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Due Process Strengthened: Supreme Court mandates written, language-specific grounds for arrest under special laws and general laws
Building on Pankaj Bansal and Prabir Purkayastha judgements, the Court constitutionalised a uniform standard—every arrest, whether under IPC/BNS or special enactments, must be supported by written grounds communicated in the arrestee’s own language, failing which the arrest stands void
The folly of Supercop characters: A look at how films propagate the normalisation of Police Excess
If there is one film genre that gives a film more than some decent chances at the box office even if it is made with a mediocre script is a Cop Story. Examples include the Dabangg and Singham franchises.
Those in India must act as per its culture: Supreme Court on PIL against religious conversion
The Court refused to entertain objections raised against the maintainability of a public interest litigation (PIL) petition seeking steps against forced religious conversion, despite the fact that established law precludes a petitioner who has petitioned courts as many as four times is not entitled to do so, again
Students cut hair in protest against moral policing in Kerala
Students stated that the protest was held to express solidarity with the students who suffered the moral policing attack
Bulldozer injustice: this will only stop when a police officer is sent to jail, says Patna HC
The court said that it will make sure that the petitioner gets compensation from the perpetrators
Does paying salaries to Imams amount to ‘betraying’ the Hindu community’?
Remarks of Central Information Commissioner (CIC), Mahurkar followed the Delhi Waqf Board submitted data that revealed that the wages of imams and mosque helpers increased four-fold since 2014 after the Kejriwal-lef AAP government came to power in the national capital.
Bilkis Bano approaches Supreme Court to contest premature release of rape convicts
Survivor of Gujarat Riots Gang Rape Demands Justice, files petition against remission granted on August 15
CAA discriminatory against Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka: DMK
The party, which is one of the 200 petitioners before the apex court challenging CAA, has now filed an additional affidavit
Why Judiciary and Executive must heed President Murmu’s serious concerns on prisoners’ rights
Appalled at the government’s talk of building more jails, President Murmu made a strong appeal that the governments and judiciary should work together to tackle problems like poor legal aid, pre-trial detentions and the over-representation of marginalised communities inside jails.
SC, once again, seeks DLSA intervention to ensure that under trials unable to provide surety are released from prison
A failure to provide bail bonds or surety is a common occurrence leading to many under trials languishing in jails, despite securing bail
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