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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...

Intimacies of marriage private, can’t be affected by matters of faith: SC

The court once again upheld the right to marry a person of choice, while holding right to privacy paramount

Mechanism for faster disposal of parole pleas needed: P&H High Court

The court was hearing a petition against inordinate delay in deciding parole plea in a prison in Punjab

Guj HC orders police protection to inter-faith couple wishing to solemnize marriage

In the Habeas corpus petition filed by the man, it was alleged that the woman was being illegally confined and was not permitted to use her cell phone

Delhi Court denies bail to accused in Suleman murder case

Suleman Yusuf was brutally murdered by an alleged riotous mob during the Delhi Riots last year

SC rejects Akhil Gogoi’s bail plea in UAPA case

The peasant activist was arrested in connection with anti-citizenship protests in 2019

UP: Charges filed against cop for custodial rape, after NHRC follows up

Departmental action has also been instituted against the then Additional Superintendent of Police and the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Balrampur 

Rakhbar Khan case: District court refuses to transfer mob lynching trial

The victim’s mother has said that she has no trust in the current trial as the accused openly told her that case will be decided in their favour

Anti CAA protests: Gauhati HC denies bail to two booked under UAPA

The High Court Bench ruled that burning down of railway stations and vandalism constitutes a “terrorist act”

MJ Akbar vs Priya Ramani: Pronouncement of judgment deferred till Feb 17

Akbar had filed a criminal defamation complaint against Ramani when she levelled sexual misconduct charges against him on Twitter

Notice publication under SMA to verify credibility of persons: Centre to Delhi HC

A plea filed in the Delhi High Court has sought the setting aside of some Special Marriage Act provisions as it violates privacy

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