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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

Delhi HC again adjourns petition about police accountability for ‘indiscriminate’ arrests: Justice delayed?

​​​​​​​Brinda Karat’s petition urging transparency in arrests and detentions pushed to June 16

Tablighi Jamaat members still under the scanner

Pleas in courts, passport seizures, regime continues to keep a close watch

Ahmedabad violence: Court pulls up cops for charging accused under Sec 307

The magistrate also demanded to know why there was a delay of five days in presenting the accused before a court

Bom HC raps Mumbai Police for using quarantine as preventive detention

Mumbai’s CITU President was picked up from a protest site and kept in quarantine for 14 days without informing him of his COVID19 test results, which came negative

Police asks family for whereabouts of Vernon Gonsalves even as he is lodged in Taloja jail

Gonsalves’s wife, advocate Susan Abraham pens letter alleging harassment by police

Maha govt  to release half of its prisoners, as more than 180 COVID cases emerge in Arthur road

This decision was made by the high powered committee which was set up under the SC directive

Guj HC declares Bhupendrasinh Chudasama’s election void

The senior cabinet minister was elected from Dholka constituency in 2017

Delhi HC grants Dr. Zafarul granted protection from coercive action until next hearing

This order was given in an anticipatory bail application filed by Dr. Khan after he was booked on charged of sedition.

SC reserves order on Arnab Goswami’s petition seeking transfer of probe to CBI  

The Bench tells him to move High Court if he wants to have his FIR quashed in the Bandra migrants case

Delhi Police Special Cell raids Delhi Minorities Commission chairman Dr Zafarul Islam Khan’s home

"As per law Police cannot compel him to go to the police station. That would violate the CrPC," his lawyer Vrinda Grover told the police. A week ago, the Delhi Police had charged Dr Khan with sedition.

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