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When Family Becomes Custody: Allahabad HC holds adult women’s faith, residence and liberty cannot be placed under parental control
Holding that an alleged unlawful conversion cannot become a licence for private confinement, the Court separates the legality of religious conversion from the legality of detention—and holds the father and Uttar Pradesh State jointly liable for ₹25 lakh in constitutional compensation
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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
Suspension order of accused cops revoked, Khwaja Yunus’s mother moves Bombay HC
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Bom HC directs state to follow ICMR guidelines in temporary prisons; asks to adopt random testing
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Publish Draft EIA in 22 Indian Languages, Delhi HC to Modi Sarkar
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India’s dark history of custodial abuse
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The four are among the 27 people arrested for being a part of a mob that allegedly assaulted the police and pelted stones at them
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