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Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

Gujarat HC partially allows Sanjiv Bhatt’s plea to access documents in the 1996 NDPS case

 He is serving life sentence in a 30-year-old custodial death case, and is also facing trial for allegedly framing a lawyer by allegedly planting 1.5 kg opium at a hotel

Allahabad HC reprimands Registry for not listing pleas filed against UP anti-love jihad law

The court noticed that even though the pleas were scheduled for hearing on October 5, the same were not listed accordingly

Sharjeel Imam accuses Delhi Police of hollow arguments, says government criticism important

The PhD student was arrested last year on sedition and terrorism charges in connection with his speeches against CAA

Assam Police Firing: Farmers and workers unions demand justice for victims and survivors

Team of representatives of various unions visits Dhalpur, demands rehabilitation and compensation for affected families

Lakhimpur Kheri deaths: A Timeline

Preceding and ensuing events of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident reject the notion that the violence was incited by protesting farmers

Madras HC quashes cases against anti-CAA protestors, says no prima facie case established

The court also observed that right to protest is recognised by law, and that no violation of law took place during the protest

Visit prisons, interview inmates, gauge prison conditions: MP High Court to CJMs, DLSA

The order was passed in a suo moto petition taken up by the court concerned with condition of overcrowded prisons during the second wave of Covid-19

K’taka HC directs state gov’t to come up with scholarship for children of manual scavengers

The court has given the government 30 days to come up with a uniform scheme for the same

Lakhimpur Kheri: Main accused yet to be arrested, Opposition leaders being detained  

An FIR has been registered against Ashish Mishra, compensations for victims announced, as politics hots up over the issue 

Lakhimpur Kheri violence: SC laments how nobody takes responsibility when such incidents happen

Last night, four farmers were killed when they were allegedly run over by Ashish Mishra, the son of Union Minister of State (MoS) for Home Ajay Mishra

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Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

Malegaon 2006 Blast Case: Bombay High Court rejects NIA’s ‘alternate narrative’, holds prosecution built on contradictions and inadmissible evidence

Holding that “diagonally opposite” narratives by investigative agencies cannot sustain a trial, the Court finds the NIA’s case rooted in retracted statements, hearsay material, and a legally impermissible reinvestigation—bringing the prosecution to a “dead end”

Delhi court orders FIR against Abhijit Iyer Mitra for sexually abusive posts targeting women journalists

Court finds tweets “sexually coloured,” prima facie intended to outrage modesty; directs police probe into X account and devices

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

From FIRs to “Corporate Jihad”: How the TCS Nashik case was transformed from an investigation into a communal narrative

As police probe serious claims of harassment, a parallel story of conspiracy and conversion dominates public discourse