-IANS Crimes from murders to rapes to dacoities to caste conflicts and communal tensions Lucknow: Two months is not a long time in politics to fall from grace, especially when a landslide of public support has propelled you to power. But in Uttar Pradesh, the honeymoon period of the Yogi Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government seems to have been spiked by a series of incidents of heinous crimes and law and order...
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High Court to Yogi: Choice of Food is Part of Citizen's Right to Life
-TheWire.in Inaction of state government to regulate abattoirs in the past cannot be a shield for imposing “a state of almost prohibition” on meat, says Allahabad High Court. Noting that food habits are an essential part of UP’s secular culture, the Allahabad High Court held that food and trade in foodstuff is constitutionally guaranteed under the right to live. The Lucknow bench of the high court was ruling on a petition brought...
More »HC gives Yogi Adityanath government 24-hour deadline to produce illegal meat shops' closure orders
-The Financial Express The Allahabad High Court on Monday gave Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath led Uttar Pradesh government 24 hours to produce before it all the orders on the basis of which it closed illegal meat shops in the state. The Lucknow court had ordered the state counsel on March 27th to produce the order by April 3 but the state failed to do so and instead sought more time for...
More »Vacancies in judiciary, police force plague UP -Pradeep Thakur
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Aditya Nath Yogi government has resolved to improve the law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh but two important pillars of the justice delivery system — the police and the judiciary —are in a dilapidated condition in the state. There is over 47% vacancy of judges in Allahabad High Court and more than 55% vacancy in the sanctioned strength of the police force in...
More »Why a Parliamentary Act - or ordinance - is needed for demonetisation -Pratik Datta & Rajeswari Sengupta
-Scroll.in Without it demonetisation would be legal, but the RBI would continue to remain under a legal obligation to keep on exchanging the old notes with new ones. On November 8, 2016 the Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes were “demonetised”. This move has raised three interesting legal questions. Writ petitions have been filed across the country challenging the legality of demonetisation. Petitions are pending before High Courts of Kerala, Bombay, Delhi,...
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