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Ex-TISS student gets bail as Mumbai Court rejects Maoist link based on ‘suspicion’

Court rejects the prosecution’s attempt to link Abhirup Ashim Paul to Maoist activities, holding that books, slogans and association with a student group could not by themselves establish such a connection

Centre to support Assam government’s affidavit to conduct NRC reverification?

SC had previously shot down the proposal to conduct 10-20 percent reverification

Delhi HC allows HarperCollins to publish book on rape convict Asaram’s case

Publisher will have to add a disclaimer that the book is based on the judgment of a trial court, which is under appeal

No sealed cover submissions in my Court: Justice G. S. Patel

The Bombay High Court judge says that he would not accept sealed cover submissions on the justification that the press is irresponsible.

Lakhan Musafir banished from 5 districts of Gujarat

Order dated September 14, 2020, bad in law, and against principles of natural justice

SC reserves order in Shaheen Bagh protest site eviction case

Petitioner had demanded that protesters be forcibly evicted as they were causing traffic blockage

NBA suggests making code of ethics binding on news channels to strengthen regulation

The self-regulatory body was pulled up by the Supreme Court for not having adequate regulation over electronic media

Sudarshan News cites NDTV’s ‘Hindu terror’ show, pleads for vacation of stay

Suresh Chavhanke filed the additional affidavit seeking that the stay on the broadcast of his communally polarising 'UPSC Jihad' show be lifted

Come back to us on a method to strengthen NBA : SC in Sudarshan News case

At the second consecutive hearing of the petition against Sudarshan News, the apex court observed that the show was insightful, and also raised concern over self-regulation

The era of the SC’s glorious jurisprudence has vanished: Justice AP Shah

Justice Shah delivered a lecture at an event organized to honour Justice Hosbet Suresh and to speak about the decline of the Supreme Court

Brinda Karat asks Police Commissioner to act against communal activity in Shiv Vihar

Non-festive, aggressive processions sloganeering ‘Jai Shri Ram, Har Har Mahadev’ taken out after dark, in sensitive area of North East Delhi

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