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A Terror Case Without Evidence: Allahabad High Court’s ‘heavy heart’ acquittal After 28 Years

A devastating judicial analysis reveals how a mass-casualty blast, a collapsed investigation, and an inadmissible police confession led to the undoing of a decades-old conviction

Delhi Police agrees to release Safoora on humanitarian grounds; HC grants bail

At the last hearing, Delhi police had refused to make an exception for her pregnancy and presented strong grounds for keeping her in custody

Puri Rath Yatra: SC imposes curfew, strict conditions for conduct of festivities

The apex court allows only those who test negative for Covid-19 to take part in Rath Yatra. Meanwhile, Gujarat HC has taken a contrasting stand

No exception for pregnancy: Delhi police on Safoora Zargar’s bail plea

The status report filed by Delhi police alleges that Zargar is behind the ‘nefarious conspiracy’ that led to the Delhi riots and that pregnancy cannot become a consideration in such a heinous crime.

Why higher number of Muslims booked for lockdown violations: Telangana HC

The court asked Hyderabad police to file a fresh report, while observing loopholes in its counter affidavit

Will the Jagannath Rath Yatra be held this year?

The Supreme Court disallowed the yatra on June 18 but further developments in the case point at probable modification of the order

Covid-19: SC asks UP gov’t to inform about quarantine protocol of asymptomatic patients

The court told the state to not put asymptomatic patients in hospital

Karnataka HC grants conditional bail to ‘Bangladeshi’ father-daughter

​​​​​​​They had been kept in judicial custody for over a year, the daughter has a minor child

Sikh man who served langar to protesters, named in Ratan Lal murder chargesheet

The Delhi High Court lawyer had reportedly sold his flat to feed protesters, but now finds his name mentioned as an alleged organiser of protests at Chand Bagh which led to rioting and murder of Head Constable Ratan Lal

CRPF personnel allegedly assault Adivasi villagers in Jharkhand

20 people injured, 7 seriously in West Singhbhum. All were allegedly pressured not to file an FIR.

SC dismisses PIL seeking direction to Centre to approach ICJ against China

The bench headed by the Chief Justice of India refused to entertain the plea, which claimed that coronavirus was biological weapon created by China

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