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Caste Atrocity in 2025: Normalisation, neglect and the crisis of accountability

In 2025, between January and June alone, CJP recorded 113 incidents of caste atrocities on Dalit individuals across different states in India worst offending states were Uttar Pradesh (34 cases), Madhya Pradesh (15), and Tamil Nadu (8) while 962 reported land conflicts affect tribal populaces; of these 116 conflicts are in the Conservatory and Forestry sector, with 459,735 people currently affected.

Citizens can proactively help Delhi riot victims and survivors get justice

Delhi Citizens Committee on the Delhi Riots of February 2020: Context, Events and Aftermath, invites confidential submission of information

Bihar: 1 killed, several injured in firing during Durga procession in Munger

Right Wing social media have begun comparing this tragic incident with the attacks on 'sadhus' in Palghar, and have called for the resignation of Munger SP Lipi Singh

Maharashtra: Four tribal children hacked to death!

Their parents, who were attending a funeral at Madhya Pradesh,   rushed back to their village on hearing news that their four minor children had been killed in their home.

Serious inaccuracy in police account of those killed in Delhi violence: Brinda Karat

The CPI (M) Polit Bureau Member alerts Police Commissioner SN Srivastava about inaccuracies

157 attacks on christians in 3rd quarter of 2020: Persecution Relief

The crimes to include murders, crimes against women, church attacks, and unjust arrests

Madhya Pradesh: Tempo-driver brutally mob-lynched in full public view!

A tempo driver from Sehore was brutally assaulted by a gang of youths in Jabalpur while passers-by filmed the whole incident, but did nothing to stop the violence.

Delhi violence: State Home Dept scanner on video clip of woman ‘pelting stones’

SabrangIndia had flagged Ragni Tiwari’s communally inflammatory videos in February; her social media pages were full of incendiary videos and rants against Muslims

Conversions and anti-Christian violence in India

Satyapal Singh’s statements against Graham Staines had been countered in Parliament

If police are our friends, why are they beating us: University students

Students from AMU, JNU and JMI respond to the sweeping statements made by university administration officials during a webinar on university discipline.

Delhi Police ‘conspirators list’ is to save actual perpetrators of violence, suppress all dissent: Gauhar Raza

Raza is among the latest names added to the long scarf-like list of ‘conspirators’, that is being woven by the police

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Harassment by Delhi Police, blatant extortion & human rights’ violation in process of identification of “illegal Bangladeshi immigrants”: Brinda Karat to HM Amit Shah

Brinda Karat, former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-CPIM), has in a letter to the union home minister, Amit Shah highlighted the blatant violation of human rights, harassment and extortion, in the ongoing process of "identification of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants" by the Delhi police and other agencies.

Bengali Migrant Workers Detained in Odisha: Calcutta High Court demands answers, seeks coordination between states

Court poses six pointed questions on detention of Sainur Islam and demands answers from Odisha over detention of youth during ‘identification drive’; Court directs West Bengal to appoint nodal officer

Thane School Horror: Principal, attendant arrested for forcing girls to strip in menstruation check, case registered under POCSO

Girls as young as 10 were allegedly stripped and subjected to invasive checks by school staff in Thane’s Shahapur after bloodstains were found in a washroom, prompting arrests, protests, and charges under POCSO and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita

Bihar:  SC signals that ECI should consider Aadhaar, EPIC (Voter ID card) & Ration card for electoral roll revision 

Hearing a batch of petitions challenging the sudden “special intensive revision” being conducted in Bihar by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the Supreme Court (SC) pressed ECI to include Aadhaar, Voter ID Card, and Ration cards in Bihar's electoral roll revision process, since the only concern for the constitutional body was establishing accurate identity not citizenship

Mumbai’s Second Lifeline in ICU: Mumbaikars respond to call of “Save BEST”

By deliberately running Mumbai’s unique and stellar public transport system to ‘die’, the BMC backed by a land-grabbing state government is set to make transport even more unafordable for working Mumbaikars

Dissent Note: Maharashtra Special Public Safety Bill, 2024

Sweeping powers, vague definitions, and silencing of dissent entrenched in law; deliberative process exposed as political theatre

One of Urdu’s Greatest Scholars, C.M. Naim, Passes Away

The UP-born professor was said to be among the finest and authoritative voices on Urdu.