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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
The State has no religion
Ayodhya Bhumi Pujan provided retrospective legitimisation for Babri Masjid destruction said Sitaram Yechury, Gen Secy, CPI(M)
Fundamental right of reporter to publish news even if not palatable to administration: Calcutta HC
The Court granted anticipatory bail to the journalist who reported on policemen taking bribe and causing accident due to rash driving
Police fuelling Systemic Communalism in Kerala?
Allegations of communal bias in response to and treatment of cases involving Muslims
Draft EIA: K’taka HC extends date for filing objections, restrains Centre from releasing final notification
The court questioned the Centre on why the notification was not published in regional languages
SC grants bail to support persons of Araria rape survivor; calls their arrest totally impermissible
The support persons and the rape survivor were arrested after being found in contempt of court by a lower court and the survivor was granted bail on humanitarian grounds a few days later
GN Saibaba denied permission to attend post funeral ceremonies of dead mother
Jail Superintendent Anup Kumar Kumre tells the media, permission was refused because the former DU Professor is a “different kind of inmate”
Prashant Bhushan contempt case: Activists file intervention application
16 prominent social activists say case will have adverse impact on citizens' Right to Freedom of Speech
Prashant Bhushan contempt case: A mute hearing
The hearing was concluded in-camera which no public access to the conversation between the bench and the counsel
Hope probe focuses on real perpetrators of Delhi violence: Prof Apoorvanand
The Delhi University professor was interrogated by the police in connection with the February 2020 riots
Police probe ordered by NHRC into death threats on journalist: Sultanpur rape case
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