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Akola 2023 targeted violence: Police officers must shed communal colours when they put on their uniforms says Supreme Court
The Hindu, New Indian Express and Indian Express all reported that the top court on Thursday, September 11, directed action against police who ignored a teenage Muslim assault victim and eyewitness to murder during the 2023 Akola communal riots; the SC ordered a probe by SIT comprising Muslim and Hindu officers
Supreme Court directs Centre to frame policy on jobs for transgender persons
Centre to form policy to provide reasonable accommodation to transgender people in employment in the establishments within three months under the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019
Bilkis Bano case: SC orders copies of impleading petition to be given to convicts, State of Gujarat
Petitions filed by Subhashini Ali, Revathi Laul and Prof. Roop Rekha Verma, and another by Mahua Moitra; case adjourned for three weeks
SC questions Centre’s decision to just leave minor Rohingya girl at the Myanmar border
The girl’s parents are in Bangladesh and want her back; an NGO has filed application to foster her till she is reunited with her family
Madhya Pradesh: 13-year-old Dalit rape survivor allegedly beaten by police
Girl’s family alleges police forcibly kept the girl overnight at the police station where she was kicked and beaten with belts to pressure her to change her statement
Hijab Ban case: SC wonders if right to dress also makes right to undress a fundamental right
Advocate for Petitioner submits before the court that Secularism does not mean students of only one faith display religion
Religious prayer in Kendriya Vidyalayas: SC allows intervention by Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind
Supreme Court to hear plea against recitation of religious prayers in Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathans next month
Supreme Court to hear pleas challenging constitutional validity of CAA
CJI UU Lalit led bench to hear a batch of over 200 related pleas on September 12
Khwaja Yunus custodial death case: Sessions Court dismisses Asiya Begum’s plea to add four more policemen as accused
Yunus had been allegedly killed in police custody; his mother has been part of a prolonged legal battle to demand justice for him
Umar Khalid bail plea: Prosecution concludes arguments before Delhi HC
Excerpts of Amravati speech read in court; rebuttals to be heard on September 9
‘Astonishing’, Need White Paper on Remission in Bilkis Bano: Justice Madan Lokur
The former justice of the Supreme Court says how the remission came about needs to be closely examined.
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