Legal Rights | CJP

03-Apr-2025

CJP sends objections against Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill, 2024, citing grave threats to civil liberties Broad definitions and unchecked police authority could criminalise dissent, CJP cautions

22-Aug-2024

How authorities skirt legal boundaries between bail and jail While courts uphold 'bail as the rule,' authorities navigate loopholes to sidestep due process

26-Jul-2024

Press Release: Experts warn, Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill a threat to civil liberties Advocates and human rights defenders decry state's move to clamp down on dissent under the guise of urban naxalism threat

14-Feb-2024

CJP EXCLUSIVE: How the Union of India took a giant step towards both NPR & NRC in 2015 without informed consent This step was taken when information contained in the Aadhaar database was linked with the NPR database without informed consent, a CJP investigation with collaboration indicates

04-Jan-2024

2023: India’s Bad Laws, what a weaponised state means for individual freedoms and indigenous rights Will the 30 bills passed without due process in four parliamentary sessions further curtail India's future rights and freedoms

11-Aug-2023

CJP steps in to aid old man and son struggling with an inhumane system A father-son duo, at the brink of despair, meet CJP to tell the harrowing tale of how they got extorted of money for no reason

18-Nov-2022

Bodily autonomy & safe abortion, a right under Article 21 Understanding the evolution of abortion laws, in the national and international context

11-Nov-2022

Has implementation of CAA 2019 already begun? The MHA has delegated to 31 districts powers to grant citizenship as per the CAA

18-Apr-2022

खुद को ज्ञान से सुसज्जित करो न कि त्रिशूल, तलवार या चाकू से हथियार रखने की बाबत क्या कहता है कानून और कैसे दक्षिणपंथी समूह उड़ा रहे उसका (कानून का) मखौल

12-Apr-2022

Arm yourself with knowledge, not tridents, swords or knives Legal definition of weapon, and how right-wing groups find ways to subvert the law

03-Aug-2021

HC order empowers Van Gujjars during Covid-19 The community was finally allowed to enter the meadows of Uttarkashi

30-Mar-2021

Shocking provisions of the Bihar Special Armed Police Bill Here's how the draconian legislation can be misused

29-Dec-2020

The worst from Indian courts in 2020 A month by month look at various court orders adversely shaping rights’ jurisprudence

10-Nov-2020

Where do we stand on free legal aid? On National Legal Services Day we examine what legal aid entails and who benefits from it

13-May-2020

Zamser Ali gets bail in Assam The human rights defender was arrested in a case of defamation

05-Mar-2020

भारतीय कोण आहे ? (Marathi, 64 Pages) एनआरसी-एनपीआर-सीएबी च्या युगात नागरिकत्व

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