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‘Deportation Cannot Begin without Nationality Verification’: Union’s Rajubala affidavit clarifies legal limits on executive power

In an affidavit filed in the Rajubala Das case, the Union reaffirms that deportation requires nationality verification, travel documents and acceptance by the receiving State, while setting out the legal framework governing detention pending deportation

Allahabad HC grants bail to Javed Mohammad, alleged “Mastermind” of Prayagraj violence

Javed Mohammad (alias Javed Pump), leader of Welfare Party of India, was deemed as the “mastermind” behind the violence in Prayagraj and his house was demolished by the administration

K’taka HC says downtrodden still unable to do business like “upper caste”

The Court refused to quash a complaint against a man who threatened, harassed and used catiest slurs to intimidate the victim.

Arguments against capital punishment

People will support its abolition if they are exposed to a rational argument

Gauhati HC orders the Assam Govt to rehabilitate the remaining families rendered homeless in eviction drives

100 families remaining out of the 700 evicted will now get a chance to present their case and substantiate their claims for resettlement

Delhi HC Approached for Separate Public Job Vacancies for Transgender Persons

The petitioner, Jane Kaushik, a transgender woman, says she is qualified for a teaching job in a government school but has had to face multiple refusals.

Mohsin Shaikh murder: All of the Hindu Rashtra Sena accused acquitted

The 28-year-old Pune techie was murdered while on his way home after offering namaz at a mosque

DGPs reports flag radical Hindu and Islamist outfits as issues in law and order

The reports which were available on the conference website until January 25, have now been taken down

Orissa HC stalls Collector’s salary for failure to process land compensation pending since 1961

The court order was dismayed to learn that no compensation was paid even 10 years after the petition was filed

21 years later, 14 acquitted for murder in one of the many 2002 Gujarat riots cases

They were accused of killing and burning bodies of 17 Muslims in one of the many incidents of widespread violence in Gujarat in 2002, in the aftermath of the burning of a coach of the Sabarmati Express at Godhra

Bilkis Bano’s plea against remission to convicts could not be heard in SC

Bilkis Bano was 21 years old and five months pregnant when she was gang-raped while fleeing the riots that broke out after the Godhra train burning incident. Her three-year-old daughter was among the seven family members killed.

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