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An internal judicial committee uncovered significant discrepancies between Justice Yashwant Varma’s statements and the actual evidence concerning a fire incident at his official residence, The Leaflet reported.

Order triggers nationwide outrage with legal experts, politicians, and activists calling for Supreme Court to intervene

Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud agreed to list by mid-October a series of petitions seeking the criminalisation of marital rape.

The Bilkis Bano case PIL petitioners include Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, CPI(M) leader Subhashini Ali, independent journalist and filmmaker Revati Laul and former philosophy professor and activist Roop Rekh Varma.

Morning Digest, July 20, 2023 | Opposition demands debate on Manipur; police promise arrests in sexual violence case; Putin won't travel to BRICS summit; SC to list pleas to criminalise marital rape; Nitish denies being upset; BJP bets on small parties, and more

The Supreme Court on July 6 asked the University Grants Commission (UGC) to specify steps it has taken and proposed to take, to provide non-discriminatory, enabling environment for the students belonging to Scheduled Castes and Schedule Tribes in institutions of higher learning, terming it a “very serious issue”

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that it will hear the plea challenging the constitutional validity of Exception 2 to Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code, related to the marital rape issue on May 9. Read further on Dynamite News:

NEW DELHI: Hearing petitions alleging police atrocities on students inside the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University in Delhi following anti-CAA protests in December 2019, the Delhi High Court on Monday said excessive use of force cannot be justified and the authorities concerned are accountable for their conduct.

MUMBAI: Senior advocate Indira Jaising on Tuesday sent a letter to Bombay high court Chief Justice Dipankar Datta asking to re-consider the system of having two senior counsel "endorse" an application from a lawyer to be designated and deserving of a "senior gown".