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Source: scroll.in The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Jammu and Kashmir High Court to decide within six weeks on a plea seeking a ban on the use of pump action guns to control protestors, PTI reported. The matter is listed for hearing in the High Court on Tuesday. A bench of the Supreme Court,

Source: firstpost.com Mumbai:The Bombay High Court on Monday asked the railway authorities to “think out of the box” and come up with ways to make suburban train coaches and stations more disabled-friendly. The Railways, in an affidavit submitted before the high court said it would not be possible to increase the halt time of trains

Source: timesnownews.com Imphal: The ban imposed on unauthorised mining in Manipur has invited threats for the state government. After the Manipur High Court passed the judgement on the ban, the quarry workers said that if a local site is not allotted to them for mining, they would resort to staging protests.  The decision was taken

Source: deccanchronicle.com Chennai: Holding that a rank third party to the proceedings who is neither a victim nor an aggrieved person, cannot be permitted to prosecute criminal proceedings, the Madras high court has dismissed a petition, which challenged an order of the lower court, dismissing a complaint relating to an alleged custodial death. Dismissing the petition

Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com GUWAHATI: A high-level panel constituted by the Union home ministry to suggest ways to implement Clause 6 of the 1985 Assam Accord will have its first meeting on July 24 in New Delhi, a member of the panel told ET.  The ministry had to reconstitute the panel after four of the nine members

Source: taxscan.in The Bombay High Court has allowed the Service Tax Department to conduct Service Tax Audit on post Implementation of Goods and Services Tax ( GST ). The petition sought a declaration that Respondents do not have power under Rule 5A of the Service Tax Rules, 1994 read with Section 174(2)(e) of the Central

Source: telegraphindia.com The government is learnt to have asked the Supreme Court collegium to reconsider its recommendation to elevate an Allahabad High Court judge as chief justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court. While returning the file relating to Justice Vikram Nath last month, the government did not cite any reason, sources said. They added that

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