(The Wire) Perhaps there should be a mechanism for the bench to file condonation of delay applications, where the judges explain their reasons for continuously postponing adjudication of an important case.
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(The Wire) Cases like the one on the Gyanvapi Mosque show how the legal system is being used to promote disorder.
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(The Wire) Recent punitive demolition drives by administrations following orders without official procedure reflect a willingness to dispossess anyone the state labels as ‘anti-social elements’, supporting the regime’s agenda of dehumanisation.
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(The Wire) In 2020, Akhlaq was the victim of what he and his family alleges was a brutal anti-Muslim hate crime. While the FIR on the attack on him has gone 'nowhere', a POCSO case slapped on him has now resulted in an acquital.
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Aisha Siddiqui “In the 60 years we have lived here, we arranged a house for ourselves, water and electricity, they ask us to raze our home to the ground and take the land, where will we go?” asks Pushpa, a resident of Pant Nagar South Indian Camp. In Madanpur-Khadar, a …
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Faridullah Farid The last prophet and messenger of Allah,Hazrat Muhammad (S.A.W.W) said, “The believers in their love, mutual compassion and intimate relationships are like one body; when any section suffers, the whole body responds with alertness and fever. The faithful are like one man: if his eyes suffer, so does …
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Shashi Tharoor The controversy over a court order authorising a video inspection of the Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi is one more reminder that in India debates over history are not confined to the distant past alone. The assumption behind the request is that the mosque was built on a demolished …
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Zenaira Bakhsh In Madhya Pradesh‘s Dindori village, on 5 April, 24-year-old Asif received a phone call from 22-year-old Sahu, she told him that her parents were sending her to a relative’s home to keep her away from Asif and to avoid communal violence. The couple met in a nearby village …
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(The Wire) The panel also found that police have deliberately attempted to suppress the fact that at least three of the deceased were minors – two of them 15 years old.
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Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai “Terrorism-related charges leveled against me are concocted, fabricated and politically motivated” and that “If seeking Azadi (Freedom) is a crime, then I am ready to accept this crime and its consequences,” Yasin Malik said during the trial, reported by Associated Press. I believe that the loss …
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