The victim told police he was taken by four men from near a local restaurant and assaulted by at least six individuals, who also allegedly used casteist slurs. Police in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi district have arrested three men after a video surfaced showing a Dalit youth being assaulted, threatened and humiliated by a group earlier...
A total of 10,440 people were arrested under the anti-terrorism law, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, between 2019 and 2023, but only 335 were convicted, the Union government told Parliament on Monday. Data submitted to the Lok Sabha by Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai showed Jammu and Kashmir accounted for the highest...
Babu, arrested in July 2020 under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, had spent over five years in prison. The Bombay High Court on Thursday granted bail to former Delhi University professor and Bhima Koregaon accused Hany Babu, marking a significant development in the long-running case. Babu, arrested in July 2020 under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention)...
BJP leaders criticised the previous classification, alleging that religious groups were added to the OBC list for political reasons, while “depriving genuinely backward Hindu communities” of their share. India’s National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) has recommended that the Union government remove 35 communities, most of them Muslim, from West Bengal’s central Other Backward Classes...
Top court overturns Calcutta HC ruling, saying the law entitles divorced Muslim women to reclaim all marital gifts and property given to the groom The Supreme Court of India has ruled that gifts given by a bride’s parents to a Muslim groom at the time of marriage must be returned to the woman if the...
Six men were arrested in September 2016 in West Bengal and Assam and were found with explosives, components for improvised explosive devices, documents, laptops and currency A Kolkata court on Wednesday sentenced five alleged members of the banned militant group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to life in prison over a 2016 plot to carry out bomb...
The November 28 directive had mandated pre-installing the app on new and existing phones, raising privacy and surveillance concerns The Union government has withdrawn its order requiring smartphone manufacturers to pre-install the state-run cyber safety app, Sanchar Saathi, on all devices, following widespread pushback from political leaders, industry experts, and digital rights groups. The Ministry...
Following demands from Hindutva groups, municipal authorities initially ordered the demolition of the top three floors in October 2024, later extending the order to the entire mosque in May 2025. The Himachal Pradesh High Court has directed that the lower two floors of the Sanjauli Mosque remain intact, while ordering the removal of the top...
Delhi Police opposed the bail pleas, describing the riots as an “orchestrated, pre-planned and well-designed” attack on national sovereignty Activist Sharjeel Imam told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that he had been unfairly branded a “dangerous intellectual terrorist”, as he sought bail in a case linked to the February 2020 Delhi riots, reported PTI Imam’s...
Traders say police dismissed identity documents and accused them of being foreigners for speaking Bengali Four Muslim traders from West Bengal’s Murshidabad district have been ordered to leave Odisha’s Nayagarh town within three days after being accused of being Bangladeshi or Rohingya migrants, The Telegraph reported on Tuesday. The men, all from Sagarpara gram panchayat...