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*Vajrasuchi: A workshop on Social Justice through the lens of assertion* 📅 *2nd to 7th June, 2026* *📍 Sambhaavnaa Institute for Public Policy, Kandbari, Tehsil Palampur, District Kangra, Himachal Pradesh* Spaces filling fast! *🔗 Register here: sambhaavnaa.org/programs/vajra…

The SC bench of Justices Vikram Nath & Sandeep Mehta have delivered an important & Salutary judgement today asking the CBI to conduct a detailed Preliminary Investigation into the thousands of crores of Contracts given by the Arunachal govt to companies of the CM Pema Khandu & his family. The govt of Arunachal has been directed to provide all info & docs relating to these contracts to the CBI. The CBI to submit its report to the court in 16 weeks

“Good Friday: God is not neutral in history; religion must humanise; salvation without justice is false; Christ must be sought in the wounds of the world. That, for me, is Good Friday in India today” A meaningful message by Comrade Vijayan on Good Friday independentink.in/post/not-in-th…

An instructive read on one form of corruption in Indian judiciary. A journal paper published in 2021 with statistical data to support its findings. "Jobs for justice(s): Corruption in the Supreme Court of IndiaJobs for justice(s): Corruption in the Supreme Court of India" ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewconten…

Archives | Surya Kant faces allegations of grave misconduct. In 2012, a real-estate agent accused the judge of having participated in illegal property dealings involving undervaluation and cash transactions worth several crores. In 2017, a prisoner in Punjab filed a complaint listing eight cases heard by Kant, and alleged that the judge had accepted bribes to grant bail in these. Though these complaints have been sitting with the collegium for over six years, Kant remained a judge at the Punjab and Haryana High Court till October 2018, when he was appointed the chief justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court. The collegium recommended his name for the post even though the questions arising from the complaint had not been resolved, and according to a former Supreme Court judge, it will do so again—this time, for elevation to the apex court. Read the entire report by Atul Dev: caravanmagazine.in/law/surya-kant… #cji

Corruption in Judiciary! #Judiciary

Sanghi thugs in Varanasi went to check licences of meat shops. Eventually, they were chased away by locals. Kotdwar's Deepak has started a beautiful trend. Need to fight back these clowns.

Statement of the Campaign for Judicial Accountability & reforms on the unconscionable statements made by the CJI against the poor& marginalised during hearings of recent cases regarding minimum wages to domestic workers& the new UGC regulations re harassment of SC/ST/OBC students

Very unfortunate remarks made by the CJI against Minimum wages for domestic workers& against trade unions. Totally unwarranted & unjustified! livelaw.in/top-stories/tr…

supporting - irani govt against west - irani people against govt

Dear @realDonaldTrump, This is an urgent request for HELP. This image from @Reuters shows just how bad things are in Iran right now. 🚨People are being shot dead & abducted by masked agents. 🚨They are being taken to unknown detention centres - where women are being sexually abused. 🚨 Protestors are facing the wrath of the Govt & even filming these agents could land u in trouble. 🚨 There is an attempt to control the flow of information and twist the truth. Mr Trump, the nation of Iran has been taken over by a ageing dictator (who by many accounts is also a child predator)...who wants absolute control over the nation. Such authoritarian action within the nation could soon spiral outside as well - resulting in global shockwaves. Requesting you Sir - as the leader of the free world, champion of global democracy & torchbearer of Human Rights to intervene and end this evil regime of Iran. - #TheDeshbhakt

Gulfisha Fatima, Meeran Haider, Shifa Ur Rehman, Md. Saleem Khan, and one other GRANTED BAIL!

#UmarKhalidBailPlea: Can you fathom the absurdity of this? The Supreme Court of India says "continued detention has not crossed constitutional impermissibility to override the statutory embargo as against them" in the case of Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam. In other words, Justice Aravind Kumar means that although a constitutional court can grant bail if the period of incarceration is long, unjustified, or disproportionate, in the case of Khalid and other, the time in jail is NOT YET long enough, the delay is NOT YET shocking or unconstitutional, and that Article 21 right to life and liberty has NOT BEEN VIOLATED yet! The constitutional right to liberty has NOT reached a level STRONG ENOUGH to defeat the draconian UAPA bail prohibition! FIVE YEARS in jail without possibility of trial starting is not good enough for Hon'ble Lordships Justice Aravind Kumar and Prasanna Varale!

The Supreme Court of India has acted in the MOST CRUEL manner in the bail plea of Umar Khalid. It has not just rejected his plea, but also, effectively, RESTRICTED him from applying for bail for the next ONE YEAR! What a terrible, terrible day for democracy. SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!

Sanders: You took on the Democratic establishment. the Republican establishment the president of the United States. and some enormously wealthy oligarchs. and you defeated them in the biggest political upset in modern American history.  You showed the world the most important lesson that can be learned today: when working people stand together—when we don't let them divide us—there is nothing we cannot accomplish

@advsanjoy @SauravDassss This can’t be true! Insane!

Idiot Gyanesh’s state satrap has served my 78 year old mother a notice to supply docs for being eligible to be included in the Bengal Electoral List. Now see the document at item 13! What kind of clowns are running this country?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

The Digital Personal Data Protection Act undermines RTI and press freedom by letting officials simply classify critical public information as ‘personal’ to deny disclosure & accountability. #SaveRTI . Artwork by @aaaaadvik

The comments made by the chief justice’s bench while hearing a plea on alleged Rohingya disappearances were contrary to constitutional values, the letter said. scroll.in/latest/1089058… #CJISuryaKant

The Supreme Court should BACK OFF from pushing this country any further into the abyss of state-managed speech. If so-called “self-regulatory” mechanisms for online intermediaries are inadequate—as Chief Justice Kant now repeatedly laments—then the same criticism applies equally, if not more, to television news channels, right? Should we then permit “an autonomous body, free from influence” to sit on the heads of TV channels too? And who will constitute this body? Angels? Also, if the VERY INSTITUTION most empowered and protected by the Constitution—the Supreme Court of India—is unable to remain free from influence, political pressure, ideological capture, and selective action, then what “independent” statutory institution is the Court imagining into existence? THERE IS NONE! And there can be none in the current political-institutional climate. The only constitutional answer to bad speech has ALWAYS been MORE speech—not state-authorised sanitisation! The Court should resist this temptation to hand the government even more censorial architecture to gag free expression under the guise of “regulation” or “reasonable restrictions”. The assurance that the Court will ensure these new powers are not misused is fiction—or worse, an outright LIE. The Supreme Court cannot enforce such a promise on a daily basis, and the history of free-speech jurisprudence shows that it does not possess the institutional will to intervene when the State inevitably weaponises these frameworks. Also, if the courtroom of the Chief Justice of India sanctifies any such provision through a judicial order, what happens when someone challenges the law/provision on the grounds of unconstitutionality in the future? What the hell is Chief Justice Kant thinking!? I wrote in greater depth about this judicial fantasy in my column: “Can courts protect free speech while designing its boundaries?” (frontline.thehindu.com/columns/mahara…) Meanwhile, the Court displays remarkable lethargy toward matters that genuinely demand judicial urgency. For instance, challenges to blatantly unconstitutional laws like Maharashtra’s so-called “Urban Naxal Act”, and contempt petitions arising from the Bulldozer judgment. These are the cases that go to the heart of rule of law and protection against executive overreach. At a time when democratic space is shrinking, the Supreme Court should be reclaiming its constitutional role, NOT becoming a designer of censorship!

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