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In a new development, many Delhi schools have received hoax bomb threats. Now a petition in the Delhi High Court calls for an action plan to deal with these pranksters

As sports bodies openly ignore the Supreme Court guidelines on setting up internal complaints committees to look into sexual harassment charges, female sportspersons are left in the lurch. The latest to join the long line of victims are top female wrestlers of the country. How will the predators be prosecuted?

The government is using artificial intelligence and facial recognition to detect individuals with more than nine SIMs and who are indulging in cybercrimes.

The issue of narcotics and the law is once again under the scanner following the interrogation of former zonal director Narcotics Control Bureau Sameer Wankhede by the CBI for violating conduct rules by sharing conversations he had with actor Shah Rukh Khan regarding his son Aryan Khan’s arrest in the Cordelia cruise ship “drug bust” case. It has once again brought into focus the law and penalties against possession of narcotics.

The Indian Armed Forces Tribunal faces multiple challenges in the modern era, not least being involved in an era of gender parity and the ambit of cases it can officially deal with. At an India Legal Research Foundation event, Editor-in-Chief, APN channel, RAJSHRI RAI spoke with JUSTICE RAJENDRA MENON, the chairperson of Armed Forces Tribunal on a range of issues. Excerpts:

Union law minister Kiren Rijiju has been sacked. Experts feel that his barrage of unhinged words against the judiciary was his undoing.

How can a prisoner be brutally stabbed within a high security ward despite the presence of security personnel? Indian jails, which are already overburdened, are yet again facing new allegations in the light of the gruesome murder of gangster Tillu Tajpuriya in Tihar jail by members of a rival gang.

Ruling on the power war between the elected governments of Delhi and Maharashtra versus their centrally-appointed governors, the Supreme Court has sought to bind and shackle the Delhi Durbar’s autocrats with the chains of the Constitution.

As Karnataka cattle traders cry foul over anti-slaughter act, the spin-offs of cattle protection laws on commerce become hard to ignore. As the subject of agriculture and animal husbandry comes under the state list, there is no omnibus law in the country which deals with cattle protection and slaughter norms. Instead, states have the power to enact individual cattle laws.

In order to reduce case pendency, the chief justice has directed that 14 vacation benches sit during the summer vacations. For an already overburdened judiciary, does this take the joy out of holidays?