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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
Karnataka CM invokes UAPA against Bengaluru rioters
State Govt may ban PFI, SDPI; Cabinet meeting on August 20, around 52 FIRs filed, 264 arrested, prohibitory orders extended till Aug 18
INVESTIGATION: The Missing Cows of Gujarat
How Cow Protection Laws have failed to protect the animal in the state
Kidnapping, rape, torture, murder; just another long weekend in Uttar Pradesh
Lawlessness engulfs UP as child raped, tortured, killed; Dalit teen raped, tortured; and Dalit pradhan shot dead, all since Friday!
Parliament has remained a ghost town since March 2020: Justice AP Shah
The former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court addressed the inaugural session of an online Janta Parliament
Delhi Police complicit in February 2020 violence: Polis Project
Report slams police for manufacturing evidence and abusing power to selectively target and frame human rights defenders
SC: Prashant Bhushan held guilty for contempt of court [full judgement]
The Court will hear Bhushan on his sentence at the next hearing on August 20
SC holds Prashant Bhushan guilty of contempt; next hearing to decide sentence
This judgment came in the suo moto case against the senior advocate for posting tweets about the court and the Chief Justice of India
SC petition challenging criminal contempt withdrawn
Petitioners denied liberty to approach the apex court again, but are at liberty to file petition before HC
J&K: 4G will be restored on trial basis in two districts for limited period
This submission was made in SC after the court pushed the Centre to make a decision on restoration of 4G
Officers investigating Bhima Koregaon, NE Delhi riots get Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence
Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation, 2020, winners include Dy Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Rajesh Deo,Vikram Khalate, SP, NIA,
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