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2020 Delhi Riots: Delhi High Court upholds seven-year sentence for five men in 22-year old Muslim migrant worker’s death

The Court holds that failure to identify who inflicted the fatal injuries does not absolve the accused under Section 149 IPC, relying on evidence of their participation in an armed mob that assaulted the victim, Monish

Brutalising Innocence: A report on police excesses on minors in UP

A fact finding report reveals the horrific details of detention and torture of minors by the UP police

Election card is proof of citizenship: Court

Persons may lie but documents cannot, held the Court

Don’t label anti-CAA protesters ‘traitors’, people bound to defend rights in a democracy: Bombay HC

Drawing on the experiences of Indians non-violently fighting unjust laws under a colonial regime during India’s struggle for Independence, the Court said that an agitation cannot be suppressed only on the ground that people are agitating against the government

Allahabad HC stays recovery notice by UP government, matter pending in SC

Slew of such arbitrary notices had been served by the Adityanath government in December 2019-January 2020, many of whom were on innocent bystanders or peaceful protesters

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

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