News Update Calcutta High Court Grants Bail to Saradha Chit Fund Scam Accused 20 Jun 2021 Debjani Mukherjee, an accused in the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam, was granted bail by the Calcutta High Court on Saturday in one of several criminal cases against her. Mukherjee,…
News Update JNU Attack: Google Says Court Order Necessary For Police to Access Chat Details 16 Jun 2021 Regards with the JNU violence in January 2020, the Delhi Police's crime branch requested information from Google on 33 members of two WhatsApp groups. According to Google, such information can…
News Update Allahabad High Court Orders UP Govt to Compensate Persons Who Were Under Illegal Detention 15 Jun 202115 Jun 2021 The Allahabad High Court has ordered The Uttar Pradesh government to enforce its policy of paying Rs 25,000 to anyone who has been illegally detained as a compensation, as well…
News Update Jharkhand: Minors Moved to Another Shelter Home After Complaints of Alleged Sexual Assault 13 Jun 2021 Minor children from a state-registered shelter home run by an NGO in East Singhbhum district were relocated by the administration late Friday evening, while an investigation into allegations of sexual…
News Update Musician T.M. Krishna Moves Madras High Court Against IT Rules 11 Jun 2021 T.M. Krishna, a Carnatic singer, has challenged the constitutionality of the new IT rules in the Madras High Court. According to Krishna, the Information Technology (Guidelines For Intermediaries And Digital…
News Update Opposition Parties Say Their Pressure, Supreme Court Intervention Forced Centre To Change Vaccine Policy 9 Jun 2021 Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's partial rollback of his government's vaccine policy on Monday, opposition parties credited themselves and Supreme Court directives for successfully forcing the Centre to provide free…
News Update For An Already Diminished NHRC, Justice Mishra’s Appointment Spells Further Doom 7 Jun 20217 Jun 2021 Justice Arun Mishra is set to take over as chairperson of India's National Human Rights Commission. This clearance appears to have been granted by a five-member committee, with only the…
News Update Rakesh Tikait, Yogendra Yadav, Chaduni Lead Dharna for Farmers’ Release at Haryana Police Station 6 Jun 2021 Hundreds of farmers, led by Rakesh Tikait, Gurnam Singh Chaduni, and Samukta Kisan Morcha leader Yogendra Yadav, set up a sit-in at Fatehabad's Sadar police station on Saturday night, demanding…
News Update Gautam Gambhir Foundation Guilty of ‘Unauthorised’ Distribution of COVID Meds: Drug Controller 4 Jun 20214 Jun 2021 The Gautam Gambhir Foundation has been found guilty of illegally stocking, procuring, and distributing Fabiflu medicine and oxygen to COVID-19 patients, the Delhi government's drug controller informed the Delhi high…
News Update Irrational, Indiscriminate Arrests are Gross Violation of Human Rights: Allahabad High Court 2 Jun 2021 In accepting an anticipatory bail plea in a corruption case, the Allahabad high court said on Tuesday that irrational, indiscriminate arrests are a gross violation of human rights. The courts…
