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    Persistent Failure On The Part Of The State Machinery: Allahabad HC Slams Delay In Minor Rape Victim’s Abortion Case
    Persistent Failure On The Part Of The State Machinery: Allahabad HC Slams Delay In Minor Rape Victim’s Abortion Case
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    Persistent Failure On The Part Of The State Machinery: Allahabad HC Slams Delay In Minor Rape Victim’s Abortion Case

    The Allahabad High Court sharply criticised state authorities for their persistent failure to act promptly on a plea seeking medical termination of pregnancy for a minor rape survivor with mental disability. The Court highlighted delays that adversely affected the victim’s access to timely medical care.

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    Callous Handling by State Agencies Cannot Wrong a Citizen: Allahabad High Court Slams Lucknow Cyber Cell For Acting On Bogus Complaint
    Callous Handling by State Agencies Cannot Wrong a Citizen: Allahabad High Court Slams Lucknow Cyber Cell For Acting On Bogus Complaint
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    Callous Handling by State Agencies Cannot Wrong a Citizen: Allahabad High Court Slams Lucknow Cyber Cell For Acting On Bogus Complaint

    The Allahabad High Court criticized the Lucknow Cyber Cell for its handling of a complaint arising from a matrimonial dispute and asked the husband to explain why damages should not be imposed for an allegedly bogus complaint that led to the prolonged blocking of his wife’s mobile number.

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    Major Relief| NCERT Judiciary-Corruption Chapter Row: Supreme Court Removes Ban on Authors 
    Major Relief| NCERT Judiciary-Corruption Chapter Row: Supreme Court Removes Ban on Authors 
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    Major Relief| NCERT Judiciary-Corruption Chapter Row: Supreme Court Removes Ban on Authors 

    The Supreme Court of India recalled adverse observations against academicians Michel Danino, Suparna Diwakar and Alok Prasanna Kumar over an NCERT Class 8 textbook chapter, while retaining criticism that the judiciary-related content remained “wholly undesirable and unnecessary.”

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    “Accepted the Police Reports as Gospel Truth”: Allahabad High Court Slams NHRC Over Custodial Death Closure
    “Accepted the Police Reports as Gospel Truth”: Allahabad High Court Slams NHRC Over Custodial Death Closure
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    “Accepted the Police Reports as Gospel Truth”: Allahabad High Court Slams NHRC Over Custodial Death Closure

    The Allahabad High Court criticised the National Human Rights Commission for allegedly accepting the police version “as gospel truth” while closing the 2009 custodial death case of disabled man Nahar Singh, also known as Sneh, in 2011.

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    Atta-Satta Marriages Involving Minor Girls Can Turn Them Into Bargaining Tools Between Families: Rajasthan High Court
    Atta-Satta Marriages Involving Minor Girls Can Turn Them Into Bargaining Tools Between Families: Rajasthan High Court
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    Atta-Satta Marriages Involving Minor Girls Can Turn Them Into Bargaining Tools Between Families: Rajasthan High Court

    The Rajasthan High Court granted divorce to a woman by overturning a Family Court order and criticised the customary “Atta-Satta” marriage system, especially involving minors, while holding that the lower court wrongly viewed the arrangement dispute as the sole cause of marital breakdown.

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    Aapne Apne Petition Me Badtameezi Ki Bhasa Likhi Hai: Supreme Court Slams Petitioner While Rejecting Caste Census Plea
    Aapne Apne Petition Me Badtameezi Ki Bhasa Likhi Hai: Supreme Court Slams Petitioner While Rejecting Caste Census Plea
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    Aapne Apne Petition Me Badtameezi Ki Bhasa Likhi Hai: Supreme Court Slams Petitioner While Rejecting Caste Census Plea

    The Supreme Court dismissed a plea to stay the caste Census and rebuked the petitioner for using improper language. The Bench sharply questioned then, “‘Aapne apne petition me badtameezi ki bhasa likhi hai, kisse apna petition likhwaya hai?’ “

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    "Judge's Order Being Set Aside Or Modified By Higher Court Not A Reflection Of His Ability, Integrity": Delhi High Court
    "Judge's Order Being Set Aside Or Modified By Higher Court Not A Reflection Of His Ability, Integrity": Delhi High Court
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    “Judge’s Order Being Set Aside Or Modified By Higher Court Not A Reflection Of His Ability, Integrity”: Delhi High Court

    The Delhi High Court said setting aside a lower court order does not question a judge’s integrity, with Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma making the remark while hearing an additional sessions judge’s plea seeking deletion of adverse observations.

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    Sanctity of the Lawyer-Client Relationship Violated: Delhi HC Slams DDA for Withholding Advocate’s Fees
    Sanctity of the Lawyer-Client Relationship Violated: Delhi HC Slams DDA for Withholding Advocate’s Fees
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    Sanctity of the Lawyer-Client Relationship Violated: Delhi HC Slams DDA for Withholding Advocate’s Fees

    The Delhi High Court criticized the DDA for delaying an advocate’s rightful fees, stressing that public bodies must act honourably. The court said such conduct undermines the rule of law and damages the sanctity of the lawyer-client relationship.

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    No Literary or Religious Text Should Be Cited in Court Without Proper Understanding: Allahabad HC Slams Lawyer for Quoting Ramcharitmanas
    No Literary or Religious Text Should Be Cited in Court Without Proper Understanding: Allahabad HC Slams Lawyer for Quoting Ramcharitmanas
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    No Literary or Religious Text Should Be Cited in Court Without Proper Understanding: Allahabad HC Slams Lawyer for Quoting Ramcharitmanas

    The Allahabad High Court criticised a lawyer for citing Ramcharitmanas to justify a nearly three-year delay in filing a writ petition, stressing that religious texts must not be misused in legal arguments. Justice Subhash Vidyarthi questioned reliance on chaupai.

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    Enjoy Your Retirement, Don’t Waste Court’s Time: Supreme Court Slams Ex-Civil Servant Over Savarkar Portrait PIL
    Enjoy Your Retirement, Don’t Waste Court’s Time: Supreme Court Slams Ex-Civil Servant Over Savarkar Portrait PIL
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    Enjoy Your Retirement, Don’t Waste Court’s Time: Supreme Court Slams Ex-Civil Servant Over Savarkar Portrait PIL

    Today, On 13th January, The Supreme Court criticized a retired civil services officer for filing a PIL seeking removal of Savarkar portraits, saying, “You are wasting the Court’s time. Please don’t indulge in all this. Enjoy your retirement now. Have a constructive role.”

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