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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
How many Birth Certificates digitized across states: Activist files RTI
Saket Gokhale demands answers from MeitY to gauge extent of document digitization in the run up to the NRIC
Anti-Shaheen Bagh plea to be heard in SC on Monday
SC deferred hearing the plea as Delhi election is scheduled to take place on February 8 and court did not want to influence it.
Illegal and inhuman: Child rights groups condemn Bidar police’s investigation of children
They condemned the interrogation of children and the charges of sedition slapped on parent and authorities
Why no FIR filed against Anurag Thakur, Parvesh Verma: Court asks Delhi Police
Brinda Karat had moved court after written complaints to SHO and Commissioner failed to elicit any response
Did UP Police lathi-charge women anti-CAA protesters in Azamgarh?
Women were holding Shaheen Bagh style sit-in protest, when male police officers allegedly rained lathis on them
Chinmayanand granted bail, did judge shame survivor?
Allahabad HC order says it was a “complete matter of quid pro quo”, raises questions over survivor’s silence.
Election Commission fires Delhi DCP Chinmoy Biswal
The action by the EC came after repeated incidents of shootings at CAA protesters in the capital
SC extends power to grant anticipatory bail till completion of trial
Appellate or superior court also granted power to consider the correctness of the order granting anticipatory bail at the behest of the State or investigating agency.
AIMPLB objects to SC interference in religious matters
Entry of women into mosques is now being discussed in court among other rights of women in Islam
Bhima-Koregaon case transferred to NIA to compromise independent probe: Front Line Defenders
The organization also said that the case was transferred so that the Maha government couldn’t carry out a review of the inquiry
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