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Ordinance with regards to Regulating inter faith marriages and religious conversion, challenged in the Supreme Court

Citizens for Peace and Justice, NGO, challenged the validity of Himachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act, 2019 and Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Ordinance, 2020, within its previous Petition that…

Twitter to Impose Limits on Accounts in India Following the Threat of Government Legal Action

Upon receipt of a notice of non-compliance and threat of legal action by the Indian government, Twitter will re-implement restrictions on certain Indian accounts. Thousands of farmers have protested following…

HC rejected plea of IAS officer against Government order of his transfer

The Punjab & Haryana High Court rejected the plea of an IAS officer of Haryana cadre who is 100% impaired. The plea sought to challenge the Haryana government order of…

PIL filed in Supreme Court of India asking arrest of Srilankan Naval Personals for killing Indian Fishermens

PIL has been filed in the Apex Court asking for the arrest of Srilankan Naval Officers and Personnells who have allegedly killed 4 Indian Fishermen on January 18 2021. The…

Andhra Pradesh High Court puts a stay order on the use of e-Watch App for reporting poll violations

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has prevented the State Election Commission from using the mobile application e-Watch that was launched to report violations of Model Code of Conduct and to…

The J&K Reorganization (Amendment) Bill passed with a voice vote

*What is a voice vote?*Voice vote is a method of voting in the parliament in which votes of the members are taken on a subject or a motion orally. It…

Plea over ownership of land for mosque dismissed: HC

A petition is dismissed by Allahabad High Court which is being filed against the allotment of land for the construction of a mosque in Dhannipur village of Ayodhya following the…

Government asks Twitter to block 1200 accounts flagged as Khalistan sympathisers or backed by Pakistan

Ministry of electronics and information technology has issued a fresh list of around 1200 accounts to Twitter, asking to suspend them or block them. These accounts were flagged by security…

Plea filed in Supreme Court to introduce e-voting and OTP based indentification of voters

A plea has been filed in the apex court to extend the access of citizens to the electoral procedure by enhancing the postal ballot voting to more categories of citizens…

Whether the minor needs protection under POCSO if there is Consensual sex, observed Bombay HC

8 Feb 20218 Feb 2021

BackgroundIn September 2017, when the Victim was of age 15, studying in std. 8th was engaged in a consensual sexual activity with a boy, aged 19, who was her uncle's…