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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

Delhi HC grants bail to man accused of raping his Tinder match, says that sexual intercourse was completely ‘voluntary’

Suspending a 10 year rigorous imprisonment, the Delhi HC based its evaluation on blog posts of the prosecuterix

Jyoti Jagtap denied bail: Elgar Parishad case, Bombay High Court

So far, with the exception of Sudha Bharadwaj and Varavara Rao, none of the accused, academics, activists or journalists are on bail

Delhi: Men scale over walls to enter women’s college, sexually harass students

Miranda House students share horrifying accounts on social media; Delhi Police take suo motu cognisance, file FIR

Supreme Court suspends Bombay High Court order acquitting GN Saibaba and five others in Maoist links case, all to remain in jail

Court issues notice and grants accused four weeks to file counter applications

It is a matter of choice, nothing more nothing less: Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia in Hijab Ban case

Split verdict in Supreme Court where Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia allows the appeals and sets aside Karnataka HC order, while Justice Hemant Gupta dismisses appeals; matter to be placed before CJI

SC to hear urgent appeal against GN Saibaba’s acquittal

State had moved application demanding urgent listing claiming acquittal was not justifiable

Section 43D UAPA: Accused not heard, report of the prosecution doesn’t ‘need to be shared’ under the law

In this recent judgment by the Madras High Court, two SriLankan nationals are denied bail along with their right to be heard

Gyanvapi case: Varanasi court rejects plea to conduct carbon dating test of “shivling”

Mosque management authority sees this as a positive development; petitioners to appeal against order in SC

Bombay HC acquits Professor GN Saibaba & five others in Maolist link case, says ‘national security’ not above due process

Nagpur Division Bench passed the order, allowed his appeal against conviction and life sentence; others acquitted include journalist Prashant Rahi

Justice Hemant Gupta’s take on secularism, fraternity and uniformity in the Hijab Ban case

Permitting one religious community to wear their religious symbols would be the antithesis to secularism, held the Judge

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