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Not What the Court Decided: Re-reading the Bombay High Court’s passport judgment

The MEA's recent clarification on passport has centred on a single judicial decision that may not support the sweeping proposition now attributed to it

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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