Nitesh Rane and Geeta Jain had openly made inflammatory speeches, leading to communal clashes in many pockets of Mira Road in Thane district.

The institute, increasingly seen to be supporting the BJP dispensation, has suspended a PhD scholar from a Dalit community and asked law enforcement agencies to launch an investigation against him for participating in a protest against the NEP.

The political landscape in Maharashtra today is markedly different from what it was in 2019. The newly added parties (factions), with their new symbols, have already complicated an overcrowded political space to confuse voters.

Police behaviour towards children of the Pardhi community in response to an allegation of thievery is a stark reminder of the extent to which law enforcement excesses plague marginalised communities.

Sixty-five-year-old Sen, who suffers with hypertension and arthritis among other ailments, has moved bail applications before the trial court and the apex court on several occasions. Her bail application, however, came to be rejected each time.

The Pune police, at multiple places in the Elgar Parishad chargesheet, claimed that some of those arrested in the Elgar Parishad case had a “direct association” with Saibaba.

'I can’t go to the toilet, I can’t take a bath without support, and I lived in jail without any relief for so long,' the former Delhi University professor said in his first press briefing since his release from Nagpur Central jail.

Saibaba, who is 90% disabled and wheelchair-bound, and the others were charged under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). Arrested in 2014, he is likely to be freed now.

'The prosecution has failed to establish the seizure of incriminating material from the house search of G.N. Saibaba," the judges said. "The prosecution has also failed to prove the electronic evidence in terms of the provisions of the Indian Evidence Act, and the Information Technology Act."

A series of coincidences, of opposition leaders having central agencies chasing them and then when they defect to the BJP, the pursuit appears to stop.

According to the student’s classmates, the police reached the IIPS campus early on the morning of February 21 and arrested him there.

The BJP has been accused of being a "washing machine" where any opposition leader facing criminal charges is accepted and the investigation against them by central agencies stops.

Nitesh Rane’s press conference was not for all. Only a select few journalists, with established pro-Hindutva credentials, were allowed for the conference.

In the decade and half since the former Congress leader was named in the scam, the BJP has raked this issue up from time to time. It even found mention in its government's recent 'white paper'.

Electronic evidence, independent witnesses, and at least four FIRs point to the direct involvement of the BJP Maharashtra vice-president in public incitement of communal tension in the western Maharashtra region.

Members of the committee have no track record of tackling discrimination – but do have a closeness to the BJP. Their affidavit in the Supreme Court does not respond to the many issues raised in Abeda Tadvi and Radhika Vemula’s petition.

The 23-year-old Dalit student was one of many who had written a confidential letter to the institute's director and also put up a status on WhatsApp questioning the frenzy on January 22.

Coinciding with the consecration of Ram Temple in Ayodhya, around 300 young men descended on the Mumbai neighbourhood and attacked shops that had a seemingly Muslim name, and also others that did not hoist a saffron flag outside their establishments.