05-Feb-2024 Team CJP meets 78-year-old who is battling in courts to regain his citizenship CJP’s hands-on approach in Assam continues as the team perseveres in reaching out to the marginalised
16-Jan-2024 Foreigners’ Tribunal arbitrary orders: Should the State Government intervene? The Gauhati High Court noted discrepancies in orders of the Foreigners’ Tribunal, has directed reviews by state government
26-Oct-2022 CJP helps another hapless Muslim individual in securing bail: Gauhati HC CJP’s legal aid and advocacy protected him from being sent to Assam’s dreaded detention camps
25-Oct-2022 Assam: Gauhati HC orders eviction, Goalpara Lawyers Association demand alternative housing Flood Victims living on forest Lands to be evicted within three months, memorandum filed with the Commissioner of Environment and Forest Department of Assam
10-May-2022 Res Judicata principle applicable to FT decisions: Gauhati HC Once declared citizen, a person cannot be declared foreigner
30-Mar-2022 Free legal aid must mean quality service: SC Justice UU Lalit The Executive Chairman of NLSA stresses on need to induct talented and committed persons
29-Mar-2022 CJP’s Assam Legal Aid Petition: Gauhati HC grants Assam and UoI final chance to file affidavits CJP had moved the HC over inadequate legal aid for NRC excluded persons
07-Feb-2022 CJP’s Assam Legal Aid Petition: ASLSA indicates shortage of funds for providing legal aid to those excluded from NRC Previously, the Gauhati HC had emphasised upon importance of funding for legal aid
03-Jan-2022 CJP strengthens commitment to our fellow Indians in Assam in 2021 More people released from detention centres, important legal interventions made
10-Dec-2021 Assam police firing: State responds to victim family’s plea, says acted in self defence CJP assisted in filing the petition before Gauhati High Court
09-Dec-2021 CJP helps two brothers get released from Assam Detention Centre Mahiruddin and Mainuddin released after four months of hard work
23-Nov-2021 CJP’s Assam Legal Aid Petition: Gauhati HC asks Centre and State to indicate stand on funding Court observed proper funding could help provide competent legal aid
18-Nov-2021 Gauhati HC extends interim protection to Gulbhanu Begum FT declared her a foreigner because authorities had recorded her father’s name incorrectly
05-Nov-2021 Rehabilitation for evicted families only if name in NRC: Assam gov’t to Gauhati HC State claims 1,000 bhigas of land set aside for rehabilitation, but it is not for “encroachers”
03-Nov-2021 Assam firing : CJP moves HC for justice We have filed two separate writ petitions in the Gauhati High Court