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Oct 5, 2020 · Srinagar: Mirza Nisar Hussain, 40, a resident of downtown Srinagar, was acquitted of all charges and released from a jail in Rajasthan in July last year after 23 years of incarceration in jails in Delhi and Rajasthan. Nisar was among the four men from Jammu and Kashmir acquitted last year by the Rajasthan High Court in connection with the 1996 Samleti bomb blast case.

Feb 15, 2021 · Among the journalists that the video—it claimed to reveal a “money trail” between the journalists and an “anti-India conspiracy” to draw attention to ongoing protests by thousands of farmers—named were Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair, Washington Post columnist Rana Ayyub, independent journalist Faye D’Souza, television anchor and owner of Mojo Story Barkha Dutt, senior editor ...

Jun 3, 2024 · The three new criminal laws, effective from 1 July 2024, to overhaul India’s criminal justice system have faced criticism for increasing police powers and introducing offences like terrorism without proper safeguards. Experts worry about the potential misuse of these new provisions. Right to Information requests filed by Article 14 to obtain information about the laws’ formation and ...

3 days ago · In 2024, security forces said they killed 287 Maoists, or more than 10 times the number the previous year, in Chhattisgarh’s Maoist stronghold of Bastar. At least 80 alleged Maoists had been shot dead until 10 February 2025—including 31 on 9 February. As war rages in the forests and villages of central India, we travelled to four ‘encounter’ sites to find Adivasis alleging abuses and ...

Jul 1, 2020 · A former fellow of the prestigious Prime Minister’s Rural Development Programme of the ministry of rural development, the diminutive, bespectacled Mahesh Raut is the youngest of the ‘Bhima Koregaon 11’, a term used for 11 eminent writers, academics, lawyers, journalists and human rights defenders arrested from across India over June and …

Of 293 pages in the 5 March 2024 Bombay High Court judgement acquitting former Delhi university professor G N Saibaba of terrorism charges, almost 240 examine a litany of procedural non-compliances in the prosecution case against the disabled, 57-year-old who spent a decade in jail without bail or parole, even when his parents died.

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Feb 18, 2020 · Lt Col Seema Singh and Lt Col Sandhya Yadav tell Article 14 how 11 officers fought tirelessly from 2008 to make history for women in the army. Their behind-the-scenes account includes tales of chocolate, congeniality and chai.

Jul 30, 2021 · The Delhi police accused protesting students of terorrism but refused to treat violence-inciting hate speeches of ruling party leaders as even culpable criminal acts. More than a century after the Rowlatt Act of 1919 allowed the British to indefinitely jail Indians it suspected of terrorism without trial, the UAPA & related laws allow free India’s government to do the same.