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Dadri lynching: UP Court rejects state govt plea to withdraw charges against Akhlaq murder accused
Additional District Judge Saurabh Dwivedi hearing the matter also directed that the case be categorised as “most important” and heard on a daily basis.
Custodial Death of Dalit Law Student Somnath Suryawanshi: FIR registered after Supreme Court upholds Bombay HC directive
Eight months after the Dalit law student’s alleged custodial murder in Parbhani, Maharashtra Police books unidentified officers under BNS Section 103(1) following Supreme Court’s rejection of state’s appeal and pressure from public outrage and legal advocacy
Beed Sarpanch Murder: Special court finds prima facie evidence of organised crime syndicate, rejects Karad’s discharge plea
Special Judge cites digital, forensic, and witness evidence linking Walmik Karad to a crime syndicate behind the abduction and killing of Sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh over a ₹2 crore extortion racket
Prajwal Revanna convicted of rape in first case, sentencing of August 2
A 47-year-old farm labourer had filed a complaint against Prajwal, accusing him of raping her thrice, twice at the Revanna family’s farmhouse in Gannikada in Hassan district and another time at the family house in Bengaluru. A Special Court in Bengaluru today convicted Janata Dal (Secular) leader and former MP Prajwal Revanna in the first rape case registered against him at the Holenarasipura Rural Police Station of Hassan District. Order on sentence is likely to be pronounced tomorrow.
Malegaon Acquittals: A judgement of some doubt, a trail of uneven justice
All seven accused walk free in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, but the real story is not the acquittal, rather it is how an anti-Muslim terror conspiracy unravelled in plain sight, and still evaded justice
Resignation in Protest: MP woman judge quits over elevation of senior she accused of harassment and discrimination
In a powerful act of protest, Judge Aditi Gajendra Sharma resigns after the elevation of a senior she accused of caste-based harassment, calling out the judiciary’s silence, systemic bias, and betrayal of its own ideals
K’taka Anti-Conversion Law: HC judgement sets a precedent against potential weaponisation by third-party vigilantes
Ruling that a complaint cannot be filed by an unrelated third party, the Karnataka High Court has significantly read down section 4 of the state law
Bihar SIR: 65 Lakh electors flagged for deletion, SC said “if there is mass exclusion, we will immediately step in”
Bihar's SIR of electoral rolls concluded on July 26, with 7.24 crore (91.69%) enumeration forms collected out of 7.89 crore electors, 65 lakh voters have been flagged for potential deletion, meanwhile, on July 28, the SC refused to halt the draft roll publication on August 1, in a July 29 hearing, the court signalled a strong stand against apprehension of "mass exclusion," with petitioners stating, ECI know who the 65 lakh people, if ECI mention the names in draft list, we have no problem
“Humans Cannot Just Disappear”: Gauhati High Court told in Doyjan Bibi case as State fails to produce pushback documents
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July 25 hearing exposes disturbing lack of procedural compliance; BSF confirms ‘pushback’ of Doyjan Bibi, but State fails to furnish proof of handover to Bangladeshi authorities
7/11 Bomb Blasts: Supreme Court Judgement says Bombay HC Order cannot be treated as Precedent
The Supreme Court has not interfered with the high court’s finding in the 7/11 train blasts case that the 12 men are innocent; their personal liberty, for the moment remains unaffected after release
Still Waiting in Grief: How the 2006 Mumbai train blast victims were denied closure and justice
As the acquittal of 12 innocent men wrongfully confined for the 7/11 (Mumbai 2006) blasts is welcomed, we must remember the grief of 189 victims of the blasts; the state failure, and a failed system that let the real perpetrators go free
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