Law

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

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Pakistan is instigating Jihad against India through internet, restrictions necessary in Kashmir: Solicitor General at Supreme Court

OpIndia Staff - 26 November, 2019

The SG cited before the SC that the Pakistan based terror groups use the internet to instigate the masses of Jammu and Kashmir to indulge in anti-India activities.

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Petition in Bombay HC wants ‘perpetual injunction’ against BJP and Shiv Sena from forming govt with any other party

OpIndia Staff - 25 November, 2019

The petition also demands that FIRs be registered against the BJP and Shiv Sena for breaching trust of voters

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Delhi pollution: SC says national capital is worse than ‘narak’ (hell), to take suo moto cognisance on water pollution controversy

OpIndia Staff - 25 November, 2019

Owing to pollution, the Supreme Court today said that Delhi has become worse than 'narak' (hell).

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Madras HC orders temple lands to remain in possession of deities, halts state govt’s efforts to handover land to encroachers

OpIndia Staff - 25 November, 2019

The Tamil Nadu Government's long-drawn effort to acquire the temple lands to allegedly hand it over to the squatters has been impeded by the Madras High Court.

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92-year-old Sr Adv Keshav Parasaran and other lawyers who represented Ram Lalla in SC get a hero’s welcome in Ayodhya

OpIndia Staff - 24 November, 2019

K Parasaran has argued in the Sabarimala case as well.

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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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