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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
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SC: Amendment to SC/ST Act constitutionally valid
These amendments were enacted to reverse the SC judgment of 2018 which had diluted provisions of the Act
How many Birth Certificates digitized across states: Activist files RTI
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Illegal and inhuman: Child rights groups condemn Bidar police’s investigation of children
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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
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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
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