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Sreesanth scales down claim to play, but case goes back to high court

Banned former India cricketer S Sreesanth on Monday (August 27) scaled down his demand for being allowed to play when he pleaded before the Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice...

Tribal Movements: Jungle Warfare

Above: Siladon villagers stand with bows and arrows near a large stone slab that enumerates their rights under Schedule 5/Photo: UNI The rape of five women in Khunti district in Jharkhand is part o...

NewIllegal Sex Trade: Medium is the Massage

The Delhi High Court takes notice of a PIL on massage parlours soliciting customers for the flesh trade   ~By Deepankar Malviya Over the past decade, there have been many incidents of illegal f...

Ayush Gram Lease: Nailing the State’s Disinformation

Above: The Bhowali TB Sanatorium may soon be converted into a multi-specialty hospital/Photo: ratansharga.blogspot.com The Uttarakhand High Court has slammed the state government’s bid to hand over...

Armed Forces Special Powers Act: A Suicidal Plea

Above: Activists stage a dharna against AFSPA in Imphal. There have allegedly been 1,528 extra-judicial killings by security forces in Manipur between 2000 and 2012/Photo: UNI A petition by 356 sol...

Extramarital Relationships: A Complicated Affair!

In a debatable judgment, the apex court convicts a man on the grounds that his illicit relations with another woman abetted his wife’s suicide ~By Venkatasubramanian Section 113A of the Indian E...

NDPS Act: Benefit Of Doubt

Above: Under the NDPS Act, the onus of proving innocence lies on the accused/Photo: prlog.org The apex court’s acquittal of an accused under the NDPS Act raises questions about investigators’ compl...

Conduct of Elections: No to NOTA

The Supreme Court has ruled that though this option may be “an elixir” in direct polls, it could undermine the purity of democracy if allowed in the Rajya Sabha polls ~By India Legal Bureau In a...

SC directs Gujarat medical college to give admission to vision-impaired candidate under Disabilities Act

The Supreme Court on Friday (August 24) directed BJ Medical College, Ahmedabad to give admission to a vision-impaired candidate to study MBBS in the current session as per the provisions of the Disabi...

Jharkhand HC cancels provisional bail of Lalu

The Jharkhand High Court on Friday (August 24) quashed the provisional bail of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav and asked him to surrender by August 30. On August 10, the court had extended the provis...

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