The petition ultimately asks the Supreme Court to confront not merely the legality of the Noida prosecutions (or lack thereof), but the police investigative culture that made them possible. By Mouli Sharma The Shakambhari writ petition, one of several eponymous petitions filed in India’s courts of supposed justice by the imprisoned 60-year-old journalist Satyam […]
While most of the over 170 people named in the at least 14 FIRs filed in relation to the matter—one of the more controversial aspects of the police action, as filing multiple FIRs in the same criminal action is illegal as per Indian law—are out on bail, the eight prominent activists charged with ‘criminal conspiracy’ […]
The Shakambhari writ petition in the Supreme Court is one of several petitions filed by Shakambhari, the wife of the imprisoned sixty-year-old journalist Satyam Verma, across the Indian courts of law in the wake of wave of arrests that took place following mass protests and workers’ strikes in Noida through the second week of April […]
‘Compensation for victims’ families, no prosecution of protesters, and a public apology from the police for their brutality’—these were the demands the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) settled for, on oral assurances alone, when it called off the historic protest against corruption in India’s public education sector following the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan. A week after […]
The outrage of over one lakh Indians at 20th July’s ‘Chalo Sansad’ call for Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation has exposed the Union government’s strategic urban infrastructure disguised as dormant policing machinery–along with all its violent cracks. By Mouli Sharma New Delhi, 20 July 2026: Approximately one lakh people took to the […]
Demonstrators in Delhi, Kolkata, Patna, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, and other cities demand the release of workers and activists arrested after the 2026 Noida wage protests, citing allegations of custodial torture, fabricated evidence, and unlawful police action. Mouli Sharma New Delhi, 11 July 2026 Protests broke out across the country on Saturday as three months […]
Lawyers, activists and academics examining four chargesheets filed in the Noida workers’ protest cases by the UP police say the documents are riddled with contradictory arrest records, fabricated recoveries, vague allegations and glaring procedural violations—raising fundamental questions about the criminalisation of labour protest in Uttar Pradesh. This article was commissioned by and first published […]
A massive turnout at Cockroach Janta Party’s ‘Gen-Z Protest’ against corruption and incompetence in India’s public education sector signals a changing of the guard in Indian public fora. The police-permitted peaceful protest took place within Jantar Mantar’s designated demonstration area, and was a one-of-a-kind, perhaps chaotic display of new age, spontaneous mobilisation made possible through […]
Mazdoor Adhikar Sangharsh Abhiyan (MASA), a joint platform of workers’ organisations and trade unions, organised a press conference on Tuesday, 21 April, at Press Club of India. The gathering was addressed by Supreme Court senior counsel Adv. Prashant Bhushan and various worker organisation leaders. At this time, thousands of workers across Delhi-NCR and various other […]
At a press conference held at the Press Club of India on Monday, concerns were raised over large-scale deletions from electoral rolls in West Bengal just ahead of the Assembly elections, with speakers alleging that the exercise reflects a grave assault on federal democratic processes by the ECI. Organised by the Association for Protection […]
Despite official denial, sanitation workers and activists say caste-based sewer deaths in Modi’s Swachha Bharat continue unabated —“every 2–3 days, one Indian dies in a gutter.” Mouli Sharma Groundxero | 26 March, 2026 | New Delhi “I joined [the movement] in 2015,” says Mangal, a 29-year-old from Delhi orphaned after his father drowned to death in […]
Groundxero | March 5, 2026 By Mouli Sharma Fifty-one JNU students were detained and 14 arrested by the Delhi Police on February 26 over a students’ protest march to the Ministry of Education, demanding implementation of the recently stayed UGC guidelines for the prevention of caste discrimination in higher education institutions, alongside condemning the casteist remarks […]
Behind Gurugram’s latest demolition drive lies a decade-old nexus of corruption, caste, and state neglect. By MOULI SHARMA Groundxero | Oct 31, 2025 On 8th October 2025, in Gurugram’s (Haryana) Sector 12, on Old Delhi Road, homes were razed down after residents were forcibly dragged out by a massive police force, in yet another case […]
An Open Letter to CJI on RG Kar Rape and Murder September 15, 2024 To The Chief Justice of India Justice DY Chandrachud Supreme Court, India Subject: Citizen Petition in the RG Kar Rape and Murder Case Asking for Effective Legal Directives Addressing Sexual Violence and Police Repression This letter has been […]
Who is the next target? Vitriolic attacks on the human rights activists continue unabated in our country. Amidst this despicable ploy to implicate the activists in numerous cases, the next question which obviously arises is, who is the next target? We think we already know the answer. This time, the venomous arrow has been […]