1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (503+ words) However, the disruption was not confined to the protest site. Areas including Mandi House, located nearly two kilometres from Jantar Mantar, also reported connectivity issues despite not being the centre of the demonstrations. According to The Indian Express, the shutdown…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1610+ words) Detailed may be read here, here, here and here. The Delhi High Court’s order directing preservation of CCTV footage, videography, PCR records and other material connected with the incident marks an important judicial safeguard. By ensuring that evidence is not…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (702+ words) Before the High Court, the officers argued that the alleged acts occurred during investigation of a cognisable offence and therefore attracted the protection of Section 197 CrPC, which bars prosecution of public servants for acts committed while acting or purporting to…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (701+ words) In support of this claim, Shrivastava has relied on a purported account attributed to former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, who was not in office during the Quit India Movement, to argue that it was the Indian National Army, and…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1085+ words) Mumbai’s streets have become the latest site of a growing confrontation between student dissent and state power. What began as a solidarity movement demanding accountability over alleged examination failures has expanded into a wider mobilisation of students, young professionals, activists…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (995+ words) Demonstrations in areas including Chaityabhoomi, Dadar and Shivaji Park were met with heavy police deployment, barricading and preventive action. While the police maintained that the gatherings were unauthorised and necessary measures were taken to prevent breaches of peace, protesters alleged…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (469+ words) Rabindra Kumar Pal, better known as Dara Singh, the principal convict in the 1999 burning-alive of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons, Philip (10) and Timothy (6), at Manoharpur village in Odisha’s Keonjhar (now Kendujhar) district is likely set to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1570+ words) “Thus, though the petitioner had exhibited 15 (fifteen) documents as exhibits, the same does not appear to help the petitioner to establish that he has been able to discharge his burden as required under Section 9 of the Foreigners Act, 1964 to prove…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (336+ words) On April 26, a Bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta dismissed Karat’s appeal, agreeing with the Delhi High Court’s conclusion that no cognisable offence was made out. The Court reasoned that the speeches did not explicitly target any identifiable…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1579+ words) At the heart of the judgment lies the Court’s unequivocal rejection of the proposition that the burden of proof under Section 9 of the Foreigners Act authorises Tribunals to mechanically declare a person a foreigner merely because the individual failed to…...