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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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Delhi HC again adjourns petition about police accountability for ‘indiscriminate’ arrests: Justice delayed?
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Tablighi Jamaat members still under the scanner
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Ahmedabad violence: Court pulls up cops for charging accused under Sec 307
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Bom HC raps Mumbai Police for using quarantine as preventive detention
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Delhi Police Special Cell raids Delhi Minorities Commission chairman Dr Zafarul Islam Khan’s home
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