-Newsclick.in The apex court has rapped state governments for not filing compliance reports. On Friday, the Supreme Court directed the state governments to file compliance reports within a week on the measures taken to tackle mob lynching in furtherance of its July 17 judgement. In the judgement, the Supreme Court had directed the state governments to file their compliance reports with the Court Registry within four weeks. The matter was listed for...
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Disagreeing With Govt Not Sedition; People Have the Right to Criticise: Law Commission
-TheWire.in New Delhi: Criticising the country or a particular aspect of it cannot be treated as “sedition” and the charge of sedition can only be invoked in cases where the intention is to overthrow the government with violence and illegal means, the Law Commission has observed in a consultation paper on the subject. The commission, headed by Justice (retired) B.S. Chauhan, also noted that in order to study the revision of Section...
More »Cattle dying on tracks: Numbers double in one year -Avishek G Dastidar
-The Indian Express How do cows die in India? Strange as it may sound, but it seems more and more are dying after coming under speeding trains across the country. New Delhi: How do cows die in India? Strange as it may sound, but it seems more and more are dying after coming under speeding trains across the country, especially in the Hindi heartland of North India, a fact that has prompted the...
More »How CJIs have involved senior colleagues in major cases: a study -Srinivasan Ramani & Varun B Krishnan
-The Hindu Representation of collegium members other than the CJI is among the lowest during Chief Justice Dipak Misra’s term Chief Justice Dipak Misra’s role as Master of the Roster was called into question by the other four judges in the Supreme Court collegium in January. While their complaint was about cases being “assigned selectively” to benches of “preference”, how have members of the collegium been represented in major cases (those with...
More »HC flays police for not providing details of missing children
-The Hindu Takes suo motu cognisance of article in The Hindu, makes it part of case records Chennai (Tamil Nadu): The Madras High Court on Friday took suo motu cognisance of a news article titled ‘India’s Missing Children’ that appeared in the Sunday Magazine section of The Hindu on August 12 and made it a part of the official records of a batch of cases being heard by the court in connection...
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