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Ex-TISS student gets bail as Mumbai Court rejects Maoist link based on ‘suspicion’

Court rejects the prosecution’s attempt to link Abhirup Ashim Paul to Maoist activities, holding that books, slogans and association with a student group could not by themselves establish such a connection

Gauhati HC stays order to register FIR against Assam CM for inflammatory remarks about eviction drive

Himanta Biswa Sarma had said that the Darrang eviction drive was revenge for the 1983 Assam agitation

Uttarakhand HC recognises difference between Hate Speech and Free Speech

Refusing bail to Jitendra Tyagi alias Waseem Rizvi, the Uttarakhand HC has balanced the right to individual liberty and a community’s right to live with security and dignity

Delhi Violence: Court dismisses Gulfisha Fatima, Tasleem Ahmed’s bail pleas

Ahmed and Fatima, with several other activists, students and lawyers, have been booked under the UAPA, in the infamous FIR 59/2020

Delhi HC allows re-opening Nizamuddin Markaz for Shab-E-Baraat

The High Court bench observed that the management will ensure proper social distancing guidelines and does not deserve exhaustive conditions for re-opening

Delhi Violence: Ishrat Jahan granted bail in wider conspiracy case

The advocate and political activist has been languishing behind bars for 25 months

HC grants bail to former IPS officer Amitabh Thakur

Arrested on August 27, 2021, after a rape victim died by suicide, accusing him of protecting accused, BSP MP Atul Rai

SC slams State, issues notice for protection of witnesses in Ashish Mishra case

UP state to ensure witness protection and file counter affidavit by March 24, 2022

Walkouts, objections, after Karnataka HC verdict on Hijab, but BJP netas hail it

Students of a Govt PU college in Karnataka walked out in protest, boycotting classes and exams as soon as the Karnataka high court pronounced its verdict

Jitendra Tyagi’s Dharam Sansad hate speech intended to wage war: Uttarakhand High Court

The Court said that the freedom of speech is not an absolute right and is subject to limitations contained in Article 19(2) of the Constitution

SC to hear plea challenging Ashish Mishra’s bail tomorrow

Ever since he was enlarged on bail, his supporters have grown bolder and even brutally attacked an eye-witness in the Lakhimpur-Kheri massacre

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