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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 violence: HC transfers Judge who criticised Delhi Police’s investigation

Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav had, in the past few months, pulled up many officials of Delhi Police for their callous approach to investigation, and had in some cases even granted bail doubting credibility of police witnesses

Lakhimpur Kheri: Ashish Mishra still not arrested 

FIR says he was in the vehicle that mowed down farmers, and there were several eye-witnesses

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

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