Source: dnaindia.com The ruling CPI(M)’s state secretary, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, Monday said nobody attempted to settle the rape allegation levelled against his son Binoy Kodiyeri by a Mumbai-based woman. Balakrishnan, who addressed the media after a meeting of the party’s state committee, said he came to know about the complaint only after a court sent a
Source: deccanchronicle.com BENGALURU: The edifice of law has broken and it is police raj in the state, the Karnataka High Court orally observed while hearing a case on Wednesday. The court took state police to task for the manner in which it has been functioning and added that it sends chills down the spines of
Source: indiatoday.in The Delhi High Court on Wednesday posted for July 8 a plea seeking direction to the Lok Sabha Speaker to appoint a Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, saying there was no urgency in the matter. A vacation bench was hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by advocates Manmohan Singh and
Source: businesstoday.in On June 24, Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Minister of Law & Justice, Electronics & Information Technology introduced The Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019. Amidst protests by some Opposition leaders, he sought to provide a brief explanation. “Supreme Court has elaborately dealt with the Aadhaar Act and has held that Aadhaar is
Source: thewire.in Last week, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking him to increase the Supreme Court’s current sanctioned strength of 31 judges, ostensibly to tackle the continuing rise in pendency of cases. The court, which began with a sanctioned strength of eight judges, saw the number of judges
Source: deccanchronicle.com Chennai: The Madras high court has dismissed a batch of petitions, which challenged the erection of high tension electricity towers through agricultural lands for the Rs 24,000 crore project to transmit power from Chhattisgarh to Tamil Nadu. Dismissing the petitions from Vai.Palanisamy and 10 others, Justice G.Jayachandran said as far as the factual
Source: newindianexpress.com CUTTACK: The Odisha High Court has ruled that grant of bail is not a mechanical act and a Judge is not bound to grant bail to an accused on grounds of parity. “There is no absolute hidebound rule that it must necessarily be granted to the co-accused, where another co-accused has been granted
Source: dnaindia.com The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday expressed its unhappiness on the state government for its failure to take steps to abolish the inhumane practice of manual scavenging. The government was supposed to file a detailed reply on Wednesday clarifying whether manual scavenging is still prevalent in the state, or not, and what actions
Source: thenewsminute.com Tension prevailed in Andhra Pradesh’s capital Amaravati as authorities from the state government on Tuesday night began demolition of a building adjacent to former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s rented residence on the banks of the Krishna river. As visuals of earth movers demolishing the Praja Vedika were being shared on social media,
Source: counterview.net Two top rights groups with presence in several countries, including India, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have said that the “criminal case” against the Lawyers Collective, a Delhi-based high profile NGO with some of the most well-known Supreme Court advocates as its office bearers, is the latest example of how the foreign
