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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

Allahabad HC asks UP Govt., AMU admin to file replies regarding police brutality

The HC has given both the parties two weeks to file replies regarding baton charge and tear gas shelling by the police on AMU students

K’taka BJP leader warns anti-CAA protesters of ‘Godhra-like’ situation

CT Ravi also said that the majority community’s patience must not be tested

Journalist detained, communally abused and questioned by UP police

Omar Rashid, a correspondent with The Hindu was picked up with his friend and activist Robin Sharma who was beaten up in custody

A peek into the right-wing’s playbook of hate

How supremacist forces create bogeymen and perpetuate a climate of fear

After Mumbai; Nagpur, Pune and Kurla show the way against CA, NPR-NRC

Nagpur witnessed the largest protest with more than 1 lakh people joining in

They came wearing clothes of harmony: Mumbai’s Dec 19

An eyewitness account of Mumbai's historic 2019 rally at August Kranti Maidan.

Police attacks peaceful protesters including women at Delhi Gate, 32 detained

Image Courtesy: TOIIn a continued brutal crackdown on any...

Adityanath’s UP launched a brutal crackdown on HR defenders, Muslims: #anti-CAA, anti-NRC-NPR

Habeas Corpus filed to trace whereabouts of Mohd Shohaib, S. Darapuri. Even as the DGP confirmed the deaths of six protesters with 14 being injured. As we go to press, however, unconfirmed reports however indicated that as many as 14 persons may have lost their lives

“Govt open to suggestions about CAA”: BJP Official events as police cracks down in Delhi, UP

Keeping the protests in mind, ally LJP writes to BJP to have a re-discussion about the CAA

BJP deletes Amit Shah’s comment about NRC from its Twitter handle

Is this the first step towards backing off from the implementation of the CAA and NRC?

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