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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”

Sanjiv Bhatt case: SC adjourns matter for 6 weeks

Ex IPS officer who accused Prime Minister Modi of complicity during the 2002 Gujarat pogrom, has been in jail for over 2 years in an alleged custodial torture case

BREAKING: SC stays Bombay HC’s controversial POCSO judgment

The judgment had held that skin to skin contact is necessary to qualify as an offence of sexual assault under POCSO

Youth Bar Association petitions SC against Bombay High court’s POCSO judgment

The Bombay High Court has recently held that skin to skin/ direct physical contact without disrobing a minor will not constitute sexual assault under POCSO Act

SC allows declared foreigner to file review petition before Guwahati HC first

The court stated that she had liberty to approach the apex court again if favourable order not granted in review

Bom HC seeks inquiry documents in custodial death case of life convict found hanging in cell

A suicide note was allegedly found lodged in the victim’s stomach during post mortem, exposing custodial torture 

National commissions for women and child rights decry Bom HC POCSO judgment

The two commissions have taken cognisance of the controversial judgment and have called for an appeal against it

Why such exorbitant amounts sought in bonds and sureties from farmers: Allahabad HC asks State 

The court took up the instant petition and asked the district authorities of Sitapur district to explain the reason behind the orders issued

Such people must not be spared: MP HC on Munawar Faruqui’s bail plea

The Single-judge Bench of the High court has reserved its orders on the comedian and his co-accused’s bail applications

Karnataka HC restrains Centre & NIC from sharing Aarogya Setu data

The Division Bench noted that prima facie there was no informed consent of the users for sharing data collected under the app

Love Jihad case: SC refuses to entertain UP Govt’s plea to transfer petition from HC to SC 

Uttar Pradesh Government wanted the pleas to be heard along with the two petitions pending in the top court on which notice has already been issued on January 6

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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”

Delhi court orders FIR against Abhijit Iyer Mitra for sexually abusive posts targeting women journalists

Court finds tweets “sexually coloured,” prima facie intended to outrage modesty; directs police probe into X account and devices

From Cow Slaughter to “Public Order”: Allahabad High Court’s expanding use of preventive detention

Through detailed reliance on fear, timing, intelligence inputs, and administrative response, the Court stretches “public order” to justify preventive detention—raising difficult questions about liberty, evidence, and constitutional limits

From FIRs to “Corporate Jihad”: How the TCS Nashik case was transformed from an investigation into a communal narrative

As police probe serious claims of harassment, a parallel story of conspiracy and conversion dominates public discourse