The bench also critiqued trial court’s conduct and said that nothing could have disentitled the accused from seeking relief under Section 436-A of CrPC
Assam sees deaths of over 8 children, with several missing and displaced, and over all 200,000 people affected by the floods after Cyclone Remal wreaks havoc.
The SIT has also issued notice to Prajwal’s mother to probe her role in the case; Revanna had left for Germany on April 26, had an arrest warrant and Interpol ‘Blue Collar Notice’ to his name
A huge rally took place in Hassan, Karnataka demanding ‘no bail, only jail’ for the previously absconding MP Prajwal Revanna, with civil society organisations from across the state rallying for justice and accountability to the victims.
The Bajrang Dal and the VHP have reportedly organised a number of weapons training camps and rallies in Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan.
While rejecting the second bail application of Khalid, the court noted that no ‘deep analysis’ of the facts of the case can be undertaken at this stage
Nehru also flagged Syama Prasad’s statements that communalism and separatism were not the real problems of India as much as poverty and unemployment were.
HPS alleges that senior officials asked policemen deployed in election duty to handover their Form 12 with details and Unstamped Ballot Papers. Form 12 is a formal application for election duty staff to cast their votes through postal ballot.
Communities resisting the proposed 11,200 MW project fear the loss of ancestral land, livelihoods and cultural heritage, with activists detained under the APUAPA
In Karnataka, during the pandemic and lockdown, mid-day meals in government schools and anganwadis under the National Food Security Act (2013) [1], shut down indefinitely [2,3] amidst growing concerns about how this would affect vulnerable communities. In spite of demands, the state government has not yet undertaken a detailed post pandemic and lockdown survey to identify the immediate and long-term interventions to address and prevent malnutrition. Several visits have been made by civil society organisations, students, nutritionists and academics to different districts of Karnataka, during and after the Covid-19 pandemic and this commentary gives a broad overview of the observations made. There is a need for an in-depth quantitative and qualitative study.
A four-day door-to-door audit in Trilokpuri found voters marked absent, shifted or dead who were still living at their registered addresses, with 47.57 lakh names missing from Delhi’s draft roll, affected voters have until October 30 to file claims
Barely 771 “foreign nationals” identified in Karnataka and a miniscule 1,600 in six other Indian states; yet the hysterical bogey of the “ghuspetiya” (illegal immigrant) has been used to render 130 million plus Indian without the right to vote?