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The Guardians of the Ballot: Supreme Court hearing the legality of executive primacy in ECI appointments
Across two days of intense legal arguments, the Supreme Court scrutinising the 2023 Act governing the appointment of Election Commissioners, as petitioners argued that replacing the Chief Justice of India with a Union Minister creates a "Home Umpire" system, while the Bench questioned the limits of parliamentary power, counsel warned that executive dominance over the "referee" of democracy threatens the basic structure of free and fair elections
CBI chargesheet confirms brutal torture on Jeyaraj and Bennicks
The CBI looked into material evidence from the Santhakulam PS and confirmed the use of wooden lathis by police officers.
Plea in Delhi HC seeks regulating news channels from broadcasting content on communal disharmony
Plea moved in the Delhi High court after right wing news channel Sudarshan TV's show Bindas Bol called Tanishq ad ‘advertisement jihad’
Bilkis Bano case: Is the Government trying to hoodwink the SC on compensation?
The 2002 riot-survivor alleges that despite repeated directions of the SC she has not been given her proper dues
CRPF to provide protection to victims family in Hathras case: SC
The 3 Judge Bench also directed the HC to look into all aspects of the case as raised in the PIL and intervention applications and erase all mention of the identity of the victim and her family from the previous High Court order and to wait for the CBI investigation to finish before thinking about transferring the trial to Delhi.
Allahabad HC to monitor probe in Hathras case: SC
The apex court also directed that all mention of victim’s identity as well as her family be removed from the HC order
Right to free speech does not mean a licence to promote hate speech: Editors Guild of India
Guild tells Republic TV to behave responsibly, asks police to ensure investigation does not become a tool to suppress media rights
No proof for UAPA charges, accused deserves bail: Delhi HC
The court observed that the investigating agency’s report does not disclose the commission of UAPA offences except some bald statements of the witnesses to keep Faizan in jail.
Act is being misused against innocent persons: Allahabad HC on UP law against cow slaughter
The High Court was hearing the bail plea of a man who was accused of taking a cow for slaughter
NRI quota in NLU are dubious, ‘reservation for elite’: Orissa HC
In a pathbreaking judgement, a Division Bench of the Orissa High has observed that the NRI/NRI Sponsored quotas are an affront to meritorious kids; and a dubious category of quota is like ‘reservation for the elite’ and hence unconstitutional
Death Penalty for Rape: Karnataka HC
Observing that an attack on anybody’s daughter is an attack on ‘our own daughter’, the division bench made this suggestion keeping in mind the issue of women’s safety, to curb this menace in the society, as rape is a ‘crime against the entire society’ and not just the victim.
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