Source:-https://thewire.in New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear, in the third week of January, the plea of the Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) questioning the arrest of scribe Siddique Kappan on his way to Hathras where a young Dalit woman had died after allegedly being gang-raped. A bench headed by Chief Justice
Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh government is likely to move the Supreme Court against the recent High Court move to examine whether there is a constitutional breakdown in the State. The HC bench of Justice Rakesh Kumar and Justice Uma Devi, hearing a batch of habeas corpus petitions filed against alleged police excesses in the
Source:-https://indianexpress.com The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad claims to have busted an illegal immigration racket with the arrest of eight men, for allegedly making forged Indian identity documents for Bangladeshi nationals to help them procure Indian passports. Of the eight arrested, the ATS said four are illegal Bangladeshi residents, and added that the racketeers have allegedly provided
Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: With the retirement of Chief Justice of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court Justice Gita Mittal, Indian judiciary is once again male dominated as all the 26 high courts across the country are headed by men. At present there are only two woman judges in the Supreme Court out of the
Source:-https://www.hindustantimes.com The Allahabad High Court has expressed concern over the opening of schools in Uttar Pradesh amid the pandemic, fearing that young children may catch infection owing to their inability to follow precautions. However, falling short of ordering the closure of schools, a bench of justices Siddhartha Varma and Ajit Kumar asked the state government
Source:-https://www.tribuneindia.com Washington, December 12 President Donald Trump lambasted the Supreme Court on Saturday for declining to take a case he hoped would overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory and called Attorney General William Barr a “disappointment”. The nation’s high court late on Friday rejected an unprecedented lawsuit by Texas seeking to throw out voting results
Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com CHENNAI: Madras High Court has stalled the attempt of Coimbatore Corporation to develop Singanallur lake, which is classified as a bio-diversity zone under the Smart City programme. Passing an interim order prohibiting commercial fishing in the lake, the court made it clear that no native plants should be removed from the waterbody. The court
Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com CHANDIGARH: Punjab Deputy Inspector General (Prisons) Lakhminder Singh Jakhar had sent his resignation to the Punjab Government in support of farmers protesting against three farm laws but the government is yet to accept it. 56-year-old Jakhar who had joined the Punjab Prisons Department as Deputy Superintendent Jail on November 11, 1994 will now be
Source:-https://www.tribuneindia.com Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Saturday expressed confidence that J&K would get back 17,000 hectares of land grabbed under the Roshni scheme and action would be taken against the guilty. “The Roshni Act has been struck down by the J&K High Court. It has been termed illegal and unconstitutional. It had been brought in
Source:-https://morungexpress.com Dimapur, December 12 (MExN): The Gauhati High Court, Kohima bench on December 11 admitted a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by three individuals representing the Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Nagaland, Public Action Committee (PAC) and Business Association of Nagaland (BAN) against illegal tax collections that are allegedly going on in Nagaland. In
