A series of questionable orders by the Allahabad High Court has made the Supreme Court fume. Women's rights organisations are enraged. Lawyers are scrambling to find reasons for the slide.
In both cases, Allahabad HC Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh granted bail to the rape accused. In the latest case, the victim was a MA student who was allegedly raped in Delhi last year.
It's been signed by Gujarat HC Advocates’ Association, Kerala HC Advocates’ Association, Awadh Bar Association Lucknow, Advocates' Assn Bengaluru, Allahabad HC Bar association etc.
Bar association president Anil Tiwari met Meghwal in Delhi. The body has been up in arms against Justice Varma's transfer to Allahabad HC, as recommended by SC Collegium.
The bar association has also questioned the procedure to appoint Supreme Court and high court judges, calling it non-transparent, and called for a review of the collegium system.
Allahabad HC was dealing with a plea seeking to quash case of forgery & cheating. It noted that in FIR, the caste of all accused was mentioned, using terms like ‘Maali,’ ‘Thakur' & ‘Pahadi'.
SC slams prosecution for faulty trial process, cites lack of forensic proof, unreliable witness statements and failure to establish motive after 2012 murders were linked to 2007 murder.
Both rulings reaffirm loudspeaker use is not integral to religious practice & must adhere to noise pollution regulations. The matter has been debated in courts multiple times.
The top court's censure was directed at the ED in the case of Sashi Bala, after the agency contended that the stringent bail conditions under Section 45 of the Act applied to women.
The last time this matter flared up was when Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in a very similar directive in April, called for the relocation of stray dogs in the capital.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
Article seems to focus on castes more than anything else. Looks like upper castes are the only perpetrators in UP.