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Gauhati High Court questions allotment of 3000 Bighas of land to private cement company in Assam

Behind the 3,000-bigha allotment to Mahabal Cement lies a decades-old conflict over customary rights, ecological safeguards, and Sixth Schedule protections

Bhima Koregaon Case: Mahesh Raut, youngest accused, granted bail by the Bombay HC!

After 5 years of incarceration, court grants bail as Section 16, 17, 18 of UAPA not made out, order stayed for one week as NIA seeks time to file appeal with the Supreme Court

With Delhi Violence Cases Caving in, Who Will Fix Police Accountability for Lying on Oath?

In over 10 orders, courts have raised serious doubts on the credibility of witness statements. In most of the cases, the prosecution witnesses were police personnel.

Kerala High Court bans RSS arms training in temple premises

The court’s orders follows a series of steps and circulars issued by the Travanore Devaswam Board around the activities in the Sarkara Devi temple in the Thiruvananthapuram district.

Gyanvapi, Mathura: Apex Court order not to entertain Mughal rulers’ ‘actions’ ignored

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Supreme Court shields Editors Guild of India after multiple FIRs filed for Manipur Reportage

After multiple FIRs filed against the EGI for a fact-finding report conducted in Manipur last August Supreme Court's judgement comes as a relief for press freedoms in India.

Karnataka HC: ‘Humanistic approach to be adopted to ensure that convicts maintain connection with civil society’

Convict granted furlough of 7 days by HC to attend daughter’s Nikah, bench opines that conviction and imprisonment does not render the convict destitute of all liberty & dignity

Madras Bar Association urges return to original names of India’s criminal laws: Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita

In a resolution passed at the an extraordinary general body meeting of the Madras Bar Association, advocates have claimed that the names of the three newly introduced bills on criminal laws violates the spirit of the Constitution of India

The ‘Fascist BJP, Down’ slogan not an offence: Madras HC quashes FIR against academic

Five years ago, in 2018, research scholar Lois Sofia had raised the slogan at the Thoothukudi airport and in a flight which had Tamilisai Soundararajan, who is now governor of Telangana and Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, and was then TN BJP chief.

SC transfers CBI cases related to Manipur violence to Assam, asks Gauhati HC CJI to choose trial judges

The Supreme Court on Friday said the trial in the Manipur violence cases being probed by the CBI will take place in neighbouring Assam and asked the Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court to nominate one or more judicial officers to deal with the matters.

Duty of GOI to ensure that innocent fishermen are not punished: SC

The perennial tragedy of innocent fishworkers from India and Pakistan, being punished and jailed, for no crime but that they, by virtue of their work, sometimes enter the other country’s water space, has not been effectively mitigated for decades; the SC however dismissed the petition since it involves another country outside its jurisdiction

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Gauhati High Court questions allotment of 3000 Bighas of land to private cement company in Assam

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