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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

Why is Delhi Police using anti-terror law against Jamia Milia Islamia scholars?

Shifa-Ur-Rehman, Jamia Alumni Association President, charged under UAPA, sent to 10 days police remand for further interrogation

Compensate for denial of timely inquiry by right forum in sexual harassment case of ex-RAW employee: SC to UoI

The court held this to be a violation of fundamental rights of the petitioner

Can harsher punitive measures as per ordinance amending Epidemic Disease Act be misused?

Also are these new punishments in line with existing criminal laws?

Lockdown impact: Distraught mothers, dead babies and more

Due to the ill-planned lockdown, many have suffered indescribable distress and continue to do so

35 Bru refugees crossover to Tripura from Mizoram amid lockdown booked

They are now under in quarantine at a hostel in Kanchanpur

How did two Delhi Policemen decide to ‘ban’ azaan on their own?

Image Courtesy:jansatta.comDisciplinary Action is being taken against the erring...

SC grants Arnab Goswami protection from coercive action for three weeks

The news anchor had blatantly communalised the reportage of the Palghar lynching case on his show and alleged the involvement of the Congress party in it

Kerala HC calls bail condition requiring cash deposit in PM CARES, improper and unjust

Interestingly, a similar condition was imposed by Jharkhand High Court last week

5 to 7 years in jail, hefty fine for attacking healthcare workers

Causing damage to property is now also made an offence under the Epidemic Diseases Act

Right to dissent is at the core of democracy

Do not isolate and target students, unite as a nation: Civil society condemns Delhi Police for falsely implicating students and activists in Delhi riot cases

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