Month: July 2019

Source: newindianexpress.com CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has denied anticipatory bail to journalist Prakash M Swamy who apprehended arrest in connection with a case of alleged sexual abuse. The complainant, a Chennai-based actor, had accused him of sexually abusing her in 2018. According to prosecution, the petitioner offered to redress some issue in the complainant son’s

Source: telegraphindia.com The Supreme Court has ruled that the personal liberty of an individual “has to be subordinated within reasonable bounds” to the larger good of the society, upholding the preventive detention of two persons accused of smuggling gold. The recent order came as the bench set aside a high court’s judgment quashing the detention

Source: sentinelassam.com SILCHAR: How fair will the National Register of Citizens (NRC) be? This question has been impinging the minds of individuals and organizations concerned with the preparation of a fault-free and foreigner-free NRC. A person declared foreigner by Foreigners’ Tribunal could get his name enlisted in NRC and when detected dared to challenge it in

Source: indianexpress.com Reacting to the Manipur High Court’s judgment banning the unauthorised mining of sand and stone in the state, quarry workers have threatened to take up agitation if the state government does not allot an alternative site to them. The High Court had on July 2 imposed a total ban on unauthorised stones quarrying,

Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The government is learnt to have asked the Supreme Court collegium to reconsider its recommendation to elevate a judge of the Allahabad High Court as chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court.  While returning the file of Justice Vikram Nath last month, the government did not cite any reason, sources

Source: theleaflet.in THE Calcutta High Court has dismissed a public interest petition seeking to declare the worship of Lord Rama and the chanting of “Joy Sree Ram” (Jai Shri Ram) a fundamental right. Citing an incident that had occurred on May 30, 2019 in Bhatpara, 24 Paragana, West Bengal, where seven people were arrested for chanting Joy Sree Ram while Chief Minister

Source: news.yahoo.com NEW DELHI, July 19 (Reuters) – India said on Friday thousands of illegal immigrants from neighbouring Muslim-majority Bangladesh had produced false documents to become citizens in the far-eastern Indian state of Assam. The Supreme Court had ordered the citizenship tally for Assam following years of campaigns against immigrants from Bangladesh who ethnic Assamese

Source: telegraphindia.com he BJP on Friday sought the intervention of Calcutta High Court for the peaceful conduct of a no-trust vote at Bongaon municipality, alleging that the Trinamul chairman and his followers had stonewalled the process despite the court’s orders. Moving a petition on behalf of Dipendra Bairagi and 10 other BJP councillors, advocate Ashok

Source: outlookindia.com New Delhi, Jul 19 The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Executive Committee has expressed concern over CBI searches at the residence and offices of senior advocates Indira Jaising and Anand Grover. In a message sent by SCBA president Rakesh Kumar Khanna to its members, he said that there should not be any interference

Source: thewire.in New Delhi: Ten persons, including a group of writers and poets who identify themselves as pursuers of ‘Miyah poetry’, a form of creative expression mostly in Assamese and Bengali dialects, have been granted anticipatory bail by the Gauhati high court. They had been accused of spreading misinformation within and outside Assam about the Assamese