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From Cow Slaughter to “Public Order”: Allahabad High Court’s expanding use of preventive detention
Through detailed reliance on fear, timing, intelligence inputs, and administrative response, the Court stretches “public order” to justify preventive detention—raising difficult questions about liberty, evidence, and constitutional limits
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Charges framed against Tahir Hussain and others, discharge from graver offence in the North-East Delhi riots
While pronouncing the discharge, the ASG observed that there was “No Due Application of Mind”
Lawyers must break the silence of complicity, question flaws of executive overreach: Kapil Sibal
In his speech at private event to commemorate five decades in the profession, senior counsel, Kapil Sibal urged advocates to encourage social mobilisation and ensure the delivery of unbiased justice
Unprecedented, Abnormal, SC order of ‘suspension’ of sentence in GN Saibaba case
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Suo motu action against hate speech crimes must be taken without waiting for complaint : Supreme Court
Image courtesy: https://www.lawinsider.in There cannot be fraternity unless different religious communities...
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Life sentence of murder convict upheld by Madras High Court, victim class 9 girl who rebuffed his advances
The Court also said in its judgment that youngsters today, insecure and traumatised, are short on emotional quotient and are prone to taking extreme steps at the slightest of disturbance or rejection.
Indian Supreme Court & Eight Years of Modi
After Modi became PM the Supreme Court “succumbed to the executive's control”; “all floodgates opened after CJI Thakur’s retirement”; “judges appointing judges is not a good idea, the National Judicial Commission is best"
Kheda public flogging: Gujarat HC issues notice to police, Muslim victims seek action
The outrageous and unlawful public flogging selectively of Muslims...
Sterlite Police Firing Case: Police found guilty, was unprovoked and indiscriminate
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