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After Five Years in Jail, Bail Still Barred for Two: Supreme Court denies bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in Delhi riots case

Holding that the UAPA’s elevated statutory threshold continues to apply, the Court says Khalid and Imam stand on a “qualitatively different footing”, while granting conditional bail to five co-accused after more than five years of incarceration

SC to hear urgent petitions against UP demolitions today

Court to hear two separate intervention applications filed by Jamiat-Ulema-i-Hind, seeking a stay on the spate of demolitions in Saharanpur, Prayagraj, and Kanpur

Ranchi violence: Images of alleged rioters released, then taken down by Jharkhand Police

Earlier the governor of the state had given the go ahead to make public identities of the alleged rioters

Gyanvapi case: VVSS demands FIR against mosque authorities

Plea alleging AIM allegedly damaged structure of temple inside mosque premises will be heard on June 23

Friday protests: More people booked for unlawful assembly

Uttarakhand, Karnataka and Bengaluru together report 17 arrests for protesting without permission

UP’s bulldozing atrocities, take suo motu action, CJI Ramanna urged

Former Judges and advocates write to CJI Ramanna violence on protestors and those in police custody following protests against certain objectionable remarks made by BJP spokespersons

If Sedition goes, so must criminalising provisions of UAPA: CCG

The group of former Civil Servants issue detailed analysis in an Open Statement on the Sedition Provision in the Indian Penal Code

Take immediate cognisance of illegal demolition of Parveen Fatima’s home: Petition to CJ Allahabad HC

Petition, likely to be heard tomorrow, appeals for immediate intervention due to the grossly illegal act of the demolition; urges commensurate reparation for loss, harassment and indignity

Allahabad HC refuses to quash FIR against Alt News Founder Mohammed Zubair

Fact checker Mohammed Zubair has been booked for allegedly calling three Hindu Seers ‘Hate Mongers’ on Twitter

Nagaland Killings: Police file case against 30 security personnel

The personnel belonging to the 21 Para (Special Forces) had opened fire upon miners belonging to the Konyak tribe in December

SC must apply principle of continuing mandamus to all basic rights violations: Illegal Demolitions

Responding to Illegal Bulldozer Raj, the doctrine of an unconstitutional state of affairs

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