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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

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

Krishna Janmabhoomi: Court reserves orders on whether petition against Shahi Idgah is maintainable

Suit had been filed to remove the Shahi Idgah built alongside the Katra Keshav Dev temple and return the entire parcel of land to the temple trust

Use of loudspeakers not a fundamental right: Allahabad HC

Court dismisses Petition by holding it as ‘patently misconceived’

State of UP habitually inactive, non-compliant with directions, unless contempt is filed: SC

Court's observations in connection with Allahabad HC’s order summoning top State officials including the Chief Secretary and CMO officials in a habeas corpus case; SC stays the order

Major arms haul in Saurashtra

Gujarat ATS nabs 24 people, seizes 54 weapons that were allegedly sourced from MP

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