The full bench of the Karnataka High Court, which concluded its hearing in the Hijab case, today upheld the order restricting students from wearing any religious cloths inside educational institutions’ premises. The High Court noted that wearing Hijab is not essential to Islam and also noted that the state government has power to issue an
The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to the state government on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) asking it reasons why the use of loudspeakers for giving aazan (call for prayers) in mosques should not be banned. A division bench of Chief Justice Arvind Kumar and Justice Ashutosh J Shastri issued the notice on a
The Allahabad High Court, while hearing the obscene remarks made on Lord Rama and Krishna on the Internet media, said that India is incomplete without Ram. Whether one believes in God or not, he has no right to hurt anyone’s faith. Freedom of expression is not unlimited, there are some restrictions as well. It is
The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday issued an order withdrawing 5,570 cases filed against journalists, media personnel and protestors between 2011 and 2021 Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K. Stalin had announced that these cases would be withdrawn while addressing the state assembly on June 24 this year, the Deccan Herald reported. The 5,570 cases withdrawn by Government Order
The High Court on Wednesday heard a public interest litigation filed for conducting post-mortem in a virtual way. After hearing the matter, the division bench has asked the Center and the state government to file their replies within four weeks. The hearing was held in a division bench of Justice Sharad Kumar Sharma and Justice
Over a week after the Supreme Court rapped the Union government on the lack of clarity on what can be considered a COVID-19-related death, the latter has filed an affidavit with guidelines. The Union government said that the health ministry and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) have devised guidelines for official documentation of deaths due
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said the state government has sanctioned around Rs 70 crore for digitisation of subordinate or lower courts, so as to provide justice to the common man easily. The Chief Minister said this, while welcoming President Ram Nath Kovind, Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana, Law Minister Kiren
Marriages can be registered in the virtual presence of parties, the Delhi High Court has ruled, saying that in the present times, citizens cannot be prevented from exercising their rights because of a rigid interpretation of law which calls for “personal presence”. Hearing a plea by a US-based Indian couple seeking to register their marriage
Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav of Allahabad High Court appealed to the lawyers and said that you argue in Hindi, I will give all the decisions in Hindi only. He said that Hindi language unites the nation. Hindi is continuously expanding abroad. It is a matter of pride for us. Said that I give 25% of
Cow should be declared as the national animal of India, the Allahabad High Court said on Wednesday. , the court also said that cow protection be made a fundamental right of Hindus. “…because we know that when country’s culture and its faith gets hurt, the country becomes weak,” the court said while denying bail to
