कानून का बोलबाला
October 26, 2014
Report from the Ground Trilokpuri, Delhi
Shahnawaz Malik
मयूर विहार से सटा त्रिलोकपुरी दिल्ली की मिली-जुली आबादी वाला इलाका है। सांप्रदायिक तनाव की चपेट में आने से पहले यह इलाका बीते साल असेंबली इलेक्शन के वक्त सुर्ख़ियों में आया था जब यहां के बाशिदों ने आम आदमी पार्टी के टिकट पर खड़े हुए राजू धिंगान को जीत का सेहरा पहनाया। खेल गांव में चल रही वोटों की गिनती के वक्त राजू वहां...
October 15, 2014
Baba Adhav, at 84 remains a doyen of the working class movement having organised the unorganised section of India's working class, the ragpicker, the domestic worker into what Pune and many parts of Maharashtra proudly know as the Hamal Panchayats. Hamals, mainly from backward castes, came from all over rural Maharashtra to Pune's markets, unloading heavy sacks of grain or cement on their...
September 21, 2014
September 12, 2014
New Delhi, 12 Sep 2014: India's prominent Muslim organization has written a letter to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh over spurt in saffron hate campaign against minorities, particularly Muslims since Bharatiya Janata Party came to power at the Centre in May this year. In his three-page letter on Wednesday, Mr. Nusrat Ali, Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, country’s largest...
September 6, 2014
Destruction of Record by the MHA Post May 2014
Dear all,
Readers may remember the furore in the Rajya Sabha on 9th July when an Hon'ble Member raised an issue of destruction of files of historical value as alleged in news reports published that day. Several members expressed their concern over this alleged files destruction. First, the Union Minister for Law and Justice denied that any...
July 7, 2014
The Supreme Court’s gave the fatwa ruling in the public interest petition filed by an advocate VishwaLochan Madan.The petitioner was prompted to file the petition subsequent to the fatwas issued in the cases of Imrana, Asoobi and Jatsonara. In the first case, Imrana was raped by her father-in-law and the Dar-ul-Uloom issued a fatwa dissolving her marriage with his son and thereafter...
May 1, 2014
When Justice Becomes the Victim
The Quest for Justice After the 2002 Violence in Gujarat
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This report was authored by Stephan Sonnenberg, Clinical Supervising Attorney and Lecturer in Law with the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic (IHRCRC). The Stanford IHRCRC is one of ten clinics in the Mills Legal Clinic at Stanford Law School.
The...