10-Jun-2025 Gauhati HC: Union government admits Samsul Ali was handed over to BSF, Court grants family visitation rights if not yet deported Petition remains pending; Court directs disclosure of deportation details if carried out, after successive hearings highlight procedural gaps in custody and handover
09-Jun-2025 Holding centres, missing memos, and silent transfers: Gauhati HC hears 5 petitions filed by families of Bengali-speaking Muslim detainees in Assam High Court intervenes, ensures detainee location disclosure, visitation rights, clarity on BSF handover, review of ex parte FT order, and stay on one deportation
06-Jun-2025 India: A deep dive into the legal obligations before “deportation” Deportation drives shrouded in secrecy, defying both domestic and international law
05-Jun-2025 CJP submits supplementary memo to NHRC with survivor and family testimonies on Assam’s expulsions of Bengali-speaking Muslims CJP’s latest submission reveals illegal night detentions and expulsions, amounting to forced abandonment in Bangladeshi borderlands
04-Jun-2025 Gauhati High Court directs Assam Government to disclose whereabouts of two men secretly detained by the police in May Families approached High Court after two detainees vanished without arrest memos; both men had been reporting weekly to police after release from detention centre based on SC orders
03-Jun-2025 CJP Exclusive from Assam: Six Indian women, six torturous nights, and the ordeal of being dubbed “Bangladeshi” by the State What happens when the State slurs Indians as “Bangladeshi”? Six women share their harrowing ordeal of being unlawfully dumped across the border and then taken back - left to find their way back
02-Jun-2025 “Disappeared in the night”: CJP’s memorandum to NHRC on Assam’s secretive detentions and illegal pushbacks CJP’s memorandum to NHRC reveals mass night-time raids, disappearances of Bengali-speaking Muslims, and extra-legal deportations
28-May-2025 CJP Exclusive: Homeland to No Man’s Land! Assam police’s unlawful crackdown on residents still battling for restoration of citizenship rights? Assam police detain 300 without notice; 145 allegedly pushed across Bangladesh border, rights gravely violated
27-May-2025 Supreme Court and the Rofiqul Hoque Judgment: Evolving jurisprudence on documentary evidence in Assam citizenship cases Rofiqul Hoque v. Union of India rejects precedents that allowed minor documentary discrepancies, setting a more exacting standard for proving citizenship in Assam
23-May-2025 Indian again! Matleb Ali’s fight to prove Indian identity ends with CJP’s intervention CJP helps restore Matleb Ali’s Indian citizenship, ending his fight against wrongful suspicion of being a “foreigner”
06-May-2025 “Abuse of law”: SC quashes second FT case against woman already declared Indian, reinforces finality of citizenship verdicts In Tarabhanu Khatoon v. Union of India, the Supreme Court quashed a second Foreigners Tribunal case by terming it as an abuse of process
25-Apr-2025 Restoring Citizenship, Rebuilding Lives: CJP continues its journey in Assam Three lives. Three victories. Thousands still wait for justice
10-Apr-2025 A jumla or a concrete step? Assam CM’s announcement on Koch Rajbongshi cases raises more questions than answers Assam CM's vow to drop FT cases against Koch Rajbongshis sparks debate on identity, execution, and political motives
10-Apr-2025 A Long Road to Justice: CJP helps Alijon Bibi reclaim her citizenship after 2-year legal battle Muslim woman in Assam reclaims Indian citizenship after 20-year battle, with Citizens for Justice and Peace by her side
04-Apr-2025 CJP Triumph: Bipul Karmakar wins citizenship battle after a two-year struggle Despite possessing decades-old documents proving his Indian ancestry, a daily wage labourer in Assam was forced to fight an unjust legal battle
27-Feb-2025 Victory at Last: Micharan Bibi’s citizenship restored after year-long struggle A 73-year-old Assamese woman, wrongfully accused of being a foreigner, secures justice with CJP’s unwavering legal support