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Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

Uttarakhand HC recognises difference between Hate Speech and Free Speech

Refusing bail to Jitendra Tyagi alias Waseem Rizvi, the Uttarakhand HC has balanced the right to individual liberty and a community’s right to live with security and dignity

Delhi Violence: Court dismisses Gulfisha Fatima, Tasleem Ahmed’s bail pleas

Ahmed and Fatima, with several other activists, students and lawyers, have been booked under the UAPA, in the infamous FIR 59/2020

Delhi HC allows re-opening Nizamuddin Markaz for Shab-E-Baraat

The High Court bench observed that the management will ensure proper social distancing guidelines and does not deserve exhaustive conditions for re-opening

Delhi Violence: Ishrat Jahan granted bail in wider conspiracy case

The advocate and political activist has been languishing behind bars for 25 months

HC grants bail to former IPS officer Amitabh Thakur

Arrested on August 27, 2021, after a rape victim died by suicide, accusing him of protecting accused, BSP MP Atul Rai

SC slams State, issues notice for protection of witnesses in Ashish Mishra case

UP state to ensure witness protection and file counter affidavit by March 24, 2022

Walkouts, objections, after Karnataka HC verdict on Hijab, but BJP netas hail it

Students of a Govt PU college in Karnataka walked out in protest, boycotting classes and exams as soon as the Karnataka high court pronounced its verdict

Jitendra Tyagi’s Dharam Sansad hate speech intended to wage war: Uttarakhand High Court

The Court said that the freedom of speech is not an absolute right and is subject to limitations contained in Article 19(2) of the Constitution

SC to hear plea challenging Ashish Mishra’s bail tomorrow

Ever since he was enlarged on bail, his supporters have grown bolder and even brutally attacked an eye-witness in the Lakhimpur-Kheri massacre

BREAKING: Wearing of Hijab not essential religious practice: Karnataka HC

The court’s judgement therefore did not enable lifting of the virtual ban on hijabs in Karnataka’s public education institutions

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While the incident reportedly took place on April 26, it took sectional media and social media coverage for the Bareilly police to finally admit that the beating to death of Maulana Tausif Raza Manzari was a targeted attack, not an accident on May 1; his wife provided details of a call to her from the dead cleric where he narrated he was under attack

Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

Malegaon 2006 Blast Case: Bombay High Court rejects NIA’s ‘alternate narrative’, holds prosecution built on contradictions and inadmissible evidence

Holding that “diagonally opposite” narratives by investigative agencies cannot sustain a trial, the Court finds the NIA’s case rooted in retracted statements, hearsay material, and a legally impermissible reinvestigation—bringing the prosecution to a “dead end”