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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
UP’s ‘Name and shame ordinance’ against all canons of justice: PIL in Allahabad HC
This is the second PIL against this ordinance to be filed before the High Court
SC decision quashing ST reservation reflects Manuwadi mindset: Review petition
The petition filed by social organisations and activists states that the reservation will undo the wrong that has been meted out to the oppressed for centuries
Rape survivor jailed in Bihar, Human Rights groups write to Patna HC
A lower court judge in Araria had sent the survivor and two women's rights activists helping her to judicial custody after accusing them of 'contempt of court'
Will Delhi Police now handle cases of Hindus arrested for communal riots differently?
Orders “due care and precaution” while arresting, senior officers asked “suitably” guide Investigating Officers (IOs)
Don’t Kill Varavara Rao in Jail!
Family members of the noted Telugu poet say he is incoherent, and his health is deteriorating fast
Foreign attendees of Tablighi Jamaat Markaz pay small fine, may go home soon
Delhi Police say that none of the 956 foreigners were charged with serious crimes, yet Indian Muslims however continue to deal with hate
AMU alumni Sharjeel Usmani arrested for allegedly clashing with cops during anti-CAA protests
Usmani was reportedly arrested by a joint team of the Aligarh police and anti-Terrorism Squad from his home in Azamgarh
Van Gujjar Mustafa Chopra and grandsons secure bail
The elderly member of an indigenous transhumance community had been physically assaulted by policemen and then arrested on trumped up charges!
Gangster Vikas Dubey’s ‘encounter’ reopens debate on extrajudicial killings
He was shot dead enroute to Kanpur a day after he ‘surrendered’ in Madhya Pradesh, and was being brought to Uttar Pradesh
Police not competent to file FIR under sec 188 of IPC: Madras HC
The court relied on a precedent that held that the complaint should come from a public servant and the police can only exercise preventive action
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