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Prominent Dalit scholar and rights defender Anand Teltumbde released from Taloja Central Prison in Navi Mumbai today after spending 957 days in jail under draconian UAPA.

“The Defense Committee for the Release of Saibaba felt that the Bombay High Court Judgment finally did Justice to Saibaba and others who have been incarcerated for the last almost seven years. The reversal of Judgment in great hurry is a reflection on the Justice system in India,” read a statement by Prof. G. Haragopal, chairman, the committee for the ex-DU professor's defence and release.

The reason behind this state repression of GN Saibaba is not unknown and it is well understood that he was incarcerated to suppress the voices against Operation Green Hunt, which was a war waged by the Indian state on its own populace, to facilitate unprecedented corporate loot of resources.

Peoples Union For Democratic Rights on Saturday demanded proper health facilities and immediate medical attention for jail inmates, after Vernon Gonsalves, one of the 16...

Muslim activist and Campus Front of India leader Atikur Rahman has become “partially paralyzed” and is unable to recognize anyone due to medical negligence by the police authorities, claimed his wife, Sanjida Rahman, and his lawyer. 

The Supreme Court will hear a plea filed by Telugu poet and accused in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case, P Varavara Rao, challenging the...