Rampur DM says a BLO found the woman hid her sons’ overseas addresses and allegedly forged their signatures; a case has been filed against her and her sons. A 66-year-old Muslim woman in Rampur has been booked for allegedly providing false information about her two sons during the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, authorities...
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Only 27% of Waqf properties registered on UMEED portal after deadline lapses
Karnataka topped the list with registrations for 81% of its 65,242 properties, followed by Jammu & Kashmir (77%), Punjab (90%) and Gujarat (61%). West Bengal recorded the lowest compliance, with only 716 registrations, less than 1% of its 80,480 properties. Only about 27% of India’s roughly 800,000 waqf properties have been registered on the government’s...
Pregnant Bengal woman, son pushed into Bangladesh brought back to India; husband still detained
The woman, her husband and child were forced into Bangladesh in June after officials claimed they were illegal migrants Indian authorities on Friday facilitated the return of a pregnant woman from West Bengal and her eight-year-old son who were allegedly forced across the border into Bangladesh earlier this year after being labelled undocumented immigrants, according...
Ex-judges, top lawyers criticise CJI remarks equating Rohingya refugees with intruders
Court reportedly questioned the legal status of Rohingya in India, compared their entry to that of ‘intruders digging tunnels’ and asked whether those entering illegally were entitled to food, shelter and education. A group of former judges, senior advocates and civil society members on Friday issued an open letter to Chief Justice of India, expressing...
Uttar Pradesh police arrest three after video shows Dalit youth assaulted, forced to strip in Jhansi
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...
Over 10,000 held under UAPA from 2019-2023, but convictions total just 335
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...
Bombay HC grants bail to ex-Delhi University professor Hany Babu in Bhima Koregaon case
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)...
Central govt panel recommends removing Muslim groups from OBC list in West Bengal
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...
Supreme Court rules Muslim men must return bride’s parental gifts after divorce
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...
Kolkata court convicts five for life over 2016 terror conspiracy
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...








