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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

Allahabad HC stays recovery notice against anti-CAA protestor

The HC has kept the hearing for April 20 and awaiting a similar petition in the SC

NRC Assam: Respite for excluded children if parents are in final list

CJP’s IA had secured the order from the SC that children who were excluded from the final NRC list if their parents’ names are in it not be sent to detention centers

AAP’s Amanatullah Khan’s kin beaten by UP police for election win

Khan’s family members reported that the police tortured them and even misbehaved with the women

Illegal Arrest of a penniless Adivasi:  MP HC Court penalises govt officials, orders reparation

The Court used the Jurisprudential concept of ‘Constitutional Tort’, and said that since the State has arrogantly deprived an innocent person of his Liberty, the aggrieved person must be compensated for the loss of it’ Husan, an Adivasi has been granted Rs 5,00,000 as compensation for being deprived of his personal liberty.

Violation of SC directives: NRC final list vanishes from website

Though, the NRC state coordinator has brushed off the sudden disappearance of the data as a technical issue, insiders in the NRC office are of the opinion that this is a deliberate ploy by the present NRC authority

How SC has balanced the right to protest v/s public inconvenience: Shaheen Bagh

The SC’s oral remarks on the indefinite protest militates against its own set jurisprudence

K’taka HC raps admin and police, asks govt to rehabilitate laborers touted as “Bangladeshis”

After demolishing their homes, it was found that the laborers actually belonged to Assam and Telangana

SC slaps fine on states for no reply on community kitchen schemes

Based on a PIL, the SC has imposed a fine of Rs. 5 lakh on each state for non-compliance

Shaheen Bagh in spotlight in SC, court says protest subject to reasonable restrictions

The court also took cognizance of the death of an infant at the protest

Jamia students allegedly attacked by police, again!

The Delhi police allegedly lathi charged students who were staging an anti-CAA-NRC march to the Parliament.

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