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Not What the Court Decided: Re-reading the Bombay High Court’s passport judgment

The MEA's recent clarification on passport has centred on a single judicial decision that may not support the sweeping proposition now attributed to it

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.

Nearly 9,000 people participate in signature campaign to demand justice for Bilkis Bano

Feminist groups had sent 8,320 signatures to the Supreme Court Chief Justice on Tuesday; now with 630 new signatures, the tally is now close to 9,000 and growing

Lakhimpur Kheri case: Supreme Court issues notice to UP government on Ashish Mishra’s bail plea

Matter to be heard on September 26; high court had previously dubbed the killings as "cruel and inhuman"

Bilkis Bano case: Convicts’ whereabouts unknown even as SC prepares to hear petitions challenging remission of sentences

Meanwhile, lawyer of convicts claims Centre enabled grant of remission of sentences to 11 convicts

Babri Mosque demolition case: CBI files objections in acquittal matter

Says petitioners don’t have right to appeal as they were not victims

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