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Assam: Gauhati HC quashes NSA detention of activist Pranab Doley
Doley was arrested in July this year for a protest against a hotel project near Kaziranga, and had been booked under the nefarious National Security Act (NSA) after a court granted him bail; Forum for Social Harmony, AMSU-AIKMS and BAA accuse the Assam government of criminalising land rights activism
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.
Medical corroboration in rape cases not pre-requisite, bail denied to accused: MP HC
The Single Bench has held that delay in filing FIR by the victim is no ground to throw away the prosecutrix’s case and that medical corroboration is not an absolute necessity while assessing gang rape cases.
Books, winter clothes, fresh air for Umar Khalid; but it took a Court to direct police to do so
Khalid had told court he was being treated like a zoo animal in solitary confinement, court tells police to give him what he needs, extended judicial judicial remand till November 20
Bhima Koregaon case: Stan Swamy’s bail plea rejected
83-year-old tribal rights activist Fr S`tan had sought interim bail on health grounds, however the special court rejected the plea
Against the country’s secular structure: Court denies bail to man accused of damaging Masjid
Considering the gravity of allegations, large-scale involvement of the applicant in the North East Delhi riots, court do not find it to be a fit case for grant of bail
Umar Khalid alleges forced solitary confinement by jail authorities
The activist alleged that his request for adequate security had been distorted to extreme proportions by jail authorities who confined him to a cell
GN Saibaba still denied parole, medicine, books, letters from family: AS Vasantha
Saibaba, is yet to get a letter and news printouts his wife Vasantha sent on Oct 1, but she has convinced him to not go on hunger strike for now a she fears for his health
Democracy dies when it’s streets fall silent: Activists on the right to protest
Arundhati Roy, Bezwada Wilson, NiveditaMenon, Nadeem Khan, Prashant Bhushan, Yogendra Yadav, call for debate on policing, protests, role of mainstream media
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Assam: Gauhati HC quashes NSA detention of activist Pranab Doley
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