Friday, March 29, 2024

Topic: Justice

Judiciary is abdicating its responsibility: People’s Movements on Babri demolition verdict

National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM), an alliance of progressive people's organizations and movements in India, said it is shocked and dismayed at the verdict of the CBI Special Court in acquitting all 32 persons accused of being responsible for the demolition of Babri Mosque.

Babri verdict amounts to a travesty of justice: CPI(M)

The verdict of the Special CBI Court at Lucknow acquitting all 32 accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case amounts to a travesty of justice, the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) said.

Sedition laws: Penal provisions or political weapons?

Sedition is nothing but a political tool that is always used by the governments to create deter in the minds of a critical thinker. A large number of cases of sedition exemplifies the frivolous use of this provision. This law has more cons than pros and has the potential to be misused and therefore, it is necessary that this law should be abolished in India the way it has happened in Britain.

This is a little disturbing for me: former Chief Justice of India on SC verdict against Bhushan

Many including former Chief Justice of India R.M. Lodha have condemned the Supreme Court verdict against Lawyer Prashant Bhushan.

Delhi pogrom and curious case of arrested Muslim youth: Why courts have forgotten ‘Bail is rule, jail is exception’ principle?

The Sessions Court successfully overturned the principle of bail and concluded that “Jail is the Rule, Bail is an Exception”, particularly when the State wants the individuals from the marginalized and vulnerable groups of Indian minorities behind the prisons, as long as the authoritarian State demands.

Lack of evidence in FIR, Safoora Zargar’s pre-trial detention against International Standards: American Bar Association

The American Bar Association's Center for Human Rights said today that the pre-trial detention of Jamia Millia Islamia student leader Safoora Zargar does not appear to meet the standards of international law, including treaties to which India is a state- party.