Last week, the Bombay High Court judge hearing activist Vernon Gonsalves' bail plea in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon case brought up among other things a certain book that was found in the activist's home. ...
Who defends in India the rights of the defenders of human rights? Going by the incisively worded letter of the European Parliament’s subcommittee on human rights to the Indian home minister, no one....
In 1991, I joined the Supreme Court of India as a chamber junior to G. Ramaswami, the then attorney-general for India. That winter, a Constitution bench of five judges, presided over by Chief Justice ...
Five Supreme Court judges have in four days recused themselves from hearing rights activist Gautam Navlakha’s plea for quashing the FIR against him in the Bhima Koregaon case, with one day left befo...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi told election-bound Chhattisgarh on Friday that “urban Maoists live in AC rooms in cities, look clean, build their stature by rubbing shoulders with sensible people; the...
Fifteen special rapporteurs from the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights have expressed concern over 10 activists being arrested under the Unlawful Activities Prevention...
The Maharashtra government on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Delhi High Court order allowing Gautam Navlakha, one of the five rights activists arrested in connection with the Korega...
A pan-India rights group for education and Ambedkarite scholars from across the world on Monday urged the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision to deny anticipatory bail to Anand Teltumbde, an acad...
The Supreme Court on Monday directed rights activists Gautam Navalakha and Anand Teltumbde to surrender to Pune police within three weeks in connection with the 2018 Bhima-Koregaon case.The bench of J...
Dalit politician Prakash Ambedkar on Saturday alleged the government planned to arrest Ambedkarite scholar Anand Teltumbde in connection with a two-year-old Elgar Parishad meeting in Pune, where provo...