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Punjab & Haryana HC: Users must be given blocking notices immediately; sets aside Facebook page takedown
The Court held that blocking intimations issued by the police must comply with the rank requirements under the IT Rules, 2021, and that withholding the notice from affected users violates the principles of natural justice
Protests on attack on JNU students: Mumbai police withdraws case against 36 protesters
Earlier this month, January 2023, the additional chief metropolitan magistrate allowed an application filed on behalf of the state government seeking to withdraw the plea and disposed of the case.
Allahabad HC grants bail to Javed Mohammad, alleged “Mastermind” of Prayagraj violence
Javed Mohammad (alias Javed Pump), leader of Welfare Party of India, was deemed as the “mastermind” behind the violence in Prayagraj and his house was demolished by the administration
K’taka HC says downtrodden still unable to do business like “upper caste”
The Court refused to quash a complaint against a man who threatened, harassed and used catiest slurs to intimidate the victim.
Arguments against capital punishment
People will support its abolition if they are exposed to a rational argument
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
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