-TheWire.in "We welcome the Indian Supreme Court’s order to reconsider the sedition law, which has been used arbitrarily and widely against peaceful critics," the UN Human Rights said in a tweet. New Delhi: The United Nations Human Rights office has welcomed the order passed by the Supreme Court on sedition and has called for the immediate release of all detained under the colonial law. “We welcome the Indian Supreme Court’s order to reconsider...
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Hold Sedition Law Till Review? Supreme Court Wants Centre's Reply Tomorrow -Sukirti Dwivedi
-NDTV.com Supreme Court Sedition Hearing: On Monday, two days after firmly defending the sedition law and asking the Supreme Court to dismiss challenges to it, the government said it had decided to review the legislation. New Delhi: The Supreme Court today asked the government to reply by tomorrow on whether the sedition law can be paused and people charged under it can be protected while the colonial-era law is being reviewed. A...
More »Centre Defends Sedition Law, Says Past Judgment By Supreme Court Binding -Sukirti Dwivedi
-NDTV.com "A constitutional bench has already examined all aspects of sedition law in context of fundamental rights," the Centre said in its statement. New Delhi: The Centre today defended the sedition law and asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the pleas challenging it. The court is hearing a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the colonial-era law. In a written submission, the Centre told the three-judge bench, led by Chief Justice...
More »CJI Ramana flags ‘illegal’ arrests, custody torture and cop bias -R Balaji
-The Telegraph Chief Justice says the Union and state governments account for 50 per cent of the cases in the country Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana on Saturday castigated “illegal arrests”, custody torture and biased investigations by police while spelling out why governments deserved most of the blame for the backlog of 4 crore court cases in the country. “If police investigations are fair, if illegal arrests and custodial torture come to...
More »Time To Introduce Local Languages In Courts: Chief Justice NV Ramana
-NDTV.com/ PTI "I think the time has come now to revisit the demand and take it to a logical conclusion. The practice of law before Constitutional courts should be based on one's intelligence and understanding of law and not mere proficiency in language," the Chief Justice of India said. New Delhi: Amid a debate over Hindi and the linguistic diversity in the country, Chief Justice of India NV Ramana today said that...
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