A plea has been filed in SC seeking issuance of specific directions in custodial killing/ encounter of accused Rakesh Pandey yesterday and for the registration of FIR under Sections 302, 201, 120-B, 193 of the Indian Penal Code against the police officials involved in custodial killing/alleged encounter.
The Uttar Pradesh Police’s Special Task Force (STF) has made clear its special task. Encounter killings. This has been happening for a while, though it has gained notoriety and profile in the recent past, with the killing of another gangster, Vikas Dubey.
‘India Against Hatred’ a people’s movement against perpetration of hatred in our country, will be launched tomorrow, 9th August, on auspicious and historic day known as August Kranti Din (Aug 9, 1942).
The Supreme Court Justice N. V. Ramana said today that these testing times have resulted in new innovations which "we have to learn and embrace for betterment of society". Justice Ramana, who is the Executive Chairman NALSA, was speaking at the first ever online Lok Adalat in Delhi today.
India Legal has devoted considerable space in this issue to the New Education Policy (NEP) just passed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. In the midst of his party’s oft-criticised obscurantist agendas, this is a welcome move because it steers clear of ideological shibboleths
The consecration of the Temple has ended a prolonged legal battle where faith was pitted against law, Hinduism against Islam and religious convictions against rationality. Retracing the century-old legal battle shows how the highly contentious and controversial issue finally arrived at a lawful conclusion
As the Covid-19 pandemic singes the land, there is another, more insidious, perverse act happening under its masked cover. The atrocities on the Dalits are rising at an alarming rate. Those disadvantaged from birth are now soft targets of upper caste terror.
A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking an opportunity to students from the ICSE Board who failed in classes 9 and 11 this year. This comes after the CBSE, on May 13, permitted all the failed students of classes 9 and 11 as a one-time measure, to appear in a school-based test again.
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court granted anticipatory bail to Sandeep Singh, personal secretary to Congress general secretary Priyanka Vadra, considering that Singh was just a messenger for a letter from the party offering 1,000 buses to transport stranded workers.
Today, the High Court of Karnataka has quashed the criminal cases against nine foreign nationals belonging to the Tablighi Jamaat on the condition that they immediately leave the country, following an undertaking that they won’t visit India again in the next 10 years and pay the fine.