New Delhi: Hours after Governor Anandiben Patel enacted the controversial Uttar Pradesh Illegal Conversion of Religion Prohibition Ordinance, 2020, the state police filed the first case in Bareilly. But questions are already being asked about the case, which seems tailor-made to justify the swift enactment of the law. In an …
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New Delhi: Attorney General KK Venugopal avoided another controversy over attempts to restrict freedom of expression when he refused to consent to the initiation of criminal contempt proceedings against Prashant Bhushan for his tweets criticizing the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India (CJI) SA Bobde received a special …
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New Delhi: A convoy of at least 10,000 female protesters heading towards Delhi from 14 Punjab districts is led by a female farmer. Harinder Bindu from Bhatinda has been a farmer for no less than 30 years. Bindu has lived his entire life in Punjab with his son, brother, sister-in-law, …
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New Delhi: On Friday, the Supreme Court observed that criminal law cannot become a “weapon for the targeted harassment of citizens,” while providing reasons for granting a provisional bond to journalist Arnab Goswami on November 11 in connection with a case of complicity in 2018 for suicide. After underlining that …
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Lucknow: Contrary to the polarizing campaign carried out in the name of ‘love jihad’ by the Uttar Pradesh government and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, a ‘special investigation’ launched by the UP Police into the allegations of attraction and forced conversion of women Hindus has turned out to be a wet …
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On November 21, the Governor of Kerala promulgated the Kerala Police Ordinance (Amendment), 2020 as the legislative assembly is not in session. The cabinet had presented its recommendation to the governor in late October. See this ordinance, a new Section 118A has been introduced in the Kerala Police Act, 2011. …
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New Delhi: Orissa’s high court has cleared the way for the arrest of BJP National Vice President Baijayant Panda and his wife, Jagi Mangat Panda, in a case of alleged land fraud by a company owned by Panda. The court had previously approved an interim order granting them protection against …
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New Delhi: A ‘leaked’ audio recording of a telephone conversation allegedly between defendants in the Kerala Swapna Suresh gold smuggling case and an anonymous person has created a controversy. According to The Hindu, the recording indicates that the Directorate of Execution (ED) may have been trying to coerce Suresh into …
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New Delhi: The Twitter username ‘True Indology’ was suspended after the account holder got into an online discussion with IPS officer D. Roopa over the claim that firecrackers were part of Hindu tradition and were mentioned in ancient texts. The discussion, which began on Nov. 14, began with the premise …
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New Delhi: While order was reserved on a petition filed by former BSF Jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav, the Supreme Court said the issue could not be left pending indefinitely as it concerned the country’s most important office, that of the prime minister. LiveLaw has reported that the petitioner’s lawyer had …
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