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Allahabad High Court flags surge in “false” conversion firs, seeks accountability from UP government

In a strong rebuke, the Allahabad High Court questions misuse of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021, calls out investigative lapses, and directs state authorities to act against frivolous complaints while protecting the accused and the woman at the centre of the case

Ineligible for Covid bail, undertrial moves SC against Uttarakhand HPC’s rule

“Cannot equate undertrials with convicts”, states his plea

Bombay High Court to hear plea for release of Hany Babu for urgent medical care

Advocate Yug Chaudhry informed Court that diagnosis for Mucormycosis is required as the Prof has an unknown eye infection

Chhattisgarh: Villagers allege police fired, killed peaceful protesters at Sukma security camp

Protests continue outside the camp, while police claim three Maoists were killed during the exchange of fire

J&K: HPC directs provision of legal aid to inmates eligible for temporary bail, parole

The HPC has decided to release convicts who were released last year, for a period of 90 days

UP govt challenges HC order granting bail on apprehension of contracting Covid-19

The Allahabad High Court had granted bail to an accused in a cheating case while observing that it was important to protect an accused from suffering consequences of being infected in prison

Live-in relationship is morally and socially unacceptable: Punjab & Haryana HC

Different judges of the high court in the recent past have passed such regressive orders, that not only go against orders passed by the court in the past, but also contravene precedents laid out by the apex court

UP: Ram Sanehi Ghat mosque demolished despite HC ruling to protected it till May 31

Security is still deployed, “to prevent anyone coming within a mile of where the mosque stood”, reports the Guardian

Medical system in rural Uttar Pradesh is ‘Ram Bharose’: Allahabad HC

The court took exception to the fact that a dead body of one of the patients, who had collapsed in the bathroom and died, was disposed of as unidentified body

Manipur: Journalist, activist post comment on cow dung, charged under NSA

Journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem, activist Erendro Leichombam arrested for social media posts that cow urine, dung doesn't cure Covid-19

Calcutta HC stays bail to Narada sting accused

A CBI court had granted bail to the four arrested in the case on Monday, but later that night, the HC stayed the bail order

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