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Techie’s 2014 Rape-Murder, Acquittal 10 Years Later, And A Helpless Father

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Techie’s 2014 Rape-Murder, Acquittal 10 Years Later, And A Helpless Father

New Delhi: S Jonathan Prasad lived a nightmare 11 years back after his 23-year-old daughter Esther Anuhya’s rotten body was found on a Mumbai road. A software engineer with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Esther had just returned from holidays in her hometown Vijayawada when she was brutally raped and murdered. Mr Prasad, crushed by the…

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Top Court To Mark 75 Years With All 34 Judges In Ceremonial Bench Tomorrow

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Top Court To Mark 75 Years With All 34 Judges In Ceremonial Bench Tomorrow

New Delhi: With the Supreme Court set to complete 75 years on Tuesday, a ceremonial bench of all 34 judges, including Chief Justice Of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna, will assemble in courtroom number 1 at 3.30pm to mark the Diamond Jubilee year. The proceedings of the ceremonial bench will also be live-streamed, according to a…

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Police Cannot Serve Notices Through WhatsApp Or Electronic Modes: Top Court

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Police Cannot Serve Notices Through WhatsApp Or Electronic Modes: Top Court

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has taken a view that police machinery should not serve notices to the accused through WhatsApp or other electronic modes. “All the States/UTs must issue a Standing Order to their respective Police machinery to issue notices under Section 41-A of CrPC, 1973/Section 35 of BNSS, 2023 only through the mode…

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Ex-Chief Justice DY Chandrachud On Criticism Over Supreme Court Vacations

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Ex-Chief Justice DY Chandrachud On Criticism Over Supreme Court Vacations

New Delhi: The criticism that the Supreme Court has a lot of vacations is “completely unfounded” since the judges are working “24*7 and 365 days”, former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud has said. In an exclusive interview with NDTV, Justice Chandrachud also said the Supreme Court of India is among the world’s…

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Supreme Court Sets Aside Death Penalty In Boy’s Sexual Assault, Murder Case

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Supreme Court Sets Aside Death Penalty In Boy’s Sexual Assault, Murder Case

The case does not fall in the rarest of rare category, the bench said. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside the death sentence imposed on a convict in a sexual assault and murder case of a four-year-old minor boy in 2016, and substituted it with a 25-year jail term without remission. Holding…

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Supreme Court Orders Creation Of Dedicated Cells For Mercy Petition Disposal

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Supreme Court Orders Creation Of Dedicated Cells For Mercy Petition Disposal

The directions came as the court upheld an order of the Bombay High Court. (Representational) New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday passed a slew of directions for early disposal of mercy petitions filed by convicts, and directed that a dedicated cell shall be constituted by the home department or the prison department of the…

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Top Court Takes Strong Exemption To Termination Of Women Civil Judges In Madhya Pradesh

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Top Court Takes Strong Exemption To Termination Of Women Civil Judges In Madhya Pradesh

State counsel said that judges were terminated due to poor disposal rates of cases. (Representational) New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday took strong exception to the termination of women civil judges in Madhya Pradesh, criticizing the criteria used for their dismissal and remarking that men would understand the situation if they experienced menstruation. The…

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Supreme Court Asks Poll Body To Explain Rationale Behind Increasing Voter Limit

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Supreme Court Asks Poll Body To Explain Rationale Behind Increasing Voter Limit

The PIL challenged two communications issued by the EC in August. (Representational) New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Election Commission’s response on a PIL challenging its decision to increase the maximum number of voters from 1,200 to 1,500 at every polling station, saying no elector should be excluded. While asking the poll…

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Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Against “Socialist”, “Secular” In Constitution’s Preamble

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Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Against “Socialist”, “Secular” In Constitution’s Preamble

The amendment changed the description of India in the Preamble. (Representational) New Delhi: In a significant verdict, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed pleas challenging the 1976 amendment to the Constitution adding terms “socialist”, “secular” and “integrity” to the Preamble. The words “socialist”, “secular” and “integrity” were inserted into the Preamble to the Constitution under…

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