Thursday, March 28, 2024

Topic: Court

A Lawyer’s ode to the Muslims who cannot be killed

I am a young lawyer having recently joined the profession, is in the process of understanding the depth of law, the decorum of courts and nuances of litigation. However, one thing I have clarity about—or you may say I have been made to have clarity about—my identity. I am a Muslim—a visible Muslim.

Delhi pogrom: Court grants bail to Muslim youth, says serious doubt on police witnesses

A Delhi court granted bail to Shah Alam, a Muslim youth accused in a case related to the northeast Delhi violence of 2020 while raising serious doubts on the testimonies of police witnesses as the complainant had not called the police on the day of the incident.

If highlighting farmers’ protest is sedition, it’s better to be in jail: Disha Ravi

"If highlighting farmers’ protest globally is sedition, I am better in jail," the climate activist Disha Ravi told a Delhi court via her lawyer Saturday, stating that there is no evidence to link her with Sikhs For Justice, a banned organisation.

Delhi pogrom: Court rebukes police for arresting 3 Muslim youths with ‘no evidence’

The Delhi High Court on Friday granted bail to three Muslim youths arrested for killing Shahid Alam who had sustained gunshot injury on 24 February 2020 during the anti-Muslim pogrom in northeast Delhi and said that "it is hard to believe a communal riot used to cause death of person of their own coommunity."

In Jamia on 15 Dec 2019 “police was acting to prevent violence”: Court

On Wednesday, a Delhi Court has dismissed the application filed by Jamia Millia Islamia University, seeking registration of FIR against Delhi Police for committing various atrocities within the University campus in December 2019 following anti-CAA protests.

Allahabad HC dismisses plea by Hindutva leader who called AMU ‘classroom of terrorists’

Allahabad High Court on Thursday dismissed a writ petition filed by Ashok Kumar Pandey, Hindu Mahasabha Leader from Aligarh praying for quashing of an FIR filed against him for his anti-Muslim remarks against Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and its founder Sir Saiyed Ahmad.