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The Delhi police commissioner has ordered his personnel to use simple words in FIRs instead of difficult Urdu or Persian ones which few understand.

A case of a man being chargesheeted for killing a rat has raised eyebrows. But researchers have found that animal abusers are often exposed to abuse themselves and likely to take it out on society later.

Controversy swirls around US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas regarding ethical issues from not reporting decades of substantial gifts from an activist, moneyed Republican donor. His response in this case, exposed by ProPublica, a non-profit journalism organization, resulted in a rare public statement that essentially confirmed the report. It brings into focus the rules of ethics followed by federal judges at all levels.

The Bill is expected to herald the Indian competition framework into a new era that can efficiently regulate new-age markets. The role of different stakeholders must also be kept in mind. 

The compact judgment balances the concerns of unity and integrity of the nation with the requirements of procedural and substantive aspects of natural justice and holds that all administrative action is judicially reviewable.

Abysmally low wages for prisoners has put a question mark on prison reforms. Recommendations of the All India Jail Reforms Committee have only partially been implemented by states.

The recent release of the Report outlines the major areas in which India falls behind in terms of justice delivery, analysing it from the perspectives of the police, judiciary, prisons and legal aid.

While social media has had a positive impact on the legal system and made dissemination of information to clients easier, issues of confidentiality and privacy too have to be tackled

The Supreme Court had directed that all convicts and undertrials, released during the Covid-19 pandemic to decongest jails, should surrender within a fortnight. The top court also dismissed an application filed by a convict for considering the parole granted during the pandemic as part of his actual sentence since it was involuntary

As the population of the majestic animals increases in Gir forests in Gujarat, there is a plan to relocate some to Kuno in Madhya Pradesh. Will the relocation be as successful as those of cheetahs from Africa?