North India

Jammu and Kashmir administration evicted journalists from the office of the English-language Kashmir Times newspaper on Tuesday in Srinagar, and then sealed the premises. Reporters Without Borders (RSF), an international journalists's body said it is appalled by this reprisal against a leading regional daily.

The fact-finding team led by prominent activist Medha Patkar noted that the Hathras incident is "a result of cumulative effect of caste, gender, inequality, and injustice."

The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed four Bills and adopted a resolution against the Narendra Modi government's farm laws.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF), an international body of journalists has called for the immediate release of Prashant Kanojia, Delhi based Bahujan journalist who is to appear in court this week and is facing the possibility of 28 years in prison for a retweet he quickly deleted after realizing the original had been faked.

In national capital Delhi, an issue of refusal to take an FIR on the alleged rape and murder of a Dalit girl, inhuman physical torture inflicted on the victim's family along with constant threats and ending up burning off the body of the victim forcefully.

The Caravan magazine reporter Ahan Penkar was assaulted by a police officer and then detained while he was reporting on the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Dalit girl in the north Delhi on Friday.

11 women and queer activists, academics, and journalists belonging to Dalit-Bahujan-Adivasi-Vimukta communities have filed an Impleadment Application in the matter pertaining to the rape and murder of the 19-year-old Dalit woman in Hathras by upper-caste Hindu men.

Condemning the arrests of journalists and activists under draconian UAPA for demanding justice in the case of the brutal gangrape of the Dalit woman in Hathras, the Campaign Against State Repression demands the withdrawal of the case against them, the immediate release of Atikur Rahman, national treasurer of Campus Front of India (CFI), Masud Khan, CFI Delhi general secretary and senior journalist Siddique Kappan, secretary of Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) Delhi unit and Alam, the car driver and action against the perpetrators of the horrific rape.

While the Supreme Court adjourning for four weeks the habeas corpus petition seeking the release of Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan, who was recently arrested in Hathras under draconian UAPA, the Court asked the petitioner to approach the Allahabad High Court for bail.

The Delhi High Court on 7 October granted bail to one Irshad Ahmed, an alleged associate of Tahir Hussain, and observed that witnesses in the case seem to be planted one.

More than 50 academicians, politicians, civil servants, and student leaders have condemned the arrest of Campus Front of India leaders and a journalist while on their way to Hathras and said the arrests are the latest instances of flagrant violation of law by the Uttar Pradesh Police.

Collective against Violation and Abuse of Civil and Human Rights (CAVACH), a coalition of human rights defenders in India and Europe has condemned the arrest of student leader Masud Ahmed by UP Police under draconian UAPA en route Hathras.