The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on Thursday said the plea to constitute a fact-finding committee to find out the “real truth” behind the Taj Mahal construction is a “non-justiciable” issue. A non-justiciable issue is something, which the Court cannot decide or go into.
Author: Shams Tabrez Qasmi (Shams Tabrez Qasmi)
Sale of Govt Shares in LIC, A Retrograde Move: D Raja, CPI General Secretary
Communist Party of India General Secretary said that it is a matter of great regret that the BJP-led NDA government is hell-bent on selling off all national assets through monetisation policy and privatisation of public sector units. The tragedy is that those long-term assets are being sold to collect revenue to meet the current expenditure...
NCHRO condemns arrest of Jignesh Mevani: Says actual hate speech isn’t prosecuted while tweets are leading to arrests
On April 20, Dalit politician Jignesh Mevani was arrested by the Assam police for a tweet in which he wrote that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi considers Nathuram Godse a God. He was taken back to the Kokrajhar Jail after being granted bail by First Class Judicial Magistrate Bhavna Kakoty with several conditions. However, Mevani...
The Uniform Civil Code is Unconstitutional and anti-Minority Unacceptable to Muslims: AIMPLB
New Delhi: Hazrat Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani, General Secretary, All India Muslim Personal Law Board, in his press note, said that the Constitution of India has allowed every citizen of the country to live according to his religion, and this is a fundamental right. Under the same right, separate personnel laws have been granted for minorities...
Repeal AFSPA entirely after its removal from several districts in Assam, Nagaland and Manipur: MURL
Justice B G Kolse Patil, President, Movement Against UAPA And Other Repressive Laws (MURL) said in a press statement issued here today, that The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, (AFSPA), is the main reason for the uncontrolled military powers for detention, torture, destruction, killing and execution of Indian citizens in North-Eastern states. This Draconian Act...
NCHRO wrote a letter to Police Commissioner of Delhi against hate speech given in Burari, New Delhi
On April 3, 2022, a Hindu Mahapanchayat was held at Burari, New Delhi, where open calls for taking up arms were given. At least five journalists were allegedly assaulted in the process of covering the event. In August 2021, too, there was a similar event after which the organizers of the current event, Preet Singh...
Hijab Integral Part of Islam; Courts Must not Interpret Religion: PFI
Popular Front of India Chairman O M A Salam expressed deep disappointment over the Karnataka High Court judgment dismissing the petitions against the Hijab ban. Karnataka High Court’s dismissal of Muslim girl students’ petition holding that Hijab is not an essential part of Islam is deeply disappointing. The judgment is against the spirit of constitutional...
Women of the country must oppose the ban on Hijab Karnatka High Court verdict: Advocate Poonam Kaushik
The PMS expresses its deep concern at the Karnataka High Court judgement upholding the Hijab ban in educational institutions which was suddenly ordered by the BJP RSS Karnataka Govt. It is one more missile against women and girls’ accessing education . It and the Govt order both prove that the slogan of Beti Bachao -Beti...
Hijab in the OT( First ever OT hijab)
In today’s time when hijab has become an issue in so many parts of the world including India, I would like to share my Hijab story and how me and my friends came up with probably the first ever OT hijab in India.Carrying a hijab in public and professional places has always been a challenge...
Shamim Ahmad: Life and Services of a Human Rights Activist
By Shams Tabrez Qasmi Born and brought up in the Champaran district of Bihar, Shamim Ahmad has, for the last twenty five years, been matchlessly involved in various philanthropic and welfare activities including preservation of Human Rights, campaign against violence, movement for promotion of Urdu, agitation against state tyranny, helping the underprivileged section, food distribution...