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Punjab and Haryana HC slams delay in parole case, says prisoners are not ‘second-class citizens’

July 11, 2025 10:52 am

Disposing of the petition, the court not only ordered the DM to take a final call on Singh’s application within two weeks but also laid down a broader rule: all parole pleas must be decided within four months.

Woman 'held hostage' by family in Bihar produced before Bombay High Court by Pune police

June 05, 2025 12:43 pm

The Bombay High Court had issued an order to the police to present the woman in response to a habeas corpus petition by her friend.

SC extends exemption to students from writing Tamil language paper for tamil nadu class 10 exam

TN Class 10th Exams: SC extends exemption to students from writing Tamil language paper

February 07, 2023 8:22 pm

The apex court was hearing a plea challenging the September 2019 order of Madras High Court that refused to quash the guidelines for granting exemption to students from giving the Tamil language paper in the Class 10 board examination.

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Over 18,000 come out in support of St Xavier’s University teacher ‘forced to quit’ for Instagram post

August 15, 2022 3:24 pm

People from different walks of life have signed an online petition addressed to West Bengal's higher education minister seeking action against the university vice-chancellor for moral policing a teacher following a complaint lodged by a student's parents over her “objectionable” photographs on social media

Bombay HC asks petitioner to deposit Rs 1 L to hear PIL on Metro station renaming

June 10, 2022 7:19 am

The plea challenged the July 18, 2019 order passed by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), which sought to revise station names on lines 2A and 7 of Mumbai Metro.

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Individual has right to profess any religion: Delhi HC

June 04, 2022 4:15 am

Declines to issue notice on BJP leader’s plea to prohibit forced conversions

Jharkhand HC issues notice to CM Hemant Soren for owning mining lease

April 09, 2022 4:15 am

During Friday’s hearing, Advocate General Rajiv Ranjan said that the state had committed “a mistake” and the lease has since been “surrendered”.

Madras HC: What is paramount, country or religion?

February 11, 2022 9:06 am

Of late, the court said, certain forces have raised controversies relating to dress code and it is spreading all over India; HC adjourns the hearing for 10 days.

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This 20-year-old Afghan girl has a strong message for the Taliban: 'You will never win'

August 28, 2021 10:09 am

"It is such a bad feeling to see that you are landless, your country is without a government, [being run by] a handful of people who are akin to animals"

PIL urges SC to do away with 'my lord','your lordship'

November 12, 2013 2:07 am

Tiwari replied that one of his petitions in the SC was dismissed purely because he did not address the court by those terms.

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Uphaar Tragedy case: SC to hear review petition

January 08, 2016 2:57 pm

New Delhi, Jan 08 (ANI): President of the Association of the Victims of Uphaar Tragedy (AVUT) Neelam Krishnamoorthy on Thursday said the order to hear the review petition by the Supreme Court is a big relief. Neelam, who lost her two children to the tragedy, said that people should not be given any benefit of a prolonged hearing when it was done purposely. On June 13, 1997, 59 people were killed when a fire broke out inside Uphaar Cinema.