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Free at Last on Medical Bail; Telugu Poet Varavara Rao is Released from Judicial Custody
07 Mar 2021
The court also disapproved the stand taken by the National Investigation Agency that the accused was not entitled to any relief under humanitarian or any other grounds keeping in mind the gravity of…
Aanchal Singh, Gauravjeet Narwan
New Code on Work Conditions: Should a Workweek have Four Days or Six?
04 Mar 2021
Prolonged working hours for four days, without any guarantee of three days leave, will have a severe impact on the health of all workers in those conditions.
The Leaflet
SC Agrees to Hear Gautam Navlakha’s Plea, Sends Notice to NIA
03 Mar 2021
The jailed civil rights activist has petitioned the apex court against Bombay HC order rejecting his claim of statutory bail.
Bhasha Singh
Competency and Accountability are Base of Democracy: Anjali Bhardwaj
02 Mar 2021
Anjali Bharadwaj talks about her work with the 'Satark Nagarik Sangathan'.
Newsclick Report
CJI Bobde’s ‘Will You Marry Her’ Question to Rape Accused Sparks Anger, Shock
02 Mar 2021
Many took to social media to express their anger at the Chief Justice of India posing the question of marriage to a government employee accused of raping a minor.
Newsclick Report
TRP Scam: Bombay HC Grants Bail to BARC’s ex-CEO Partho Dasgupta
02 Mar 2021
Dasgupta, in a written statement to the Mumbai Police, had said that Goswami had bribed him with $12,000 and Rs 40 lakhs in cash to ensure the “manipulation of TRP ratings that made Republic TV get…
Muazzam Nasir, Ashish Kumar
Is UP’s Use of Facial Recognition Technology Aimed at Discriminatory Treatment?
01 Mar 2021
Facial Recognition Technology has a structural flaw. The datasets are humanly designed. If historical criminal data is fed into the algorithm, its decision-making abilities are altered.
Sabrang India
Government Hospital to Compensate for Unforeseen Death and Injury: Madras HC
27 Feb 2021
The court directed a government hospital to compensate an aggrieved Dalit family, albeit it was not a case of medical negligence
Newsclick Report
Dalit Labour Activist Nodeep Kaur Granted Bail by Punjab and Haryana High Court
26 Feb 2021
Kaur had been denied bail twice despite her family levelling serious allegations of custodial brutality and sexual assault.
Nitya Chakraborty
Delhi Court’s Order on Disha Ravi’s Bail is Reminder that India’s Sedition Law Needs Revision
25 Feb 2021
The Disha Ravi case underlines that the democratic forces in the country who stand for free expression and dissent under Article 19 of the Constitution, must vigorously assert for the removal of the…