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From Protest to Petition: Maharashtra’s Public Safety Act in the dock
After months of state-wide protests, thousands of objections and sustained civil society opposition, Maharashtra's controversial security law now faces a constitutional challenge before the Bombay High Court
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Zakia Jafri SLP: SIT continues to pat its own back, denies lacunae in investigation
As the SIT continued to make its submissions before the Supreme Court, it pointed out how the findings of the Nanavati Commission were concurrent with its own, including discrediting the petitioner’s main witnesses
Bhima Koregaon case: Bombay HC grants Sudha Bharadwaj bail
The activist had spent three years behind bars and applied for default bail; court rejected bail for eight others
Supreme Court notice to Centre, Tripura gov’t on plea seeking SIT probe
FIRs not registered, not a single arrest, but 41a notices sent to lawyers, UAPA against journalists, Prashant Bhushan tells the Supreme Court
Man “from same community arrested” for allegedly killing Dalit family: UP Police
On Saturday, police had suspended two of its personnel for allegedly “pressuring the Dalit family compromise with the upper-caste family in a dispute linked to grazing land”
Did not interrogate Nambi Narayanan: RB Sreekumar
The retired cop has been accused of torturing a former ISRO scientist and other accused during interrogation in a case of alleged espionage
Rajasthan HC endorses police order to bar worship areas on gov’t premises
Bench dismisses a PIL saying police are abiding by the state’s secular laws
An ‘encounter’ in UP: Identical injuries, allegations of ‘cow slaughter’, Muslim daily wagers in jail?
Delhi State Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist), writes to Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister asking for impartial inquiry into the alleged “encounter”
Uttar Pradesh: 4 of Dalit family masacred in Prayagraj
Protest ensue, 2 cops suspended; locals accuse police negligence as family had approached cops earlier to lodge an FIR but were allegedly rebuffed
Zakia Jafri SLP: SIT claims actions of officers not criminal, dereliction of duty maybe
Through the hearing on November 25, SIT continued to insist that the mandate of the Supreme Court in 2009 was clear that the SIT should look into the complaint of Zakia Jafri pursuant to the Gulberg Society trial case only and hence, the complaint was to be treated as additional material.
It is mayhem there… Supreme Court orders not being followed, Kapil Sibal tells SC
All India Trinamool Congress alleged that Supreme Court orders for free and fair municipal elections in Tripura were violated and people were not allowed to vote
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