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After 772 Days in Detention, Ajabha Khatun Returns Home: CJP helps secure her release

Ajabha Khatun’s conditional release brings relief to her family, while her pending legal case and her plea for another detainee underline the fight that remains

Manual Scavenging: Eradicate the practice, ensure effective rehabilitation, scholarship, compensation, uphold dignity and liberty says SC

Supreme Court bench issues detailed directions to the Union and state government to implement the provisions of Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013, conduct necessary surveys, co-ordinate with Commissions

Manipur High Court: Right to cast vote an integral part of Article 19(1)(a), affirms voters right to know criminal antecedents

As legal status of the right to vote remains ambiguous, a judicial pronouncement of a constitutional court declaring the same as a fundamental right is the need of the hour

“Can have communal overtones’: Delhi High Court turns down permission for “Muslim Mahapanchayat” on Oct 29

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to grant permission to an organization to hold a public meeting (All India Muslim Mahapanchayat) at the Ramlila Ground on October 29.

Retired civil servants file petition against Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act, Supreme Court gives Centre 6 weeks’ time to respond

The plea argues that the amended act is unconstitutional and runs contrary to the existing principles for environmental law in India.

Contrary to what many might think, the FIR is a public document

After a whole day of raids across the country...

Eradicate manual scavenging completely says SC increasing compensation to families of workers who die at work to Rs 30 lakh

‘Each of us owes to this large segment of the population, who have remained unseen, unheard and muted,’ the court said.

Delhi HC: ED does not have the power to arrest on their “whims and fancies”

A single judge bench of the HC limited power of arrest that the Enforcement Directorate has under Section 50 of the PMLA and re-iterated the three-fold conditions that the ED has to comply with to exercise their power of arrest

Kheda Flogging case: HC sentences guilty policemen to 14 days simple imprisonment, order stayed for 3 months

Bench quoted Mother Teresa while imposing a fine of Rs. 2000 on each of the convicted police officers

Tripura HC takes firm stand in case of persecution of Christian converts, orders state to take strict steps against harassing organisations

HC: “Persecution in the name of religion entirely unconstitutional, India is a secular country and everybody has the fundamental right to preach, profess and choose his own religion”

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After 772 Days in Detention, Ajabha Khatun Returns Home: CJP helps secure her release

Ajabha Khatun’s conditional release brings relief to her family, while her pending legal case and her plea for another detainee underline the fight that remains