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Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

Lakhimpur Kheri witness alleges he was attacked with swords, no witness protection despite scheme in place since 2018

Farmer Prabhjot Singh, the third witness in the case to be attacked, said the assault took place in Tikunia, Teni’s village

Protesting for release of GN Saibaba, Delhi students ‘assaulted’ by ABVP, cops

 India’s premier human rights network, National Alliance of People’s...

State has no business to know if a person has changed religion: Deepak Gupta former SC Judge

This is the full transcript of the interview of former Supreme Court judge Justice Deepak Gupta with Manu Sebastian, Managing Editor of LiveLaw, on the sensitive subject of India’s anti-conversion laws.

Bilkis Bano review petition to be listed before Bench for consideration through circulation, says SC

Bilkis Bano has sought a review of the Supreme Court judgment which had paved the way for the Gujarat government to consider and release 11 convicts serving life sentence in her case

Remove scurrilous remarks against minority religions, SC tells Ashwini Upadhay: petition against ‘mass coversions’

A bench of Justices MR Shah and Ravinndra Bhat also stated that they would consider all interventions, those filed by Kerala Rationalist Association, some Christian organisations including activist John Dayal and former planning commission member Dr Syeda Hameed

CJP’s PIL seeking directions for established law & procedure on religious processions: A Factsheet

While an MHA 2019 advisory, Indian criminal law and Arms Act as well as judgements & Judicial Commission Reports required implementation of strict norms and restrictions these were often breached, states the PIL

M.P. police: author of book on Collective Violence & Criminal Justice’ arrested from Pune

Following a diktat from MP’s home minister Narottam Mishra, the writer was arrested from a hospital

Saket Gokhale re-arrested, Mamata Banerjee slams Gujarat police & Election Commission

Late night on Thursday, December 8, Trinamool national spokesperson, Saket Gokhale was re-arrested and reportedly taken to an undisclosed destination after he had secured bail from a metropolitan court

Prof GN Saibaba Case: Supreme Court to hear Maharashtra Govt’s appeal against HC’s discharge order on Jan 17

On January 17, the Supreme Court of India will hear the Maharashtra government's plea challenging the acquittal granted by the Bombay High Court discharging former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba and others in an alleged Maoist links case, reported LiveLaw.

Collegium System is Law of the Land, Must Be Followed: Supreme Court to Centre

"Just because there are some sections of the society who express a view against the collegium system, it will not cease to the law of the land," the top court said.

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Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

Malegaon 2006 Blast Case: Bombay High Court rejects NIA’s ‘alternate narrative’, holds prosecution built on contradictions and inadmissible evidence

Holding that “diagonally opposite” narratives by investigative agencies cannot sustain a trial, the Court finds the NIA’s case rooted in retracted statements, hearsay material, and a legally impermissible reinvestigation—bringing the prosecution to a “dead end”

Delhi court orders FIR against Abhijit Iyer Mitra for sexually abusive posts targeting women journalists

Court finds tweets “sexually coloured,” prima facie intended to outrage modesty; directs police probe into X account and devices

From Cow Slaughter to “Public Order”: Allahabad High Court’s expanding use of preventive detention

Through detailed reliance on fear, timing, intelligence inputs, and administrative response, the Court stretches “public order” to justify preventive detention—raising difficult questions about liberty, evidence, and constitutional limits

From FIRs to “Corporate Jihad”: How the TCS Nashik case was transformed from an investigation into a communal narrative

As police probe serious claims of harassment, a parallel story of conspiracy and conversion dominates public discourse