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From Protest to Petition: Maharashtra’s Public Safety Act in the dock
After months of state-wide protests, thousands of objections and sustained civil society opposition, Maharashtra's controversial security law now faces a constitutional challenge before the Bombay High Court
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Concerns raised over Sakal Hindu Samaj proposed event in Baramati
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CJP has written to Maharashtra Police seeking preventive action the February 9 event and rally where Kalicharan Maharaj and Shankar Gaikar are invited as speakers
Gauhati HC sets aside ex parte order declaring woman as a foreigner after her death
The court granted relief to her son, whose citizenship was being suspected due to this faulty order that was passed after his mother’s demise; the court deemed it unsustainable
Questions on Collegium haunt Budget Session; 18 names with SC for reconsideration
Kiren Rijiju, the Union Law Minister, has locked heads with the SC Collegium, sent back proposals, made attacking statements and suggested an overhaul in the judgesappointment system, repeatedly at public events
Bom HC restrains police from depicting Muslims as terrorists in mock drills
The bench has sought guidelines, if any, on basis of which these mock drills are conducted
Challenge to V Gowri’s appointment as Additional HC Judge dismissed: SC
The bench --Justice Sanjiv Khanna and BR Gavai --was disinclined to stay the appointment as it would set a wrong precedent; a reasoned order will follow
Student leaders made scapegoats, prosecution cavalier: Court discharges 11 in 2019 Jamia violence case
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Not just did the court call the prosecution vicarious but held that the right to protest is an extension of the fundamental right to free expression (Article 19)
69,768 cases are pending in Supreme Court end 2022 & 53, 51,284 in various High Courts: UoI
The staggering pendency of cases has been dogging the Indian criminal justice system for decades and these details provided in the ongoing session of Parliament by the union government show that little has changed
Implement SC Order, take preventive action against Sakal Hindu Samaj Event of Feb 5, 27 : petition to CP Mumbai
27 human rights organisations have today addressed a letter to the Mumbai Police Commissioner (CP) and the Director General of Police (DGP) Maharashtra demanding minute implementation of SC order of February 3
SC: Notice issued to 5 states in challenge to ‘love jihad’ laws
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Notice was issued on CJP’s earlier petition challenging anti-conversion laws of UP and Uttarakhand, MP & HP in January 2021
Hate speech: SC asks for video of Sakal Hindu Samaj proposed meet in Mumbai on Feb 5
Sakal Hindu Samaj had earlier held a rally on January 29 in Mumbai where calls for social and economic boycott of Muslims were made.
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