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Himalayan Courts: New turns in environmental jurisprudence | CJP
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (943+ words) 22, May 2026 | A Legal Researcher Jammu and Kashmir: Continuity in Wetland and Alpine Protection The Himachal Pradesh Cascade: Hydropower, Mining, and Urban Deregulation The judgments discussed earlier did protect forests, rivers, lakes, and local communities. However, they are not the usual…...
Khoj students in Varanasi engage in activities to challenge prejudice | CJP
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (1749+ words) 22, May 2026 | CJP Team Khoj Students Tour Temples, Mosque and Church Fifty-three students from two schools in Varanasi'one predominantly Hindu and the other predominantly Muslim'visited various religious sites across the city on February 10, 2026. In Varanasi, also known as Kashi'a city regarded…...
How hate begins " and how we can stop it together | CJP
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (255+ words) 22, May 2026 | CJP Team The next stage involves acts of prejudice, including name-calling, social exclusion, and targeting particular communities through belittling jokes and everyday humiliation. The third stage is discrimination, where communities face harassment, bullying, and exclusion in housing, employment, and…...
Three Inflammatory Speeches, within two months prompt CJP to file complaint with Minority Commission and seek intervention | CJP
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (190+ words) 21, May 2026 | CJP Team The videos of their speeches were circulated online, and the three individuals have called for discrimination against the Minorities in a variety of unpalatable ways. The complaint lists down all the relevant penal provisions that are applicable…...
SC's Andrabi Judgment: Reclaiming constitutional liberty from the expanding carceral logic of UAPA jurisprudence | CJP
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (1244+ words) 21, May 2026 | CJP Team The judgment must therefore be read not simply as a bail order, but as a constitutional correction to the increasingly punitive trajectory of UAPA jurisprudence. One of the most significant contributions of the judgment lies in the…...
CJP seeks FIRs over alleged communal hate speeches in Maharashtra and Bengal | CJP
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1662+ words) 13, May 2026 | CJP Team CJP stated in the complaints that the alleged hate speeches violated constitutional guarantees under Articles 14, 15 and 21 and attracted offences under provisions relating to promotion of enmity between groups, criminal intimidation, statements conducing to public mischief, deliberate acts…...
How Hate Was Built: Elections, Media, and the Politics of Fear | CJP
4+ week, 1+ day ago (120+ words) How Hate Was Built: Elections, Media, and the Politics of Fear'Citizens for Justice and Peace | CJP Hate was not accidental. It was organised, repeated, and amplified. From Lok Sabha 2024 to the elections that followed, this video traces how fear and…...
Anticipating Disorder, Curtailing Liberty: The Allahabad High Court's expansive turn on preventive detention in cow slaughter cases | CJP
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (1377+ words) At first glance, both cases appear fact-specific: allegations of cow slaughter, local unrest, and administrative response. But a closer reading reveals something far more significant. Across both rulings, the Court systematically reorients the constitutional inquiry: Read together, these decisions reflect…...
Abdul Sheikh Citizenship Case: Gauhati High Court extends protection from deportation, state to raise maintainability | CJP
2+ mon, 14+ hour ago (543+ words) 24, Mar 2026 | CJP Team Details of the previous case proceedings in GHC, challenging their detention, may be accessed here, here and here. At the outset, counsel for the petitioner, Advocate Mrinmoy Dutta, submitted that the writ petition is maintainable and deserves…...
Maharashtra's Proposed Anti-Conversion Law: Manufacturing moral panic to criminalise personal choice | CJP
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (705+ words) 09, Mar 2026 | CJP Team The structure of the proposed law reflects a deeper pattern visible in anti-conversion statutes enacted across several Indian states. While ostensibly directed at preventing coercion or fraudulent conversions, the operational design of these laws effectively places state…...