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Back home in Udupi, his wife Sumana M filed a complaint with the district police, saying unknown persons had impersonated Bangera on Facebook. An air-conditioning technician belonging to Udupi district in Karnataka returned home Wednesday after spending 604 days in… Continue Reading →
19 August,2021 | MumbaiPTI Senior counsel Mihir Desai earlier this week wrote a note to the high court on behalf of the Jamshedpur Jesuit Province (JJP) which is seeking to pursue Swamy’s case as his next-of-kin Stan Swamy. File Pic… Continue Reading →
Those still in custody in the case include Anand Teltumbde, Hany Babu, Shoma Sen, Jyoti Jagtap, Ramesh Gaichor, Sagar Gorkhe, Sudhir Dhawale, Mahesh Raut, Arun Ferreira, Surendra Gadling, Sudha Bharadwaj, Gautam Navlakha, Rona Wilson, and Vernon GonsalvesBy Malavika Murali Aug… Continue Reading →
Israel must safeguard human rights activists in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and within its borders, a UN-appointed expert said on Wednesday. Mary Lawlor, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, expressed concern over arrests, harassment, criminalization and threats… Continue Reading →
In light of the enormous costs to human liberty and the widespread abuse of the law, the conclusion is unavoidable: Section 43D(2) of the UAPA must be abolished with immediate effect. Father Stan SwamyPragya Barsaiyan, Kumar KartikeyaPublished on : 10 Aug, 2021, 5:17… Continue Reading →
The petition says that accused Sagar Gorkhe, Ramesh Gaichor and Mahesh Raut along with one more person, were kept in isolation in a room of size 15*8. Once kept there, they were completely ignored. Protests outside Taloja jail aft4er death… Continue Reading →
Upendra Baxi writes: Section 124-A needs to be wholly judicially repealed at the bar of the fundamental human right to free speech Written by Upendra Baxi |Updated: July 31, 2021 8:04:30 amIt is high time to realise that the law of “sedition”… Continue Reading →
JYOTI PUNWANI 29 Jul 2021 For 15 years, these Mumbai contract workers struggled to be treated on par with regular workers and went from success to success, despite arrests and dismissals. Then the State used a law meant to be used… Continue Reading →
The Delhi University professor’s counsel informed the Bombay High Court that he has ‘largely recovered’ from his eye infection. The court was informed by Babu’s advocate that after receiving treatment for two months his condition has improved and did not… Continue Reading →
SHIMLA: Observing that pregnant women need bail, not jail, the Himachal Pradesh high court allowed on Saturday the petition of a pregnant woman accused in a Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act case. Justice Anoop Chitkara also said that temporary bail… Continue Reading →