The Delhi High Court sought response from the Prosecution on the plea filed by the Jamia Milia Islamia Student Asif Iqbal Tanha. The student was arrested under stringent Unlawful Activities Act, and the plea sought bail in connection with a case related to larger Conspiracy in the North East Delhi Riots in February 2020.
A Public Interest Litigation seeking the inclusion of Judges, Judicial staff, advocates and the members of the legal fraternity in the first phase of COVID-19 vaccination has been filed in the Delhi High Court.
Hansa Research the complainant, who had filed a writ in the Mumbai High Court complaining of Police harassment in early November 2020 in the TRP scam case, has now filed a rejoinder in the Court to the reply filed by Mumbai Police. Hansa has stated that the reply by the Mumbai Police “contains nothing but few denials and unsubstantiated, vague and superficial allegations”.
The dilemma of “bail and not jail” resurfaced again in the Supreme Court in the case of granting bail to Najeeb, the accused in a case of chopping the hand off of a professor in the state of Kerala.
5 years of education, sleepless nights, years of hard work, finally one gets a case. Hours of research goes into preparation for each case. After all this, the lawyers who argued are not paid. even when they argue on behalf of the government.
The recent update on WhatsApp sends shockwaves throughout the country. The question of how safe is one’s privacy and how protected is one’s data privacy in our country rose yet again. Several PILs have been filed in the Supreme Court of the country raising the issue of data privacy especially associated with the sharing of UPI data with third-party apps.
The case of a 40-something man, married with 2 daughters seeking to free a 21-year-old who he claims to be his spiritual live-in partner from her parents ‘illegal detention’ has become a moderately famous issue. What started off as a writ of Habeaus Corpus filed in the High Court of Kerala has now progressed into a petition filed in the Supreme Court on the same grounds due to the dismissal of the plea at the Kerala High Court.
The Delhi High Court clarified that intervention of elders and friends in the society cannot be grounds for quashing an FIR filed under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code,1860 and Section 4 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO).
The Bombay High Court’s Aurangabad Bench has given directions to the electronic media, print media, social media users such as Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, etc, to be cautious before circulating information regarding rape cases so that the victim is not identified directly or indirectly.
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