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The Guardians of the Ballot: Supreme Court hearing the legality of executive primacy in ECI appointments

Across two days of intense legal arguments, the Supreme Court scrutinising the 2023 Act governing the appointment of Election Commissioners, as petitioners argued that replacing the Chief Justice of India with a Union Minister creates a "Home Umpire" system, while the Bench questioned the limits of parliamentary power, counsel warned that executive dominance over the "referee" of democracy threatens the basic structure of free and fair elections

No road dug up at borders due to protesting farmers: MHA to RS

However, the Ministry of Home Affairs said that the barricading was strengthened to prevent repetition of the January 26 violence

Deliberate attempt to communalise Assam assembly elections?

Doctored video of AIUDF Chief Badruddin Ajmal shows him making communal statements, goes viral in poll-bound state

No proposal to release 2011 caste-based census data: MHA to RS

In the Budget session, the Centre informed that Socio Economic and Caste census 2011 is finalised sans caste data  

Is the MHA still looking for ‘bomb factories’ in Bengal?

Union Home Ministry, had responded to an RTI, stating no information was viable on Amit Shah’s claim 

Muzaffarnagar riots: Case closed against BJP MLA accused of circulating inflammatory video

The closure report was filed by SIT and the complainant, a cop, was killed in a mob attack in 2018  

Kerala HC grants protection from coercive action to LiveLaw under new IT Rules

The legal news portal has challenged the validity of the IT Rules stating that it does not fall under reasonable restrictions of the Constitution

Delhi court stays search warrant for Adv. Mehmood Pracha’s office raid

Pracha’s office was raided the second time since December 2020, and this time it was done in his absence

Nearly 2,000 people arrested under UAPA in 2019: MHA tells Lok Sabha  

The year 2019 saw as many as 1948 arrests out of 1226 UAPA cases registered across all states and union territories (UT)

Haryana: Manohar Lal Khattar-led govt survives no-confidence motion

55 MLAs voted against the motion while 32 MLAs voted in favour of it, JJP had issued a whip to its MLAs to remain present in the House and support the government's stand

Advocate Mehmood Pracha’s office raided again!

Pracha, who is also the lawyer of many accused in the Delhi violence of February 2020, has moved court against the search claiming that it is an intimidation tactic

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