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Courts will have to release NIA and UAPA accused if special courts not set up: SC to Centre
July 19, 2025 4:43 am
The bench told Additional Solicitor General Rajkumar Bhaskar Thakre, appearing for the Centre and Maharashtra government, that designating the existing courts as special courts amounted to “coercing” the high court to relabel them
‘UAPA in its present form is constitutionally valid’: Bombay HC dismisses challenge to validity of law
July 17, 2025 9:56 pm
The Bombay High Court passed the judgement on a plea filed by a man who was issued notice in 2020 in connection with the Elgaar Parishad case.
Maharashtra Public Security Bill: Vague and dangerous for civil liberties
July 11, 2025 5:12 pm
Instead of the word ‘abetting’, which is commonly used in criminal law, the new law uses the word ‘encouraging’. What amounts to abetting a crime is settled jurisprudence. But the word ‘encouraging’ is alien to criminal law
Why UAPA, not any other law, when normal smoke canisters used? asks Delhi HC in Parliament security breach case
May 08, 2025 8:37 am
At the last hearing, the court had inquired from the prosecution if the use of non-lethal smoke canisters, as was used by the accused, would be in the ambit of the stringent UAPA.
95 gangs with over 5,000 cases in Delhi: Centre to SC, bats for special courts to try gangsters
April 25, 2025 6:17 pm
Additional Solicitor General (ASG) S D Sanjay told the bench that a proposal is being moved, which is under active consideration of higher authorities concerned, to set up these special courts, and sought three weeks’ time.
‘If use of smoke canister is a terrorist act, every Holi & IPL match will also attract UAPA’: Delhi HC on 2023 Parliament breach case
April 25, 2025 7:27 am
The court indicated that if a smoke canister, which was freely available in the market, would attract UAPA, then people would be committing this offence every Holi – using non-lethal smoke canisters to celebrate – and even IPL matches will attract this provision.
‘UAPA added to defeat our interim order’: Supreme Court raps Chhattisgarh Police
March 01, 2025 4:28 am
The man, Manish Rathore, had moved the top court through Advocate Kaustubh Shukla after the Chhattisgarh High Court denied him anticipatory bail in a murder case registered at Narayanpur police station.
Engineer Rashid gets his day in Parliament: 10 hours of House, 1 min of speaking time
February 12, 2025 8:42 am
“Hamara khoon sasta nahin hai. Humein jeene do, humein jeene ka haq hai (Our blood is not cheap. Allow us to live, we have the right to live),” said Abdul Rashid Sheikh.
For UAPA accused Sarabjit nightmare is over, but 'life has not been so kind all these years'
January 23, 2025 11:32 am
Sarabjit had just returned from Bahrain in December 2020 and was arrested for “working to revive militancy in Punjab on behalf of Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF) and planning to commit terrorist activities in Punjab” along with Amandeep Singh, alias Pinder, Gurdeep Singh, alias Baghi and Sanju Kumar. They were booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Arms Act.
In a first, terror act invoked against Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh
January 08, 2025 10:50 pm
He has been named as an accused in the murder of a YouTuber last year
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2008 Malegaon blasts: Lt Col Purohit, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur charged with terror conspiracy murder
June 22, 2020 6:12 pm
A special NIA court charged all seven accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case with terror conspiracy, murder and other related offences. This includes Lt Col Prasad Purohit and Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur.
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