Govt. Freezes All Bank Accounts, Amnesty International Halts India Operations

The Government of India has freezed all the bank accounts of Amnesty International India on the allegations of money laundering and suspected violations of Foreign Contribution Regulation Act. Consequently, the human rights organization has been forced to suspend its operations and let go of its staff in India. However, the organization has completely denied all the allegations and...

"A Blot To Cultural Conscience Of This State": ISIS War Zone Operative Sentenced To Life Imprisonment By NIA Court Kochi [Read Judgemnt]

A Special NIA Court at Ernakulam on Monday convicted ISIS terrorist Subahani Haja Mohideen and sentenced him to life imprisonment, in connection with the ISIS Omar Al-Hindi module case. Mohideen, a 35-yr-old resident of Tirunelveli district in Tamil Nadu was arrested by the NIA in October 2016, subsequent to seizure of incriminating materials from his residence, including...

Centre Notifies Act To Regulate Funds Received As Foreign Contributions [Read Notification]

The Central Government on Monday notified the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Act, 2020, to regulate the acceptance and utilisation of foreign contributions by individuals, associations and companies. It amends the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 to prohibit acceptance and utilisation of foreign contribution or foreign hospitality for any activities detrimental...

'Even Police Personnel Outside Their Police Stations Are Not Wearing Masks': Allahabad HC Expresses Displeasure At Shoddy Implementation Of Its Orders [Read Order]

The Allahabad High Court on Monday expressed displeasure at the fact that not only the police authorities had failed to effectively enforce social distancing and wearing of masks, but they themselves are seen roaming about, without masks. "In our country, to begin with, we very successfully locked down the country for good three months. While the lockdown was imposed, we found that...

Kangana's Public Utterance Do Not Give Immunity To Her Unlawful Acts: Sr Adv Aspi Chinoy Submits For BMC

The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai's counsel told the Bombay High Court on Monday that actor Kangana Ranaut was being evasive and deliberately did not state categorically that no alterations were made to the partly demolished property but instead said no illegal alterations were made.Before Senior Advocate Aspi Chinoy made his submissions on behalf of the MCGM, Kangana's lawyer...

'If Detenue Was In Custody, It Wouldn't Have Been Possible For Him To Indulge In Stone Pelting' J&K HC Quashes A Detention Order Passed 'In A Mechanical Manner' [Read Order]

While hearing a petition wherein the Detaining Authority had ordered to place a Detenue under preventive detention, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Tuesday (22nd September) noted that it was clear from the dossier as well as the grounds of detention that at the time of passing of the impugned order, the detenue was in custody.In spite of this, the Court observed, it was recorded in...

Detaining Authorities Must Be Given Proper Training About Requirements Of Law In Passing Detention Order: J&K HC Releases Man Allegedly Detained As Lashkar-e-Taiba Worker [Read Order]

While quashing a Detention order passed by respondent No. 2 under the provisions of Public Safety Act, 1978, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Monday (28th September) remarked,"We are at pains to observe that in routine this Court comes across the cases in which the detention orders issued on the grounds of threat to the security and integrity of State are getting quashed due to...

CLAT 2020 Was Student Friendly And Glitch Free, Says NLU Consortium , Results Will Be Announced On Oct 5 [Read Press Note]

The Consortium of NLUs has intimated that it successfully conducted CLAT 2020 today, and recorded 86.2% attendance It has highlighted that there were no technical glitches during the exam and nevertheless, a Grievance Committee has been constituted under the Chairmanship of Justice Rajendra Babu, former Chief Justice of India, to look into the grievances, if any. The final result...

Karnataka HC Dismisses PIL Seeking To Transfer Drug Racket Case Involving Kannada Actors To NIA For Further Investigation

The Karnataka High Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed by Advocate Geetha Misra, seeking to transfer the high profile drug racket case involving Kannada actress Ragini Dwivedi, Sanjjana Galrani and others to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Ashok S Kinagi said "At this stage it is not proper for this court to go...

Special NDPS Court Denies Bail To Sandalwood Actresses Ragini Dwivedi and Sanjjanaa Galrani

A Special Narcotics Drug and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) court has rejected the bail application filed by Kannada actress Ragini Dwivedi, and Sanjjanaa Galrani and co-accused Rahul Thonse. The actors are presently in Judicial Custody. The actors along with others have been charged under various sections of IPC including 120b (criminal conspiracy) and the Narcotic Drugs...

[Discontinuation Of Insurance Policy] Delhi HC Directs Insurer To Provide Similar Alternative Insurance Plan Having Similar Coverage & Same Premium [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court recently directed an insurance company, that had suddenly discontinued an insurance plan, to provide a similar alternative plan to the Petitioner-claimant, having approximately the same coverage and the same premium. "The grievance of the petitioner is that they have taken a health insurance policy from respondent No. 1 in 2006 and has been regularly...

Showing Porn Videos To Children Aged 5-6 years: Allahabad HC Denies Bail To School-Van Driver [Read Order]

The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday (22nd September) denied bail to a School Van Driver who has been accused of showing porn videos to children aged about 5-6 years.The Bench of Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh was hearing an application under Section 439 Cr.P.C. filed by the school-van driver in question, seeking bail in FIR registered at FIR No.0548 of 2019 under Sections 354 (2), 377, 504 IPC,...