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A section of lawyers has declared that till the Governor formally announces that Tamil will be an associate language in the High Court, they would persist with their boycott of the courts. Accordingly the lawyers in Madurai have boycotted the courts more than one week.
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Some news items appearing over the past six months concerning judges cause concern and alarm. Here are a few. A judge was travelling in a car with revolving red beacon light at the top. When the car stopped at a traffic signal, two young men followed the car tapped the car window and inquired...
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The Supreme Court today allowed an application for impleadment filed on behalf of CEHAT (Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes) in a matter where it will consider the constitutional validity of the two finger test and prayers for the framing of guidelines for the medico-legal...
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TB patients, Civil society and TB organizations gathered today at Nirman Bhawan to protest against the ongoing stock-outs of TB medicines that have led to treatment interruptions across the country. This summer, there have been persistent stock-outs resulting from a deadly delay in the annual...
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The Supreme Court today posted the petition challenging the judgment of the Gujarat High Court which held that all women automatically convert to the religion of their husbands upon marriage, to be heard in February 2014. While doing so, the Court observed that the petition raised important...
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The gruesome murder of Dabolkar, who had been spearheading a movement against superstitions in Maharashtra, has plunged all people of rationalist disposition in shock. Voices are rising that laws should be put in place to prevent the country from being reduced to an assembly of dim wits. A law...
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16 July, 2013, New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India today rejected the Maharashtra Government’s decision to forbid dancing in beer bars, calling the ban unconstitutional. The ban dates back to August 2005, when the Maharashtra State Legislature enacted the Bombay Police (Amendment) Act...
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The Central government evolved a computerization policy in 2007 to speed up the cases in the courts, hitherto proceeding at a ‘tortoise pace’. It was called ‘E-Courts Mission Mode Project’. Its objective is to put all courts in India on an electronic mode and link their...
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