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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
CAA related violence: Finding no evidence, Bihar police drops 5 names from chargesheet
Police in Aurangabad has registered a case against 44 people in the anti-CAA protests that allegedly turned violent on December 21, 2019
Preserve DNA samples, Videograph post mortems : Delhi HC to hospitals
Image Courtesy: ommcomnews.comIn path breaking directives, the Delhi High...
Man hailing from WB declared foreigner in Assam!
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Gauhati HC upholds Tinsukia FT’s order, does not accept land documents as proof
Gauhati HC paves way for bail for Assam man declared foreigner
Mohammed Iddrish Ali had been lodged in the Jorhat detention camp after a foreigners’ tribunal declared him foreigner
SC directs Delhi HC to hear plea of riot-affected people for FIRs in hate speech cases on Friday
10 riot affected people had moved a petition demanding filing of FIRs against Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma
SC pulls up Harsh Mander for alleged remarks against it
The activist had allegedly said that he had no faith in the apex court in a viral video. Court has sought video transcripts.
Do Indian Courts have no power to intervene when lives are at stake?
The Chief Justice of India SA Bobde’s comments last...
Delhi violence fueled by hate spread on Whatsapp groups
Many groups created on Feb 23-24 to spread hate
Legal services, access to justice for all
The National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) has been constituted under the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 to provide free Legal Services to the weaker sections of the society and to organise Lok Adalats for amicable settlement of disputes.Post the Delhi 2020 violence, it is paramount that citizens are aware of the free legal services that are available to them. Here is an information booklet of free legal services provided by Delhi State Legal Services Authority as well as a form to lodge FIRs which is important in the claim for compensation process. As the death toll rises this will help all those involved in the process for relief and rehabilitation.
Legal help a priority as Police turned Perpetrator instead of Protector: Delhi
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