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‘Deportation Cannot Begin without Nationality Verification’: Union’s Rajubala affidavit clarifies legal limits on executive power

In an affidavit filed in the Rajubala Das case, the Union reaffirms that deportation requires nationality verification, travel documents and acceptance by the receiving State, while setting out the legal framework governing detention pending deportation

Supreme Court: Education not business to earn profit, tuition fee must be affordable

SC Upholds lower court’s decision quashing seven-fold increase of tuition fee in private medical colleges

Collegium system & transparency of judicial appointments: a conundrun

Between criticisms of opaque-ness and an absence of transparency to concerns of brazen interference from an Executive that has shown no regard for Constitutional basics even niceties, the Collegium system of appointment of Judges is once again in public debate

Government v/s Supreme Court: a throwback to a tussle for judicial autonomy

Recent statements, particularly strident from India’s minister for Law and Justice, Kiran Rijiju, an Arunachal politician previously groomed under Amit Shah’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) offer a powerful throwback to similar attempts by a previously authroritarian government in the lead-up to the Emergency in the 1970s.

Karnataka HC overturns lower court’s order blocking Congress Bharat Jodo Yatra Twitter accounts

Calling the order as “punitive action”, High Court ordered for the removal of the 45 second music clip of KGF movie used by Congress

Our Constitution does not speak the language of exclusion: minority judgement holds EWS as unconstitutional

Justice Ravindra Bhat and CJI UU Lalit, in the dissenting judgement held that by excluding SC/ST/OBC from EWS reservations, the basic structure of the Constitution as well as the Equality Code is violated

Arrest Warrant issued against Deepak Chaurasia by Special POCSO Court in Gurugram

Case pertains to alleged airing of morphed video of child and family, Court cancels bail for intentionally avoiding appearance

Varanasi: Gyanvapi hearing over ‘Shivling’ worship deferred to Nov 14

After hearing arguments of both the sides, the fast track court had on October 27 reserved its order on the suit for November 8.

Why the hurry to unseat Azam Khan? SC to UP Govt

Azam’s Rampur Sadar seat was declared 'vacant' just one day after an MP/MLA court sentenced him to three years in jail on October 27 over a 2019 hate speech

Did the RSS defy Madras HC order in carrying out rallies?

RSS was miffed with HC order which had granted permission for the rallies with certain restrictions, yet it carried out rallies in 3 districts

State Failure to protect lives during 1992-1993 communal violence, compensation for kin of missing persons, dormant cases to be revived: SC

One of the root causes of their suffering was the failure of the State Government to maintain law and order says the November 4 order of the Supreme Court

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