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Bihar: Not just Delhi, Patna, Siwan too saw brute police violence against demonstrating students: PUCL
A fact-finding report of the Bihar police brutality against students who were demonstrating peacefully in Patna, Siwan and Sitamarhi reveals that severe beating by lathis, including aiming blows at the private part of women students was a key and shocking feature of the (misconduct) of the Bihar police
Migrant labour Bengali couple wrongfully detained as ‘Bangladeshi’ in Karnataka
News of the detention of a migrant labour couple, Palash Adhikary & Shukla Adhikary with their one and a half year old child, from the Tele village of Jourgram panchayat under Jamalpur Police station in East Burdwan, West Bengal for being wrongfully dubbed Bangladeshi has let loose a storm of protest
‘Won’t Give an Inch to Dalmia Cement’, over 5,000 Adivasis in Odisha Protest ‘Illegal’ Land Acquisition
After marching 100 km to the district collector's office, the protesting members of the Adivasi community were forced to spend the night out in the cold before their demands were heard by the administration reports Orissa TV.
Gauhati HC grants bail to Muslim individual declared foreigner in Assam
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FT had declared him Foreigner despite having proper documents that were proof of citizenship
2022 Forest Conservation Rules snatch away rights of Adivasi Gram Sabhas
The Modi govt’s FCA 2022, diverge from India’s settled policy of giving primacy to the rights of India’s Adivasis and Forest Dwellers
Assam: Gauhati HC orders eviction of “encroachers” from protected reserved forests
Landless People of Goalpara District demand justice and facilitation of relocation
Lawyers must break the silence of complicity, question flaws of executive overreach: Kapil Sibal
In his speech at private event to commemorate five decades in the profession, senior counsel, Kapil Sibal urged advocates to encourage social mobilisation and ensure the delivery of unbiased justice
Life sentence of murder convict upheld by Madras High Court, victim class 9 girl who rebuffed his advances
The Court also said in its judgment that youngsters today, insecure and traumatised, are short on emotional quotient and are prone to taking extreme steps at the slightest of disturbance or rejection.
NHRC petitioned over alleged intimidation of Adivasi villagers, activists, lawyers in Chhattisgarh
Alleged Illegal detention, assault and intimidation of HRDs by Chhattisgarh police and paramilitary personnel in the Rowghatt hills, Chhattisgarh
One more journalist hit by arrest warrant due to Adani’s defamation move
Criminal defamation is the tool, Gujarat state the site of the Adani group’s multiple assault on any critical journalistic writing
Put anti tribal forest rules on hold, NSCST panel tells MoEF
In a comprehensive rejection of attempts to disrobe Adivasis of their land and livelihood rights, the panel’s communication has been reported by Times of India
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