NEW DELHI: A citizen’s freedom cannot be taken away in this way, the Supreme Court has said, setting aside the Punjab Y Haryana High Court order in which a guilty plea filed by a man had been dismissed on the grounds that his lawyer had been absent four times during …
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NEW DELHI: The Attorney General KK Venugopal today he granted his consent to initiate criminal contempt against the comedian Kunal Kamra for his tweets against him Supreme Court verdict in journalist Arnab Goswami. The move comes after a Mumbai-based defender on Wednesday requested permission to initiate contempt proceedings against the …
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Siddique Kappan has been in jail for more than a month and his wife and their lawyers say they have not been given permission to meet with him. Senior defender Kapil Sibal cited the case of Delhi-based journalist Siddique Kappan on Wednesday to point to the disparity in relief given …
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A vacation court of Judges DY Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee asked the State if there was a need for a custody questioning of Mr. Goswami since the issue relates to personal liberty. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court questioned the Maharashtra government for its 2018 complicity in the suicide case against …
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“How can we consider a petition like this without the High Court not investigating it first?” Asks Judge Chandrachud. On Thursday, the Supreme Court asked ARG Outlier Media and journalist Arnab Goswami to have faith in the Bombay High Court instead of going directly to the high court with their …
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NEW DELHI: No woman, after being sexually assaulted at knife point, would write amorous love letters with the accused and share a cohabitation relationship for four years, the Supreme Court said Monday while acquitting a 20-year-old man of rape and cheating charges, for which he was convicted by the trial …
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