Law

News about judgements of the courts and articles regarding specific laws of the land that matter.

News Reports

Indian Idol Judge calls former Supreme Court Judge ‘disgraceful’ and ‘coward’, receives severe backlash

OpIndia Staff - 21 November, 2019

Sharing an article, Vishal Dadlani had made disparaging comments on the legacy of former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi following his historic judgement on Ram Mandir.

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Uttar Pradesh: Law panel draft recommends strict laws against forced religious conversions with jail term upto 7 years

OpIndia Staff - 21 November, 2019

Uttar Pradesh State Law Commission Chief, Justice Aditya Nath Mittal submitted a report to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, suggesting a new law to check forcible religious conversions

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Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind takes a u-turn, decides not to file review petition against Ayodhya verdict of Supreme Court

OpIndia Staff - 21 November, 2019

Ayodhya case: Jamiat-e-Ulama-e-Hind Chief had earlier said SC should have given alternate land to Hindus to build a temple instead of the Muslims

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Haren Pandya murder case: SC dismisses review petitions filed by 10 of the 12 radical Islamists, CBI had claimed they were trained by Pakistan’s...

OpIndia Staff - 21 November, 2019

In July, the apex court had sentenced 9 convicts to life imprisonment after setting aside their acquittal by the Gujarat High Court in 2011, others had got varied jail terms.

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Solicitor General cites OpIndia report in SC to debunk misleading report by IndiaSpend and The Wire on Kashmir

OpIndia Staff - 21 November, 2019

The Supreme Court (SC) is hearing cases related to the so-called communication shut-down in Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370

News Reports

Parliament passes bill to remove Congress President as the permanent member of Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Trust

OpIndia Staff - 20 November, 2019

The Parliament on Tuesday has passed the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (Amendment) Bill, 2019 which seeks to remove the Congress president as a trustee of the memorial.

News Reports

Jamiat-e-Ulama-e-Hind Chief says SC should have given alternate land to Hindus for Ram Mandir, lies in the process

OpIndia Staff - 19 November, 2019

Jamiat-e-Ulama-e-Hind has said that SC should have given the alternate 5-acre land to Hindus to build a temple instead of the Muslims.

Media

Delhi HC says no copy-paste job in P Chidambaram’s bail plea order, asks Indian Express and The Hindu to publish the clarification

OpIndia Staff - 18 November, 2019

Indian Express and The Hindu had reported that parts of judgement in November 15 order were 'cut-paste' from another one.

News Reports

Judge S Abdul Nazeer who was a part of Ayodhya and Triple Talaq verdict gets Z plus security after threats from Islamist PFI

OpIndia Staff - 17 November, 2019

The Central government has taken the decision to assign Z plus security to Judge S Abdul Nazeer who was a part of the bench that delivered the historic verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi, Ayodhya case.

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