The passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act on December 11, 2019 saw thousands of protesters take to the streets across India to emphatically reject the CAA, calling it “divisive”, “fascist” and even “unconstitutional”. While supporters of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party came out, as expected, in favor of the amendment, …
Read More »UP Cabinet Approves Ordinance To Control “Illegal” Religious Conversions | India News
LUCKNOW: Giving legal force to your promise to crack down on forced conversions amid a spiraling dispute over “love jihad,” Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath and his cabinet approved the UP ordinance on Tuesday Prohibiting Illegal Religious Conversion. The law makes forced religious conversion punishable in the state with …
Read More »High Court Issues Guilty Notice of Arrest of Kerala Scribe En route to Hathras | India News
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court On Monday he sought the response of the Uttar Pradesh government in a statement challenging Kerala’s arrest. journalist Siddique Kappan on the way to Hathras, where a young Dalit had died after allegedly being gang-raped. A bench of the Chief Justice SA Bobde and judges …
Read More »UP’s cow slaughter law is being misused against innocents: Allahabad HC
Written by Manish Sahu | Lucknow | Updated: October 27, 2020 11:28:18 am The UP Cow Slaughter Prevention Act prohibits the slaughter of cows and their progeny in the state, with a penalty of up to ten years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of up to Rs 5 lakh. …
Read More »The family of the girl Hathras wants to leave the village | India News
Unsure of what will happen after the police and media are gone, the family of the deceased Hathras girl wants to move from the village that has been her home for generations, reports Anuja Jaiswal. “It will be impossible to stay after everything that has happened. It would mean a …
Read More »Law student turns hostile in Chinmayanand ‘rape’ case | India News
LUCK: The 23-year-old LLM student who had accused former BJP deputy Chinmayanand of sexual exploitation last year turned hostile before a special MP-MLA court in Lucknow on Tuesday. The court was hearing the case under the direction of the Allahabad High Court. The student appeared in court on Tuesday and …
Read More »Woman Who Accused Chinmayanand of Sexual Exploitation Turns Hostile | Lucknow News
LUCK: In a major twist, the 23-year-old LLM student who had accused former BJP MP Chinmayanand of sexual exploitation last year turned hostile before a special MP-MLA court here on Tuesday. The Lucknow court was hearing the case under the direction of the Allahabad High Court. The student appeared in …
Read More »The Hathras woman’s family wants the case transferred to Delhi or Mumbai, says lawyer Seema Kushwaha
The Hathras woman’s family filed three lawsuits with the Allahabad High Court. Lucknow: The family of a young woman who died last month after her torture and alleged gang rape in a village in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, has called for the case to be moved out of state. According to …
Read More »Rights violated? The Three-Point Scrutiny of the Allahabad High Court Hathras Case
Strict security arrangements in the High Court, where the relatives of Hathras’s victim appeared Lucknow: The Lucknow court of the Allahabad High Court, which is hearing the government and family account of the 20-year-old who died last month after brutal torture and alleged gangrape, is likely to focus on three …
Read More »Hathras Rape Case Live Updates: Victim’s Family Leaves for Lucknow Amid Tight Security to Testify in High Court Today
Hathras rape case LIVE update: The family of the 19-year-old Dalit woman who was allegedly raped and succumbed to her injuries departed for Lucknow this morning to record their statements in the Lucknow court of two High Court judges of Allahabad. The woman’s parents and siblings will record their statements, …
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