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When Criminal Law Becomes a Weapon: Justice Bhatia’s Reminder on Power, Process and Fairness
In an age where criminal law is increasingly deployed as an instrument of pressure rather than a pursuit of truth, judicial interventions that return us to first principles assume...
SC adjourns plea filed in 2019 seeking criminal action for employing manual scavengers
The plea seeks invoking of charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against employers of manual scavengers, who end up dying on the job
Cutting cake with National Flag icing, not unpatriotic: Madras HC
The court was hearing a plea over a complaint filed for cutting a cake with the representation of the Indian National Flag on it
Chhattisgarh HC seeks State’s reply over woman’s custodial death
The court has also directed the police to provide the post mortem report to her family
NIA court denies bail to Father Stan Swamy
The tribal rights activist was arrested from his house in Ranchi on October 8 for his alleged role in inciting the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence
SC defers plea against State Assemblies anti-CAA resolutions
The top court asked the petitioner NGO to do more research as it did not want to ‘create more problems than solving’
Kerala Police file FIR against Enforcement Directorate team probing gold smuggling case
Team is accused of pressuring key accused Swapna Suresh to falsely implicate CM Pinarayi Vijayan
25 arrests in three months under Madhya Pradesh’s ‘Love Jihad’ law
In all cases, the accused persons are from minority communities, including 15 cases against Muslims and six cases against Christians
Hathras case: Victim’s family and lawyers threatened inside court premises
The High Court has taken note of the affidavit filed by the victim’s family and ordered for an enquiry into the matter within 2 weeks
Madras HC refuses to entertain compromise of accused and complainant in POCSO case
The Court held that in a non-compoundable offence cannot be done away with even if a compromise is reached between the parties
SC to hear plea seeking stay on the sale of electoral bonds on March 24
The petitioners have alleged that the electoral bond scheme increases illegal and illicit funding of political parties
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