Mohammed Afeef

[Srishti Agnihotri @Otternyatlaw]

So, if you are a lawyer, a law student or just a general lover of legal history- do grab this book and read it!
It is an unputdownable book (I don’t use that phrase lightly). It has taught me so much about the history of the Court I have worked in for more than a decade.

[AILAJ_HQ @AilajHq]

WHITHER LABOUR RIGHTS? A Primer on the New (Anti) Labour Codes and Ways Forward to Protect Worker Rights

Inviting all on 18.04.26 @ 6PM for online release of report on the New Labour Codes. Please join
at https://t.co/V3ZLyMGbFh

For more details, please check poster.

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

Earlier this week, a Tamil Nadu National Law University student, Rishi Kumar, was reportedly asked to remove his article questioning the Supreme Court’s decision to blacklist three academics involved in drafting the NCERT chapter on judicial corruption. The University asked him to “immediately remove” the article citing “spate of phone calls from advocates of SC and HC as well as judges,” and that “the reputation of the institution was at stake.”

In a newsletter last week, @SushovanPatnaik had observed that the Court was leaving behind a ‘chilling effect’, one that could shrink further the diminished space in law schools for critical work on judicial accountability in India.

#judiciary #contemptofcourt #criticism #lawstudent

Read the newsletter:

https://t.co/tGycl3E5PW

[Rika @leninwadi]

Delhi Police illegally abducted eleven students and young activists and subjected many of them to inhumane and degrading torture, of sexualised nature. This is the second such instance within a year! There is not enough noise around this. Not enough mobilisation. Join us today!

[Maktoob @MaktoobMedia]

It is worth emphasising here that the Court had other tools at its disposal. It could have relied on the well-established principles of balance of convenience to focus more on the cumulative effect of the provisions of the Amendment. The balance of convenience test requires a court to determine which party would suffer greater and more irreparable harm if interim relief is granted or withheld.

Vikram Aditya Narayan and Mohammed Afeef write

https://t.co/0cRZdPWXJ8

[Mohammed Afeef @MoAfeef]

Crucial

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

#BREAKING #SupremeCourt stays the provision in the #WaqfAmendmentAct enabling an officer designated by the Government to determine the dispute whether the Waqf property has encroached a Govt Property.

[AILAJ_HQ @AilajHq]

AILAJ invites you to a webinar on "Detention, Deportation, and the Unmaking of Citizens"

Sunday, 24 Aug 2025
6:00 – 8:00 PM

Zoom Link: https://t.co/hqIzamoF25

Dr. Usha Ramanathan, Adv. Talha Abdul Rahman, and Darshana Mitra examine how citizenship is under attack across India.

[Clifton D' Rozario @clifroz]

Join us in Lucknow for a discussion on the need for an Advocates Protection Act. Please do see the draft by @AilajHq which is available at https://t.co/RemON2ePsp and do share your comments and suggestions.

[Dr.Medusa @ms_medusssa]

I was quick. Youtube is suppressing new videos on RG's PC. I have never asked you to share anything. But share this. Be on the right side of history.
https://t.co/iLgtsWscSz

[Sushovan Patnaik @SushovanPatnaik]

Many thanks @nousnetwork and Dr Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui for this. The podcast was a brilliant way for us to bring together the politics of the judiciary, dysfunctionality of Indian law schools, and how critical legal journalism can put a new lens on the law in India. Do watch!

[Akash Bhattacharya @akash_del06]

CPI-ML Condemns the Illegal Detention of Assamese and Bengali Migrant Workers Based on an Arbitrary MHA Order!

On 21 July 2025, a two-member CPI-ML team @cpiml_delhi (Adv. Supantha Sinha and Shayeri Mukhopadhyay) visited Gurugram, after receiving news of detention of scores of migrant workers purportedly for ascertaining their citizenship.

The team found a makeshift detention center in Sector 10 of Gurugram and found 75 male workers detained there for the last three days. The SHO of the Sector 10 Police Station reluctantly agreed to let the team meet a few workers.

After talking to the workers, the team learnt that over the last three days, 75 workers living in different parts of Gurugram West Zone had been detained. 65 of them were from Assam while 10 were from Nadia and Murshidabad districts of Bengal. Detained during late evening hours on Saturday (19 July), the workers are being forced to live in a small hall under extremely unhygienic conditions. Similar exercises had been conducted in other parts of Gurgaon as well, with some zones housing over 200 detainees currently.

The detained workers are all migrants, working in sanitation, garbage sorting, construction and other informal sectors. Some of them are security guards while others are rickshaw pullers. Most of them seem to have their voter cards, PAN cards and Aadhar cards. The Assamese workers the team spoke to, have their NRC certificates in addition to the other documents. Notably, some of them lost some documents when their colonies were demolished over the last one year.

These detentions appear to follow a Ministry of Home Affairs order issued in early May, directing states, UTs, and district authorities to submit “credential reports” on suspected foreigners within 30 days. During this period, such individuals are to be confined in holding centers. If no report is received, the Foreigners Registration Office may initiate deportation.

CPI-ML strongly condemns this order as arbitrary and in violation of fundamental rights, including protection from unlawful detention and the right to livelihood. Detaining individuals under suspicion alone, especially in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, imposes serious health risks and economic harm, with no compensation for lost earnings.

More importantly, document verification and citizenship status can be determined through standard police verification processes within fixed timeframes. Detention is not a necessary or justifiable step. The 30-day holding period further compounds the risk of wrongful deportation, particularly given the recent history of hasty and error-ridden verifications.

Be it through the SIR in Bihar or arbitrary citizenship verification process directed against Bengali-speaking migrant workers, the government is sparing no means to deprive migrant workers of their rights. Muslim migrant workers, especially those who speak Bengali, are doubly vulnerable to the communally motivated government campaign against Rohingyas and Bangladeshis.

CPI-ML @cpimlliberation demands:

1. The MHA order should be immediately withdrawn.

2. The government should stick to regular processes identifying foreigners.

3. The detained workers should be compensated for the loss of livelihood and for mental harassment not only in Gurugram but all across India.

4. The harassment of Bengali speaking migrant workers must immediately stop.

CPI-ML Delhi State Committee

[Sushovan Patnaik @SushovanPatnaik]

What is the truth of the Delhi demolitions?

A deep dive into two recent deemolitions - Madrasi camp, Wazirpur - their ongoing litigations, reveal pattern of unscientific, illogical reasons, all to distort the truth of Delhi's urban policy collapse.

My latest @TheLeaflet_ 🧵

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

A new fact-finding report by PUCL, ACPR and AILAJ Karnataka finds crucial lapses in investigation into the mob lynching of Mohd Ashraf. https://t.co/FCU5fk2qVt

[AILAJ_HQ @AilajHq]

AILAJ Statement in Solidarity with the Nationwide Workers’ Strike July 9, 2025

[Rika @leninwadi]

So proud of my dearest friend and comrade Supantha Sinha, Supreme Court advocate and AILAJ member, for standing with the displaced working-class residents of Wazirpur. Listen to the people of Wazirpur and their lawyer, Supantha.

https://t.co/d0qYnr3WnR

@AilajHq

[AILAJ_HQ @AilajHq]

AILAJ condemns the illegal demolitions in Wazirpur. Delhi HC directed Railways to file a reply to the Petition filed, but they demolished homes (many more than stated in the notice) weeks before the hearing

Creating homelessness when Constitution promises right to shelter.

[Akash Bhattacharya @akash_del06]

English played a key role in shaping a modern conception of social justice. In the caste-divided pre-modern India, Dalits and backward classes had been excluded from “classical” Sanskrit education.

https://t.co/pMSqLNlcgF

[Clifton D' Rozario @clifroz]

Let’s break down the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral roll in Bihar ordered on 24th June by the Election Commission of India. Bihar elections, by the way, are due before November this year. This is planned to be done across the country as per EC.

[Akash Bhattacharya @akash_del06]

We have seen demolitions before. Never have we seen as much hopelessness as we saw in Wazirpur today. But should we be surprised?

The government is openly violating all laws: the constitutional right to shelter, the right procedures for demolition (survey, notice, rehabilitation), respect for court orders.

In a recently filed petition, residents of Wazirpur complained of administrative arbitrariness. The High Court demanded for a response from the Railway authorities in the specific instance of Wazirpur.

In complete contravention of the legal procedures, the authorities have demolished homes weeks before the court date when they were supposed to respond - and demolished far more homes than their notice stated.

Let's be clear: we have never said that illegal structures should not be removed. All we have demanded are:

(a) the government sticks to the existing laws and constitutional principles;

(b) the government accepts that workers do not stay in illegal colonies by choice but due to compulsion, because in another violation of law, they are mostly paid even below the minimum wages;

(c) the government acknowledges that most of the "illegal colonies" have earlier been recognized by the government by granting Voter ID cards and Aadhar cards to residents on those addresses;

(d) the government provides the residents with respectable rehabilitation and assures all citizens the right to shelter.

If you feel this is too radical a demand, too "Leftist", or too impractical, please note that the ongoing brutality will render cities impractical, lead to large scale social instability, and ultimately break your lives as well.

[AICCTU Karnataka @aicctukar]

Hundreds of street vendors gathered to assert their right to vend, & their right over #Bengaluru . Street vendors provide essential goods & services to the working class, and they cannot be ignored by the BBMP or the State Govt. Statements contrary to their rights is condemnable