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Ex-TISS student gets bail as Mumbai Court rejects Maoist link based on ‘suspicion’
Court rejects the prosecution’s attempt to link Abhirup Ashim Paul to Maoist activities, holding that books, slogans and association with a student group could not by themselves establish such a connection
U’khand HC: Children with no internet access cannot be forced to pay tuition fee
Unaided private schools in the state were charging fees and conducting online classes for KG level as well
Gujarat HC gives directions on affordable COVID19 treatment and for starving, helpless migrants
Guj HC goes big, takes cognizance of starving migrants, asks state to regulate fee structure of pvt hospitals
K’taka HC asks state to immediately take decision on payment of fares of migrants
In the precise words of the court, “no one should be deprived of an opportunity to go back to his own State only for the reason that he has no capacity to pay for the transport”
Delhi HC again adjourns petition about police accountability for ‘indiscriminate’ arrests: Justice delayed?
Brinda Karat’s petition urging transparency in arrests and detentions pushed to June 16
Tablighi Jamaat members still under the scanner
Pleas in courts, passport seizures, regime continues to keep a close watch
Ahmedabad violence: Court pulls up cops for charging accused under Sec 307
The magistrate also demanded to know why there was a delay of five days in presenting the accused before a court
Bom HC raps Mumbai Police for using quarantine as preventive detention
Mumbai’s CITU President was picked up from a protest site and kept in quarantine for 14 days without informing him of his COVID19 test results, which came negative
Police asks family for whereabouts of Vernon Gonsalves even as he is lodged in Taloja jail
Gonsalves’s wife, advocate Susan Abraham pens letter alleging harassment by police
Maha govt to release half of its prisoners, as more than 180 COVID cases emerge in Arthur road
This decision was made by the high powered committee which was set up under the SC directive
Guj HC declares Bhupendrasinh Chudasama’s election void
The senior cabinet minister was elected from Dholka constituency in 2017
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