Delhi court has remanded Kashmiri human rights activist #KhurramParvez to NIA custody for 10 days in a UAPA case.
Kashmiri Journalist Irfan Mehraj has also been remanded in the same case today. Khurram is already in judicial custody in another #UAPA case. @NIA_India
NIA had sought 12 days of remand for both Mehraj and Parvez for questioning them.
NIA’s counsel told court that in the opinion of the investigating officer, Mehraj has not been cooperating, and therefore, his arrest has been necessitated.
Court:…having regard to facts disclosed and to unearth incriminating material and other links concerning their unlawful activities besides the aspect of confrontation with digital evidence,…both the accused are remanded to police custody of the NIA for a period of 10 days.
Complainant, Ankit’s father, had lodged a missing report when his son wasn’t found during the riots.
It was his case that his son was killed by Tahir Hussain and his associates, who gathered in his office and threw Ankit’s body in the drain after killing him.
#SupremeCourt to hear a batch of petitions seeking Scheduled Caste status for Dalit converts
Adv. Prashant Bhushan for one of the petitioners:This matter involved constitutional validity of the Schedule caste order by which it was provided persons belonging to religion other than Hinduism will not be considered as Scheduled Caste.
Bhushan: Later Buddhist religion and Sikh religion was added.
Delhi High Court restrains Income Tax authorities from acting on the Show Cause notice issued to Rajya Sabha MP and senior lawyer Kapil Sibal on March 11, 2023 in relation to assessment proceedings.
The court said the concerned officer will first dispose of objections preferred by Sibal. "In this context, the concerned officer will issue a notice to the petitioner which would indicate the date, venue and time of the hearing," said the court.
The concerned officer will pass a speaking order qua the objections preferred by the petitioner and a copy of the same will be furnished to the petitioner, a division bench of the court said in the order.
#DelhiHighCourt to shortly hear #DelhiPolice’s plea against discharge of #SharjeelImam, Safoora Zargar, Asif Iqbal Tanha and eight others in 2019 Jamia violence case.
Hearing before Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma.
The matter will be heard at 2:15 PM.
While issuing notice in the petition, Justice Sharma had said that the trial court’s observations against the investigating agency will neither affect further investigation nor the trial of any accused person.
Justice Gita Gopi: Here, the lawyers don't even call litigants to their chambers. Now, Foreign lawyers are going to come to India, and you all (referring to advocates present in courts) are going to get tough competition.
"Let's see how do treat litigants after that...The foreign lawyers will at least serve tea, and coffee to the litigants, and at least corporate culture will be there...I want to see what you do then (laughs)": Justice Gita Gopi
"Remember, one who is a farmer, his clothes look dirty. The cloth of the garage worker looks stained with oil...Never judge a person by the clothes he wears": Justice Gita Gopi
The Kerala High Court is set to hear the bail application moved by the CM's former Principal Secretary, M. Sivasankar, who had been arrested by ED in connection with money laundering related to the LIFE Mission case. #KeralaHC#MoneyLaundering#LIFEMissionCase
A Special PMLA Court at Kochi had rejected Sivasankar's bail application on March 2 and extended his custody till March 21. Sivasankar had moved the plea seeking bail on medical grounds. He had alleged the arrest as a 'political stunt'. #KeralaHC#LIFEMissionCase#MoneyLaundering