Law And Citizenship

Following mass exclusions from the electoral rolls, the West Bengal government has made SIR inclusion mandatory for access to PDS benefits. Does linking citizenship to welfare and labour benefits have any statutory basis? And how can the judiciary intervene?

In its 124-page judgement upholding the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision of Bihar’s electoral rolls, the Supreme Court ruled that the Election Commission acted within its constitutional authority under Article 324 and the Representation of People Act.

As the Supreme Court keeps the SIR in suspension, lawyers across the West Bengal bar, including the grandson of a former Rajya Sabha MP, have had their names struck off electoral rolls, with many appellate tribunals still in complete dysfunction.

Years of State-sanctioned erasure has reduced Kurdish people to second-class citizens through judicial persecution, linguistic prohibition, and the systematic dismantling of democratic representation.

Final part of the five-part series examining the forcible expulsion of Indian citizens to Bangladesh based on unverified suspicions of illegal migration, conducted without due process

Fourth part of the five-part series examining the forcible expulsion of Indian citizens to Bangladesh based on unverified suspicions of illegal migration, conducted without due process

Third part of the five-part series examining the forcible expulsion of Indian citizens to Bangladesh based on unverified suspicions of illegal migration, conducted without due process

Second part of the five-part series examining the forcible expulsion of Indian citizens to Bangladesh based on unverified suspicions of illegal migration, conducted without due process