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Allahabad HC quashes NSA detention of Aakriti Chaudhary, questions ‘concocted’ State narrative in Noida workers’ protest case

Court questions arrest chronology, missing video evidence and alleged procedural violations in Noida workers’ protest case  

UP: ‘Unsuitable” to continue as public servants, 3 IPS officer get retirement orders

Inspector General Amitabh Thakur, currently posted as the Joint Director Civil Defence, two others have been retired

SC expresses concern over the possible misuse electoral bonds, reserves its order on the matter

Attorney General KK Venugopal, claims that after electoral bonds were launched in 2018, black money in election funding, has been kept under check

SC directs Param Bir Singh to approach Bombay HC

Singh had moved SC demanding an “unbiased, uninfluenced, impartial and fair investigation” into the allegedly “corrupt malpractices” of Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh

CCTV was not working: Delhi Police to HC in Faizan death case

The incident where the grievously injured young man was forced to sing the national anthem was shot on video and went viral on social media; Faizan's mother had filed a plea seeking a probe into his death 

TN: Special DGP accused of sexual harassment, suspended

The Madras High Court, monitoring the investigation, had urged the government to take action against the accused

Bombay HC refuses to accept compromise affidavit in a sexual assault case

The Bench noted that the aim and objective of Vishakha guidelines will remain defeated if the complainant is coerced to withdraw her complaint

Plea in SC to allow consensual teenage relationships under POCSO Act

The Act is silent on the aspect where two minor individuals enter into a consensual relationship

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

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Allahabad HC quashes NSA detention of Aakriti Chaudhary, questions ‘concocted’ State narrative in Noida workers’ protest case

Court questions arrest chronology, missing video evidence and alleged procedural violations in Noida workers’ protest case  

3,404 SIR Forms Found at Kharghar Xerox Shop: CJP, VFD and BCS demands answers from Maharashtra SEC

The discovery of original voter Enumeration Forms outside official custody, followed by the suspension of five BLOs, raises serious questions over the security and integrity of Maharashtra’s electoral-roll revision process; citizens groups demand a comprehensive inquiry

Adieu Comrade Thankappan – Javed Anand, Roma, Teesta Setalvad

Three associates of D Thankappan, Javed Anand, Roma and Teesta Setalvad pay their tributes to this man of action and intellect who was a leading light in India’s trade union movement. D Thankappan, ailing for some years, passed away early this morning, September 2, at his home in Airoli, New Bombay. He was 87.

Maharashtra’s schools are struggling to survive as students protest, infrastructure crumbles and Marathi-medium institutions disappear

From Adivasi students on hunger strike to Class 10 students demanding teachers, government schools without electricity and internet, and hundreds of schools facing the loss of grant-in-aid, Maharashtra’s education crisis is increasingly visible on the streets

The Ambedkarite Champ: 15-year-old Vandan Sawai defeats chess great Magnus Carlsen

Delhi Class X student beat Magnus Carlsen in an online blitz game after returning from a six-week Europe trip; his parents learnt about the result later from his Chess.com profile

Six-year-old detained during Patna teacher aspirants’ protest, parents allege police assault

Patna Police say the child was ‘rescued’ from a potentially dangerous crowd, while his parents allege that the family was taken to a police station, where they were assaulted and kept for nearly seven hours