A day after the Bombay High Court at Goa ordered their release, two police stations and an Executive Magistrate have filed affidavits defending the detention of seven anti-ECI protesters at Panaji’s Azad Maidan, citing apprehended disturbance. Panaji: The police inspectors of the Panaji and Pernem police stations and the Executive Magistrate of Tiswadi on Monday […]
The Allahabad High Court has granted interim protection and stayed the arrest of a student and Cockroach Janata Party member booked over a video showing the condition of a government primary school in Farrukhabad, and has sought the State’s response to his petition to quash the FIR.
A student and member of the Cockroach Janata Party has moved the Allahabad High Court to quash an FIR registered against him after he recorded and shared a video showing the condition of a government primary school in Farrukhabad. He argues the FIR discloses none of the ingredients of the offences invoked, that recording a public school’s condition is a matter of legitimate public concern protected by Article 19(1)(a), and that its continuation would be an abuse of process. The allegations are untested.
The Centre is set to ask the Supreme Court to quash FIRs against July’s student protesters under Article 142, days before the CJP’s September 5 march, with a carve-out for grave offences. New Delhi: The Central Government is set to move the Supreme Court seeking to quash the FIRs registered against students who took part […]
The Supreme Court declined to restrain the Cockroach Janata Party’s September 5 Delhi protest, saying it can’t presume anything untoward will happen and that law and order is for the police to handle. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to pass any order restraining a protest march announced by the Cockroach Janata Party […]
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant clarified that his “cockroach” remarks were aimed only at lawyers who entered the profession using fake degrees, not the country’s youth. “It was about the lawyers who have entered profession through backdoor,” he reiterated.
A lawyer has moved the Supreme Court seeking action against the satirical “Cockroach Janata Party” movement, alleging misuse and trademark registration of remarks made by CJI Surya Kant during a May 15 hearing, calling it selective extraction and sensational dissemination.
In a shocking disclosure, the Bar Council Chairperson said that nearly 35–40 per cent of advocates possess fake degrees and are practising in courts using fabricated certificates. Senior Advocate Manan Kumar Mishra added that the BCI is already taking corrective step
Two individuals have filed trademark applications for the viral ‘Cockroach Janata Party’ name, turning the satirical online movement into a legal flashpoint. The filings follow remarks by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant during a Supreme Court of India hearing.
