The state follows others in setting up its first “Baal Mitra Police Thana” and as per the Juvenile Justice Act, has a separate room with bright colours and paintings in an effort to appear sensitive and approachable.
The Supreme Court will hear the plea filed by advocate Rituparn Uniyal, petitioner in person, seeking urgent steps to protect forests, wildlife and birds from wildfires in Uttarakhand.
The petitioner has submitted that the true danger with this new so-called "love jihad" law lies not in its explicit textual basis, which seems fairly innocuous prima facie. Instead, its threat lies in its ambiguity
The Uttarakhand High Court has issued a Contempt of court notice to former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand and present Governor of Maharashtra, Bhagat Singh Koshyari in the matter of not depositing his arrears of rent and other bills.
The Uttarakhand High Court has ordered that all documents of all primary and upper primary school teachers in the state have to be verified within three weeks. The court has been hearing a petition which had alleged that about 3,500 teachers in the state have got jobs with fake documents.
The Uttarakhand High Court has ordered the acquittal of a person convicted for sexually assaulting and attempting to rape a two and-a-half-year-old girl, because of absence of credible evidence.
Justice Ravindra Maithani heard the bail application filed by the journalist in FIR No. 265 of 2020, under Section 420, 467, 468, 469, 471, 120-B 124-A IPC, filed at Police Station Nehru Colony, District Dehradun.
The Uttarakhand High Court has recently held that a wife causing mental cruelty to husband is a valid ground for dissolution of marriage, as mental cruelty is no less than physical cruelty.