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Due Process Strengthened: Supreme Court mandates written, language-specific grounds for arrest under special laws and general laws

Building on Pankaj Bansal and Prabir Purkayastha judgements, the Court constitutionalised a uniform standard—every arrest, whether under IPC/BNS or special enactments, must be supported by written grounds communicated in the arrestee’s own language, failing which the arrest stands void

Supreme Court rejects SBI plea for extension in electoral bond case, pulls up the bank for the delay

Rejecting the extension application of SBI the SC has ordered the bank to disclose the details of electoral bonds, including donor and party details, by 12 March

Two cops dismissed for negligence of duty after 3 Muslims, one officer were shot dead by RPF officer

Two Railway Police Force constables have been dismissed in the case of hate killings by an RPF officer where 3 Muslims and one RPF officer were gunned down in a train in July 2023.

On March 5, 18 days after the SC stuck down electoral bond scheme, directing full disclosure of donor details, SBI fails to comply

Monday, March 11, five days after the SBI was supposed to handover the details of donors to Election Commission on March 5, the SC dismisses SBI’s application for extension; it had failed to comply with the February 15 order of the SC

ECI must announce elections only after SBI provides details of corporate purchase of electoral bonds: Ex-Civil servants

In a strongly worded public appeal to the Election Commission of India (ECI), 80 former public servants have argued for a moral and legal compulsion for elections to be held only after SBI makes corporate purchase of electoral bonds public

Cop caught kicking and slapping Muslims during Friday prayer

A disturbing video has recently gone viral from Delhi's Inderpuri area, where the video captures the shocking actions of a police officer kicking and slapping Muslim men engaged in Friday prayers on the road Makki Jama Masjid.

GN Saibaba wheeled out of Nagpur Central Jail on March 7 two days after the Bombay HC resoundingly acquitted him & 5 others in...

Despite all efforts of the Maharashtra government to seek a stay on the acquittal which was refused by the High Court (HC), professor Saibaba was released on March 7. The decade long incarceration of a disabled professor and his colleagues was marked with particular insensitivity by the Maharashtra jail authorities who denied him basic essentials; he had to even go on a hunger strike to push for the removal of CCTV cameras from the toilet and bathing area and demanding reading/writing materials.

Delhi violence 2020: 4 years on, the shadow of violence lives on

It has been 4 years since the north east Delhi communal violence took place. However, the court case has seen a rocky road with several acquittals, with the court rapping the Delhi police for “shoddy investigation”, amidst all of this, the casualty continue to be the survivors of the violence.

Supreme Court: Directs UP government to comply with directions and implement wholistic reparations

After SC pulls up the state over non-compliance of its orders, the state government submits that it has started the counselling process for students in Muzaffarnagar slapping case

Farmers protest: “The law is clear on internet suspension” Court asks state government to submit internet suspension orders

Punjab and Haryana Court direct both state governments to submit orders for internet suspension, enquires about post mortem report for farmer who died during the protests

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