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Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

HRD Jeganathan allegedly killed for acting against illegal stone quarry, NHRC moved

In the last of several attacks on environmental activists in this part of Tamil Nadu, the environment activist was killed in a road accident that, according to a HRD Forum, was engineered to kill the activist for effectively speaking up against an illegal stone quarry and successfully getting it sealed on Independence Day

Ex-LU VC, Roop Rekha Verma stands as bail surety for journalist, Siddique Kappan

For ten days, getting someone to stand as surety had proven difficult for the family of Kappan

Urgent Medical Attention and bail for student activist, Atiq-ur-Rehman: Citizens

A Statement by Concerned Citizens and Representatives of Civil Liberties’ Organizations

Elgar Parishad case: Bombay court rejects Hany Babu’s bail plea

In his plea, Babu said that while the NIA cited a letter detailing a conspiracy to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi as evidence, the alleged letter did not incriminate him.

Gyanvapi case: Petitioner moves caveat before Allahabad High Court

Rekha Pathak, one of the four Hindu women petitioners in the Shringar Gauri case has asked for the right to oppose application by mosque committee

The Challenge to Places of Worship Special Provisions Act, 1991 is Misconceived

Response to Ashwani Kumar Upadhyay’s petition before the Supreme Court

Gyanvapi: Mosque Panel May Move HC, Hindu Plaintiffs Term Verdict as ‘Foundation Stone’ of Temple

Advocate Akhlaque Ahmad, representing the mosque committee, told reporters that he and his team would review the 2,400-page judgment and then make a decision on future course of action.

Re-evaluate premature release policy for convicts serving life terms: SC to UP gov’t

Court ordered the UP government to consider releasing qualified life offenders covered under its 2018 policy within four months in an objective and transparent manner, with priority to elderly and ill inmates

Marital Rape: Supreme Court to hear batch of petitions on September 16

Bench to tag together all similar petitions against the split verdict of Delhi High Court bench on the marital rape exception for the next hearing

SC seeks Centre’s response to petitions challenging CAA

States of Assam and Tripura to file separate responses; matter to be heard on October 31

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Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

Malegaon 2006 Blast Case: Bombay High Court rejects NIA’s ‘alternate narrative’, holds prosecution built on contradictions and inadmissible evidence

Holding that “diagonally opposite” narratives by investigative agencies cannot sustain a trial, the Court finds the NIA’s case rooted in retracted statements, hearsay material, and a legally impermissible reinvestigation—bringing the prosecution to a “dead end”

Delhi court orders FIR against Abhijit Iyer Mitra for sexually abusive posts targeting women journalists

Court finds tweets “sexually coloured,” prima facie intended to outrage modesty; directs police probe into X account and devices

From Cow Slaughter to “Public Order”: Allahabad High Court’s expanding use of preventive detention

Through detailed reliance on fear, timing, intelligence inputs, and administrative response, the Court stretches “public order” to justify preventive detention—raising difficult questions about liberty, evidence, and constitutional limits

From FIRs to “Corporate Jihad”: How the TCS Nashik case was transformed from an investigation into a communal narrative

As police probe serious claims of harassment, a parallel story of conspiracy and conversion dominates public discourse