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Waqf Act Amendments Partly Stayed: SC blocks government control, backs registration and reforms
CJI Gavai-led bench intervenes narrowly—suspends five-year Islam clause and executive powers over land disputes through interim order, while letting registration mandate and abolition of ‘Waqf by user’ operate
Bombay HC directs Maha gov’t to withdraw pending criminal cases against farmers and social activists
They had been protesting CAA and other government policies; Aurangabad Bench of the HC directs State gov't to file affidavit and submit a report
Hindus as minority: Centre flip-flops on power to notify minority status
Centre now asks the Supreme Court for more time to discuss with state governments the power to notify minority status
Now, jail authorities deny GN Saibaba plastic water bottle!
First the NIA had denied late Fr. Stan Swamy a sipper in Taloja jail, now Nagpur Jail authorities deny the 90 percent physically disabled political dissenter a plastic bottle to drink water
Jahangirpuri violence: Delhi Court refuses bail to eight accused
Court observes that Police accompanied the illegal processions, hence the liability on the part of the concerned officials needs to be fixed
Cruel, diabolic, barbaric, gruesome and inhuman: Allahabad High Court on Lakhimpur Kheri massacre
Court made this observation while denying bail to four Lakhimpur Kheri accused; dismissed the bail pleas based on possibility of tampering of evidence or endangering witnesses
Delhi HC adjourns hearings in bail pleas of Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam
Court grants one week for filing FIR and chargesheet against Imam in Aligarh
UP: Four reports of cops allegedly committing crimes against women!
Two of these instances of brutal violence and assault were against Dalit women, one against a woman from an OBC family
SC dismisses CPI-M’s Shaheen Bagh plea
Court says that it cannot issue orders in such matters, and asked the petitioners to approach the High Court
Bombay High Court quashes FIR against Solapur Journalist
Procedure was not followed as per CrPC., for a public servant wishing to prosecute someone for defamation, says HC
Chennai: Murder charges filed in Custodial Death case against cops
CB-CID arrested two policemen, out of nine summoned, on charges of murder
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Waqf Act Amendments Partly Stayed: SC blocks government control, backs registration and reforms
CJI Gavai-led bench intervenes narrowly—suspends five-year Islam clause and executive powers over land disputes through interim order, while letting registration mandate and abolition of ‘Waqf by user’ operate
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Rights
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Rule of Law
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Rule of Law
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Communalism
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