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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

Bidar court says school play not seditious, what does it imply?

The court made this observation while granting anticipatory bail in the case and also dismissed other offences laid out in the case

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!

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.

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