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SC pulls up Jharkhand govt over journalist’s midnight arrest
August 30, 2022 2:27 am
“This is not the way to treat the media or a journalist. This is thorough lawlessness in the state,” a bench presided by Justice D Y Chandrachud said, refusing to entertain the government’s appeal challenging the HC’s July 19 order granting bail to journalist Arup Chatterjee.
Legal Weekly: Court apologizes to a 1945 freedom fighter for not receiving pension; top judgments of the week
February 03, 2018 5:50 pm
Legal Weekly is a compilation of landmark rulings passed by the Supreme Court and the High Courts of the country during the week. Read upon why the Madras High Court apologised to a 1945 freedom fighter.
Legal Weekly: Archaic Revenue Police System to be abolished in Uttarakhand; top judgments of the week
January 20, 2018 6:16 pm
Legal Weekly is a compilation of landmark rulings passed by the Supreme Court and the High Courts of the country during the week. Read upon why the Bombay High Court commuted a death penalty awarded to two young men after being convicted for rape and murder of a 4-year-old.
Legal Weekly: Rehabilitation of 800 slum-dwellers directed by SC & more; top judgments of the week
January 06, 2018 3:43 pm
Legal Weekly is a compilation of landmark rulings passed by the Supreme Court and the High Courts of the country during the week. Read upon how SC issued direction to rehabilitate Mumbai slum-dwellers and Uttarakhand High Court recommendation to award death penalty for rape of children below 15.
Justice more humane
January 22, 2014 1:17 am
The Supreme Court does well to impose new conditions on the use of the death penalty.
Hope for Bhullar, curative petition to be taken up soon
January 22, 2014 1:02 am
Bhullar has been undergoing treatment at the Institute for Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences in Delhi since 2010.
Supreme Court commutes death sentence of 15, says 'Retribution' has no constitutional value in India
January 21, 2014 10:14 pm
The apex court invoked a number of principles to stress that even convicts fall under the protection offered by the Constitution.
Need to probe all acquittals, Supreme Court orders states
June 24, 2020 2:31 pm
The order was prompted by the acquittal of an accused in a minors rape and murder case of 2003.
Centre mulling change of definition of rape to make it gender-neutral
March 14, 2014 12:30 pm
Assaults on eunuchs often go undetected as only a woman can be 'raped' in India.
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