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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
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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