The Kuki Organisation for Human Rights Trust told the Supreme Court on Friday that the Manipur Police forwarded only short, edited audio clips to the National Forensic Science University (NFSU), Gandhinagar, instead of the complete 48-minute recording that the petitioner had submitted. The trust says the selective transmission rendered the…
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Supreme Court Rejects Quota for Promotee Judges
New Delhi: A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Regular Promotees (RPs) cannot claim a separate quota for appointment to the Higher Judicial Service (HJS). The Bench — led by Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai and comprising Justices Surya Kant, Vikram Nath, K. Vinod…
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SC: Arrest Illegal Without Written Grounds Before Remand
In a historic ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court of India declared that any arrest made without furnishing the written grounds of arrest to the accused at least two hours before their production before a magistrate is illegal. The Court said such arrests violate the fundamental rights to life and…
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Rajasthan HC Dismisses Plea for FIR Against Modi Shah on CAA
The Rajasthan High Court has dismissed a petition seeking registration of a murder case against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and former Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad over the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019. The Court termed the plea “absurd, frivolous, and concocted,”…