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Judge Who Slammed Cops For "Callous" Delhi Riots Cases Probe Transferred

-PTI/ NDTV The observation came during the hearing of a northeast Delhi riots case after one policeman identified three alleged rioters but another said that they could not be identified during the investigation. New Delhi: A trial judge, who has been critical of the "callous and farcical" probe of Delhi police in some riots cases of 2020 and had once observed that failure to conduct a proper investigation will torment "sentinels of...

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Heavy burden

-The Telegraph A significant factor behind legal pendency is the number of judicial vacancies, especially in lower courts — more than 5,000 vacancies over the last decade That justice delayed is justice denied is a reality with which Indians are all too familiar. A decade ago, India already had the world’s largest backlog of cases; the total has now climbed to a monumental 4.6 crore. The pandemic, predictably, has exacerbated the problem,...

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Only 11 women Supreme Court judges in 71 years, three of them appointed in 2021 -Sumant Sen, Jasmin Nihalani and Vignesh Radhakrishnan

-The Hindu The share of women judges in High Courts was only 11% as of August 1, 2021  Three of the nine new judges sworn into the Supreme Court (SC) of India on Tuesday, August 31 are women. The elevation of the three women judges is significant as the share of women has always remained poor in the judiciary. The first-ever woman judge in the SC was appointed in 1989, 39 years...

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Madras High Court issue directives to check fake news, fake Journalists - Syed Ali Mujtaba

-MuslimMirror.com Chennai: In an important judgment, the Madras High Court has given directives to the government to constitute a ‘Press Council of Tamil Nadu’ within three months to eliminate the bogus journalists from the media fraternity and to legally addressed the issue of fake news. A Bench of Justices N Kirubakaran (since retired) and P Velmurugan was  hearing a writ petition filed against retired Inspector-General of Police A.G. Ponn Manickavel by S....

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SC Refuses to Stay WB Govt Notification on Pegasus Inquiry Panel; Issues Notice to Union, State

-TheWire.in The petitioner, Global Village Foundation Public Trust, told the SC bench that it has challenged the notification issued by the Bengal government constituting the commission on the ground of jurisdiction. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday, August 18, refused to stay the notification issued by the West Bengal government, setting up an inquiry commission to investigate the revelations of the Pegasus Project. The commission is headed by former Supreme Court judge...

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