-The Hindu Going by recent reports, even the privileged are not spared third-degree treatment, he says Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana on Sunday said police stations pose the “highest threat” to human rights and dignity, which are ‘sacrosanct’. “The threat to human rights and bodily integrity is the highest in police stations... Going by recent reports, even the privileged are not spared third-degree treatment,” the Chief Justice said. Custodial torture and police atrocities...
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Big Supreme Court Hearing Today Of Pleas For Pegasus Row Probe: 10 Points -Shylaja Varma
-NDTV.com New Delhi: The Supreme Court will today hear a batch of petitions, including those filed by the Editors Guild of India, seeking a special probe into the Pegasus spyware scandal involving allegations that opposition leaders, journalists and others were targets. 1. A two-member bench, headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana, will hear the petitions. Justice Surya Kant is the second judge on the bench 2. The Editors' Guild of India, in its...
More »CCTV Of Jharkhand Judge's Murder Spurs Outrage, Raised In Supreme Court -A Vaidyanathan, Manish Kumar and Sukirti Dwivedi
-NDTV.com Jharkhand judge's death: Chief Justice NV Ramana said the Jharkhand High Court "has taken up the issue and the case is now on". Dhanbad, Jharkhand: The death of a judge in Jharkhand on Wednesday in what was initially believed to be a hit-and-run has taken a chilling turn with security footage of the incident leading to a murder investigation. As the killing generated shock and rage, Chief Justice of India NV...
More »Delhi HC slams Centre, RBI for inaction on usurious mobile vendors
-The Hindu RBI said it regulates banks and non-banking finance companies and it does not regulate online lending platform The Delhi High Court on Tuesday observed that online lending platforms, offering short-term personal loans through mobile apps, cannot be allowed to charge exorbitant interest and processing fees. “Rate of interest should not be exorbitant. Just look at the difficulties. An expert body is required. If you people are so slow in taking action,...
More »The Vulnerabilities of the Homeless Are Due to the State's Failure To Provide Any Security -Brijesh Arya and Maggie Paul
-TheWire.in The perception has grown over the years that those without any shelter are somehow getting a free ride. Headlines across several newspapers on the afternoon of July 3 declared “homeless and beggars should work; everything cannot be provided to them by the state”. This statement was attributed to the Bombay high court bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish S. Kulkarni during its hearing of a public interest litigation...
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