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Six Days Behind Bars After Bail: Patna High Court orders ₹2 lakh relief, flags state-wide pattern of illegal detention

Court rejects “festival holiday” defence, directs IG Prisons to fix systemic lapses and ensure jail superintendents comply with court orders

All is not well for the Mid-Day Meal Scheme in India

The beginning of the second week of the Parliament’s winter session witnessed questions regarding the government’s Mid-Day Meal Scheme (MDMS), the responses to which can be regarded as a report card on MDMS.

Only 8 states use the Institutional Support for Tribal Produce scheme

In what appears to be a double body blow to rights of indigenous people and forest dwelling communities, it appears that not only has the government failed to implement the Forest Rights Act, it has also been unsuccessful when it comes to implementing provisions of the Institutional Support for Tribal Produce scheme.

They told me three days, but I was released after three months: RTI activist Raja Bhat

He was unlawfully detained in the wake of the government’s decision to abrogate Article 370

Unnao accident witness claims murder bid on self

Awadhesh Singh says he was attacked by a truck the same way that the Unnao rape case survivor was attacked in July this year

Assam’s Detention Camps are akin to Germany’s Concentration Camps: Thinkers

A cross-section of thinkers and literary personalities came out against Assam’s Detention camps, demanded their closure and halt to construction of the proposed new one at Goalpara stating that 823 of the 938 persons languishing without fair trial are Assamese citizens

Assam migrant labourer forced to rot in detention camp for going to Delhi in search of a job!

Migrant labourer declared ‘foreigner’ for going to Delhi in search of a job!

India ranks first in child deaths under 5 years of age: UNICEF report

Despite multiple health schemes running in parallel and many of these focusing on primary health care of children, India is falling behind; it’s time to examine lacunae in implementation

Suspected Bangladeshi sent to Bengal by Karnataka police without trial clueless about their future

Karnataka police picked up 61 people including 15 minors and 25, mostly rag pickers on suspicion of them being Bangladeshi. Without producing them to the court, they have sent them to West Bengal to hand them over to the border security forces, who in turn will hand to the Border Guards of Bangladesh. However of 61 individuals arrested, 59 have been sent to Bengal, while 2 have been kept back in Karnataka only

Seven Detainees of Bongaigaon District released from Goalpara Detention camp

GUWAHATI: A total of seven detainees from Bongaigaon District...

SHRC- New ray of light for victims of police brutality?

India has recently seen a spur in peaceful protests being subjected to use of excessive force by the police and misusing their power and authority. It is being seen as violation of human rights and our Human Rights Commissions are meting out just orders against such cases of police brutality and if the trend goes on, it might one day serve as a deterrent against errant police officials.

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Six Days Behind Bars After Bail: Patna High Court orders ₹2 lakh relief, flags state-wide pattern of illegal detention

Court rejects “festival holiday” defence, directs IG Prisons to fix systemic lapses and ensure jail superintendents comply with court orders

The Politics of Processions: How the Sanatan Ekta Padyatra amplified hate speech in plain sight

As the Sanatan Ekta Padyatra traversed 422 village panchayats across three states, it carried not merely religious symbolism but explicit political messaging. Calls for a Hindu Rashtra, vilification of Muslim communities, and assertions of majoritarian dominance raise serious questions under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita’s provisions on promoting enmity, inciting violence, and disturbing public tranquillity. Yet, as the aftermath shows, ranging from protests in Datia to a clash in Vrindavan, the legal system’s response has been fragmented and cautious. This report interrogates that legal vacuum, situating the padyatra within established precedents of hate-speech jurisprudence and the enduring gap between statutory safeguards and ground-level enforcement.

A Decade after Bisada: Why Uttar Pradesh’s attempt to drop the Akhlaq lynching case defies law and constitution

Ten years after the Dadri lynching shocked India and forced a national reckoning on hate violence, the Uttar Pradesh government has moved to withdraw prosecution against the accused — raising critical questions of law, constitutional duty, and deliberate impunity

Bihar Elections: Trains for votes? The unanswered mystery of the ‘phantom’ specials from Haryana to Bihar

Explosive RTI documents reveal unannounced special trains running from Haryana to Bihar mere days before polling, serious allegations of state-sponsored voter smuggling, as the dust settles on the Bihar 2025 verdict, video evidence of ‘free tickets’ compounds the mystery, leaving questions over the violation of the Model Code of Conduct, the definition of "Corrupt Practice" under the RP Act, and the deafening silence of the Election Commission dangerously unanswered

Washed Away by Floods, Targeted by the State: Hamela Khatun’s fight for citizenship

CJP’s team helped Hamela piece together a lifetime of evidence — from 1950s land documents to contemporary electoral rolls — to establish beyond doubt that she is, and always has been, an Indian citizen

The Orchestrated Extremism: An analysis of communal hate speech in India’s election cycle (2024–2025)

This piece uncovers the rise of digital warfare—from caste-coded AI videos in Bihar to calls for the economic segregation of vendors—detailing the calculated strategy to fracture society and weaponise Dalits against Muslims to divert attention from joblessness and poverty

Communal Profiling at Malabar Hill, CJP’s files complaint with Maharashtra Police and NCM

The complaint to Maharashtra Police and the NCM details how a former BJYM office-bearer allegedly conducted unauthorised identity checks and singled out vendors on religious grounds

Massive duplicate entries in Mumbai voter rolls trigger political uproar; opposition flags “fraudulent patterns” and pressures SEC for action

With more than 10.6% of Mumbai’s electorate appearing multiple times in the SEC’s draft rolls—some duplicated over a hundred times—the Opposition alleges targeted tampering in their strongholds, raises alarm over rising “elected unopposed” patterns, and demands urgent corrective action and extended scrutiny