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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
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
Manipur: Journalist, activist post comment on cow dung, charged under NSA
Journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem, activist Erendro Leichombam arrested for social media posts that cow urine, dung doesn't cure Covid-19
Calcutta HC stays bail to Narada sting accused
A CBI court had granted bail to the four arrested in the case on Monday, but later that night, the HC stayed the bail order
EXCLUSIVE: Are Varanasi police trying to create communal tension?
While citizens are trying to protect themselves from the on-going health crisis, Muslim communities have condemned police for fabricating Hindu-Muslim conflict, claim Bhojubeer residents
Our Constitution does not permit such liberal use of NSA: Justice Govind Mathur
The retired judge and former Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court spoke about a range of issues from role of judiciary to post retirement appointments of judges to curtailment of civil liberties
Gauhati HC seeks info on female declared foreigners and their children in Detention Camps
The court revived its suo moto petition from last year to take stock of Covid situation in prisons
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