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Supreme Court issues notice on plea for time-bound reverification of Assam NRC over “large-scale errors”

Retired IAS officer Hitesh Dev Sarma, former State NRC Coordinator, urges SC to order comprehensive review of draft and supplementary NRC citing wrongful inclusions, exclusions, financial irregularities, and threats to national security

Gauhati HC orders the Assam Govt to rehabilitate the remaining families rendered homeless in eviction drives

100 families remaining out of the 700 evicted will now get a chance to present their case and substantiate their claims for resettlement

Delhi HC Approached for Separate Public Job Vacancies for Transgender Persons

The petitioner, Jane Kaushik, a transgender woman, says she is qualified for a teaching job in a government school but has had to face multiple refusals.

Mohsin Shaikh murder: All of the Hindu Rashtra Sena accused acquitted

The 28-year-old Pune techie was murdered while on his way home after offering namaz at a mosque

DGPs reports flag radical Hindu and Islamist outfits as issues in law and order

The reports which were available on the conference website until January 25, have now been taken down

Orissa HC stalls Collector’s salary for failure to process land compensation pending since 1961

The court order was dismayed to learn that no compensation was paid even 10 years after the petition was filed

21 years later, 14 acquitted for murder in one of the many 2002 Gujarat riots cases

They were accused of killing and burning bodies of 17 Muslims in one of the many incidents of widespread violence in Gujarat in 2002, in the aftermath of the burning of a coach of the Sabarmati Express at Godhra

Bilkis Bano’s plea against remission to convicts could not be heard in SC

Bilkis Bano was 21 years old and five months pregnant when she was gang-raped while fleeing the riots that broke out after the Godhra train burning incident. Her three-year-old daughter was among the seven family members killed.

How diverse and inclusive is the Indian judiciary?

Through this piece, we shed light on the existing predominance of caste men and the lack of marginalized and minority representation in the judiciary

Court orders 12 UP cops to be booked for murder of farmer: Cow Vigilantism

The order of the chief judicial magistrate directing registering of a case followed directions by the Allahabad High Court for early decision in the case

Gujarat HC: Mere filing of FIRs insufficient grounds for arrest under the Preventive Detention Act

While quashing the detention, the court observed that the FIR should have a connection with the violation of public order

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