtesy: thenation.comThe Supreme Court has directed the Assam...
Streets around Jamia coloured live with protest art
Protestors get creative at the anti-CAA protest at Jamia
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