05-Aug-2025 India grants re-entry to elderly woman expelled to Pakistan despite decades-long residency After months of legal battle and “peculiar circumstances,” Rakshanda Rashid can reunite with her husband and children in Jammu
30-Jul-2025 K’taka HC: Ruling on state’s ‘anti-conversion’ law, lays down precedent against potential weaponisation by third-party vigilantes Ruling that a complaint cannot be filed by an unrelated third party, the Karnataka High Court has significantly read down section 4 of the state law
30-Jul-2025 Explainer: Citizens for Justice and Peace v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors lawandotherthings.com
29-Jul-2025 Banasha Bibi, Bengali-speaking Muslim woman with disability, declared Indian in CJP-Led Legal Win Accused as a foreigner in a 2002 case but served notice only in 2022, Banasha Bibi is vindicated after CJP exposes false investigation and proves lifelong Indian identity
28-Jul-2025 Assam’s Citizenship Crisis: How Foreigners Tribunals construct an architecture of exclusion and rights violations ‘Unmaking Citizens’ urges urgent rethink of India’s citizenship laws ahead of possible NRC update
28-Jul-2025 Mob-Led Witch Hunt: Two Catholic nuns arrested in Chhattisgarh despite consent documents and no evidence of conversion Bajrang Dal's vigilante interference leads to arrest of Catholic nuns; Christian leaders call it a miscarriage of justice
25-Jul-2025 “She Can’t Just Disappear”: Gauhati High Court told as state fails to produce handover certificate in Doyjan Bibi “pushback” case State admits cross-border pushback, but with no handover or Bangladesh records, petitioner calls it not deportation — but disappearance
25-Jul-2025 गुवाहाटी हाई कोर्ट ने केंद्र से मांगा निर्वासन आदेश, जमानत पर रह रहे लोगों की दोबारा हिरासत पर उठे गंभीर सवाल याचिकाकर्ताओं अब्दुल शेख और मजीबुर रहमान के वकील ने तर्क दिया कि उनकी दोबारा हिरासत, सुप्रीम कोर्ट द्वारा दी गई जमानत का उल्लंघन है। अदालत ने राज्य सरकार को निर्देश दिया कि वह गृह मंत्रालय की मई 2025 की निर्वासन अधिसूचना को रिकॉर्ड पर प्रस्तुत करे, ताकि कानूनी औचित्य की जांच की जा सके।
23-Jul-2025 Gauhati High Court seeks Centre’s May 2025 deportation notification as legality of re-detention of Abdul Shiekh and Majibur Rehman is scrutinised Counsel for petitioners’ terms re-detention of SC bail beneficiaries “illegal”, says government bypassing Supreme Court orders; Court demands MHA notification to justify process
22-Jul-2025 “Custodial Torture that shocks the Conscience”: Supreme Court orders CBI probe, arrests, and ₹50 Lakh compensation for custodial torture of J&K constable SC slams Kupwara JIC for torturing a serving constable—calling it one of the gravest violations of human dignity under Article 21
21-Jul-2025 Free Speech in the Digital Age: A doctrinal analysis of four recent Supreme Court cases on Article 19(1) (a) In a series of rulings, the Apex Court emphasises that the right to free speech must co-exist with dignity, secularism, and the collective conscience of a diverse society; this legal resource examines this trend where the apex court is increasingly foregrounding Article 21 (right to dignity) as a counterweight to Article 19(1) (a), especially in contexts where speech targets marginalised groups
18-Jul-2025 Confusion over identity clouds ‘pushback case’ of Doyjan Bibi, Gauhati High Court directs state to verify true identity and whereabouts Court questions State after it cites BSF communication claiming Doyjan Bibi, wife of "Abdul Munnaf", was deported—while plea concerns Doyjan Bibi, wife of Abdul Rejjak
17-Jul-2025 A Targeted Campaign: The orchestrated crackdown on Bengali Migrants and the rising pushback from courts, Bengal government, and civil society Detained without orders. Deported without trials. As state crackdowns intensify, India’s Bengali-speaking migrants find themselves stripped of rights, identity, and even citizenship
16-Jul-2025 Gauhati HC closes writ petition in Bakkar Ali case after his detained father, Samsul Ali, was recovered and not rearrested Court notes production before SP (Border) was attempted; says no deportation threat survives at present but grants liberty to petitioner to return if State takes further action
15-Jul-2025 Truth on Trial: Why Karnataka’s Misinformation and Fake News (Prohibition) Bill, 2025 threatens free speech, due process, and democracy Framed as a fight against fake news, Karnataka’s Bill grants sweeping powers to silence dissent, satire, and critique
15-Jul-2025 She Set Herself on Fire to Be Heard: Odisha student’s death is a wake-up call From ignored pleas to public self-immolation, the death of a 20-year-old reveals systemic rot