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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

Rights-based approach to abortion: The need for legislative reforms

Inconsistent court rulings leave women facing a confusing and unfair legal battle for safe abortion in India.

Bihar: RJD’s petition booth capturing and rigging at Munger dismissed by SC

The Supreme Court has directed RJD to take the matter up with the Patna High Court after RJD’s Anita Kumari filed her petition claiming that Bihar’s Munger has witnessed bogus voting, booth capturing, and prevention of backward castes from voting.

Delhi High Court grants statutory bail to Sharjeel Imam in alleged incendiary speech case

The bench also critiqued trial court’s conduct and said that nothing could have disentitled the accused from seeking relief under Section 436-A of CrPC

Interpreting the precedent in Vernon in favour of the State, Umar Khalid’s bail plea rejected by Karkardooma Sessions Court

While rejecting the second bail application of Khalid, the court noted that no ‘deep analysis’ of the facts of the case can be undertaken at this stage

Examining Jurisprudential Shifts: The Evolution of Bail Provisions Under PMLA – Part II”

In our second piece on bail under PMLA, we focus on important developments in 2023-24

BJP Ads Ban Row: SC refused to interfere with HC order restraining BJP from derogatory ads against TMC

“Your rival is not your enemy” the vacation bench of Supreme Court observed while dismissing the plea filed by BJP against the Calcutta High Court order restrained BJP for publishing derogatory & MCC violative ads against TMC

SC directs Centre to deport 17 foreigners detained in Assam Detention Centre

Priority should be given to deport 4 persons who have spent more than 2 years in the Detention Centre – the bench directs the Central Govt

Activist Medha Patkar convicted in defamation case filed by Delhi LG VK Saxena after 23 years

The Metropolitan Court held that Patkar's actions were deliberate and malicious, aimed at tarnishing Saxena's good name; arguments on sentence to be held on May 30

The role of Police in Pre-Poll, During Poll and Post-Poll: What ECI’s Handbook for Police Officers and RP Act 1951 says?

All the officers and personnel from State Police and CAPF deployed for election duties, shall be under superintendence, direction and control of the ECI till the completion of Election under section 28A of the Representation of People Act, 1951

Supreme Court refuses to issue direction compelling ECI to disclose Form 17 C data owing to ongoing elections

The bench opts to keep the petition pending in the Supreme Court till after vacations; the petitioners had sought for court’s direction to the ECI to upload polling station-wise voter turnout data on its website within 48 hours of conclusion of polling

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