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When Suspicion Becomes Deportation: The case of Sahida Fakir and the dangerous criminalisation of Bengali identity
A woman who left home to buy dinner was detained, taken across state lines and allegedly pushed into Bangladesh despite her family producing a birth certificate, voter ID, school records and land documents
Anti-SIR Activists Beware: A mere Residential Certificate does not satisfy SIR requirements
Despite assurances by state governments, the ongoing SIR requirement can only be met by a Permanent Residence Certificate issued by a competent authority
Article 21 May Trump UAPA Bail Bar: Delhi High Court grants bail to Kashmiri rights defender Khurram Parvez after 4½ years in jail
In a significant ruling on liberty, prolonged incarceration, and the limits of anti-terror bail restrictions, the Delhi High Court held that constitutional protections cannot be rendered meaningless by endless pre-trial detention
Who decides who belongs? Detention, deportation and the crisis of due process
From Assam's alleged pushbacks to West Bengal's detention centres, India's expanding deportation drive is reshaping the lives of thousands while testing the limits of citizenship, legality and constitutional protections
No Crime, No Predicate Offence, No ED Case: Delhi High Court quashes proceedings against NewsClick
Holding that the prosecution rested on legally untenable allegations and a misconceived theory of criminality, the Court struck down both the EOW FIR and the ED's money laundering case, calling the investigation a "fishing and roving exercise" against an independent news organisation
The system that keeps failing
CJP Team -
From NEET to CBSE, India's examination infrastructure has collapsed twice in two years. Students are bearing the cost in debt, despair, and lives lost.
UAPA: Delhi HC grants Bail to Kashmiri activist Khurram Parvez after close to 5 years in alleged terror funding case
After four years and seven months of arrest, and a year and six months since he filed his appeal in the Delhi HC in December 2024, the senior human rights defender has been granted bail subject to certain conditions, on June 10, 2026
Sleeping Under an Open Sky on No-Man’s Land: Two Children, Ten Lives, and the Machinery of Exclusion
As deep economic anxieties regarding inflation, agrarian distress, and systemic inequality intensify, governments increasingly turn belonging into a weapon. The figure of the migrant is conveniently manufactured as a scapegoat onto whom broader social frustrations can be projected. In this calculated spectacle, two children sleeping under an open sky are absurdly framed as threats to national security
May-June 2026: Youth Congress nationwide protests challenge education system collapse under Modi government, media gives cold shoulder?
From mid May 2026 until as recently as June 6, Youth Congress units and leadership have been protesting across the nation on the NEET paper leak row the education system had "collapsed" under the BJP-led NDA government; from Bhopal to Bhubhaneshwar, Delhi to Guwahati, Amravati to Ahmedabad, and Jodhpur to Ranchi. These protests have resonated across the country, available on social media but not commercial or mainstream. On June 6, Saturday, when a huge concentration of media attention was on the “Cockroach” gathering at Jantar Mantar, the IYC President led thousands in a protest in Haryana
Demolitions of homes of Gujjar Bakerwals in Jammu unconstitutional & violation of FRA 2006: AIUFWP
The All India Union of Forest Working People (AIUFWP) along with the Delhi Solidarity Group (DSG) and Wullar Bachav Front have strongly condemned the reported brutal attack, demolition of the houses, harassment, and attempts to evict members of the Gujjar Bakerwal community in Jammu region a few days ago.
Rethinking the ‘Rajput State’: The Neemuchana & Tiladi agrarian movements
The legacy of colonial historiography and further amplified by Hindutva rhetoric has trapped our historical consciousness in the world of kings and dynasties, erasing public memory of our modern agrarian and working-class struggles.
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