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Two FIRs, Four Days In: Pune sees first use of Maharashtra’s controversial anti-conversion law
Pune police invoke the new law against a man accused of targeting a minor and an OCI cardholder accused of religious inducement
Transfer Hany Babu to Breach Candy hospital by tomorrow: Bombay High Court
Court speaks to Hany Babu on phone, asks about treatment, says his family be permitted to communicate with him, doctors
Bombay HC sets up video call with Father Stan Swamy on May 21
It has also directed JJ Hospital’s Dean to constitute a committee of experts to examine the 84-year old’s health
Ineligible for Covid bail, undertrial moves SC against Uttarakhand HPC’s rule
“Cannot equate undertrials with convicts”, states his plea
Bombay High Court to hear plea for release of Hany Babu for urgent medical care
Advocate Yug Chaudhry informed Court that diagnosis for Mucormycosis is required as the Prof has an unknown eye infection
Chhattisgarh: Villagers allege police fired, killed peaceful protesters at Sukma security camp
Protests continue outside the camp, while police claim three Maoists were killed during the exchange of fire
J&K: HPC directs provision of legal aid to inmates eligible for temporary bail, parole
The HPC has decided to release convicts who were released last year, for a period of 90 days
UP govt challenges HC order granting bail on apprehension of contracting Covid-19
The Allahabad High Court had granted bail to an accused in a cheating case while observing that it was important to protect an accused from suffering consequences of being infected in prison
Live-in relationship is morally and socially unacceptable: Punjab & Haryana HC
Different judges of the high court in the recent past have passed such regressive orders, that not only go against orders passed by the court in the past, but also contravene precedents laid out by the apex court
UP: Ram Sanehi Ghat mosque demolished despite HC ruling to protected it till May 31
Security is still deployed, “to prevent anyone coming within a mile of where the mosque stood”, reports the Guardian
Medical system in rural Uttar Pradesh is ‘Ram Bharose’: Allahabad HC
The court took exception to the fact that a dead body of one of the patients, who had collapsed in the bathroom and died, was disposed of as unidentified body
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