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Judicial Pushback against Cow Vigilantism: Allahabad HC flags arbitrary FIRs, demands accountability from top officials

The Court exposes the way a regulatory law has become a system of targeted persecution of minorities through arbitrary FIRs under the 1955 law while ignoring the Supreme Court’s binding directives to prohibit group violence

Bilkis Bano case: Remission of convicts’ sentences challenged before SC

Advocate Aparna Bhat has sought an urgent listing for tomorrow

Gyanvapi case: Has the mosque committee’s new lawyer backed out?

Hearing to continue today in district court; AIM reiterates mosque is Waqf property

Teesta Setalvad bail: SC issues notice to State of Gujarat

Court to consider on Thursday matter pertaining to interim relief while bail remains pending before Gujarat HC

Bilkis Bano case: NHRC to discuss release of convicts?

The Commission had previously aided the survivor in seeking justice

Stay in Mumbai, No Gathering Visitors at Home, Don’t Contact Co-Accused: Varavara Rao Bail Terms

The court has asked the octogenarian poet-activist to furnish a fresh bond of Rs 50,000 with two solvent sureties in the like amount.

A very bad precedent has been set: Judge who convicted 11 men in Bilkis Bano case

Rights groups and legal luminaries raise important questions about provisions of remission policy

Free Teesta Setalvad: Noam Chomsky, American academics write to Supreme Court

Indian rights groups continue to hold solidarity meetings, demand Setalvad’s immediate release

Delhi violence case: Court penalises Prosecution for irrelevant witnesses

Court imposed costs worth Rs 5,000 on the Prosecution for disrespecting time of the court and public exchequer’s funds

Bhima Koregaon case: SC directs NIA court to decide on framing charges within three months

Court also directs that the trial of Vernon Gonsalves be segregated from that of other absconding accused

Lakhimpur Kheri: Farmers begin 75-hour protest demanding Ajay Mishra’s sacking

Mishra’s son Ashish, is a key accused in the killings of farmers in October last year; Ashish is out on bail, Mishra is still a Union Minister

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Judicial Pushback against Cow Vigilantism: Allahabad HC flags arbitrary FIRs, demands accountability from top officials

The Court exposes the way a regulatory law has become a system of targeted persecution of minorities through arbitrary FIRs under the 1955 law while ignoring the Supreme Court’s binding directives to prohibit group violence

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