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What the Forum for Human Rights

The Forums seventh Annual Report documents a rekindled militancy following the Red Fort attack, a rise in the profiling and harassment of Kashmiri Muslims, the routine invocation of UAPA and PSA against civilians, and continued stagnation on statehood, alongside a special section on Ladakh and Pakistan-held Kashmir.

11 Aug 2026 7:40 pm
Tarun Tejpal and the search for the

The Goa bench of the Bombay High Courts decision earlier this week convicting and sentencing for ten years of incarceration Tarun Tejpal, former editor of Tehelka magazine, of sexually assaulting a former colleague arrived as a reckoning of the victims thirteen years of a Sisyphean struggle through relentlessness, shaming and facing the regressive churn of our courts. In 2021, eight years after Tejpal was first accused of raping a junior colleague in the elevator of a Goa resort, abusing his p

11 Aug 2026 3:58 pm
Vocabulary as the Cause of Action: The limits of the Supreme Court

The Supreme Courts new Report on reforming judicial language treats sanitising vocabulary as a substitute for resolving the status-based rights those very words were built to define, a blind spot in its approach to sensitivity.

11 Aug 2026 3:48 pm
Collegium recommends Chief Justices across Four High Courts

The Collegiums latest recommendations, which do not spell out the reasoning, seek to appoint chief justices across the High Courts of Patna, Calcutta, Bombay, Punjab & Haryana, and possibly, if Justice Sunita Agarwal is elevated to the Supreme Court, the Gujarat High Court as well.

10 Aug 2026 1:47 pm