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Medical corroboration in rape cases not pre-requisite, bail denied to accused: MP HC
arun Posted On October 25, 2020


The Single Bench has held that delay in filing FIR by the victim is no ground to throw away the prosecutrix’s case and that medical corroboration is not an absolute necessity while assessing gang rape cases. MP High Court On […]


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COURT  / KARNATAKA  / NATIONAL  / NEWS  / STATE
Death Penalty for Rape: Karnataka HC
arun Posted On October 25, 2020


Observing that an attack on anybody’s daughter is an attack on ‘our own daughter’, the division bench made this suggestion keeping in mind the issue of women’s safety, to curb this menace in the society, as rape is a ‘crime […]


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COURT  / DELHI  / Minority
Against the country’s secular structure: Court denies bail to man accused of damaging Masjid
arun Posted On October 24, 2020


Considering the gravity of allegations, large-scale involvement of the applicant in the North East Delhi riots, court do not find it to be a fit case for grant of bail A Delhi Court has made a crucial statement about the […]


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Activists  / COURT  / DALIT  / DELHI  / Minority  / NATIONAL
Democracy dies when it’s streets fall silent: Activists on the right to protest
arun Posted On October 23, 2020


Arundhati Roy, Bezwada Wilson, NiveditaMenon, Nadeem Khan, Prashant Bhushan, Yogendra Yadav, call for debate on policing, protests, role of mainstream media On October 7, 2020  The Supreme court ruled that the right to protest in public places is not absolute, […]


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COURT  / Journalist  / NATIONAL  / UTTAR PRADESH
Allahabad HC grants bail to journalist Prashant Kanojia
arun Posted On October 22, 2020


Kanojia was arrested on August 18 after an FIR was filed against him in Lucknow for allegedly “morphing” a social media post made by the member of an outfit called the Hindu Army, and then tweeting it; three months later […]


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COURT  / DALIT  / Girl  / NEWS  / STATE  / UTTAR PRADESH
Allahabad HC slams ADG, DM for cremation of Hathras victim’s body
arun Posted On October 14, 2020


Daughter cremated against our wishes, victim’s family tells court. Allahabad HC asks DM if things would have been the same if the victim belonged to an affluent family  The grieving family of the Dalit teenager who succumbed to grievous injuries […]


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COURT  / DALIT  / Girl  / NEWS  / STATE  / UTTAR PRADESH
BREAKING: A’bad HC summons suspended SP, Hathras on November 2, Victim was Entitled to Dignified Cremation
arun Posted On October 14, 2020


The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad HC has said that the combined decision of the Uttar Pradesh Police and District Magistrate to go ahead with the cremation without the family’s consent has infringed the fundamental right to life to live […]


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COURT  / DALIT  / NEWS  / STATE  / UTTAR PRADESH
Hathras DM owns full responsibility for ‘night cremation’ of Dalit victim’s body
arun Posted On October 13, 2020


Lucknow: Hathras district magistrate Parveen Kumar Laxar has owned full responsibility for the decision related to holding the cremation of the 19-year-old victim in the night. Laxar pleaded that cremation had been done in the dead of the night because […]


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COURT  / Madhya Pradesh  / Minority  / NEWS  / STATE
MP HC drops NSA charges, grants bail to 4 Muslim youth
arun Posted On October 13, 2020


The Indore Bench passes order saying that the government had incorrectly utilised the law for baseless charges. The Madhya Pradesh High Court on October 6, 2020 dismissed charges against four Muslim youths, booked for carrying swords during a Muharram procession […]


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COURT  / DALIT  / JUSTICE  / NATIONAL  / RESERVATION
Why Prashant Bhushan is Wrong to Oppose Reservation in the Higher Judiciary
arun Posted On October 11, 2020


Prashant Bhushan is a truly remarkable person, someone many of us admire and respect for his sense of justice and dedication towards constitutional rights and democracy at large. Unfortunately, his position on reservation in the higher judiciary is problematic and […]


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