Counterview Desk Insisting that dissent is the beating heart of a democracy, India's premier human rights organisation, People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), has demanded wi… Read More
By Kavita Srivastava, V Suresh* The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) expresses its deep disappointment with respect to the verdict of the Supreme Court in `Supriyo v Unio… Read More
Counterview Desk The top human rights organisation, People’s Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL), condemning recent National lnvestigation Agency (NIA) raids on human rights defender… Read More
Context: Arrests and questioning of individuals associated with NewsClick, a news portal, have highlighted concerns about the potential misuse of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UA… Read More
Counterview Desk Asking the Manipur police to stop criminalising basic tools of enquiry like fact finding and analysis, the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has demanded… Read More
The Supreme Court on Tuesday referred a batch of pleas challenging Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code which criminalises the offence of sedition, to a Constitution bench of at least five… Read More
Counterview Desk Even as condemning the registration of FIR against leaders of the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) by Manipur police on July 8 for conducting a fact-finding e… Read More
The Supreme Court on Tuesday came down heavily on the Union of India and the State of Nagaland for not implementing 33 percent reservation to women in urban municipalities under Part-IXA of… Read More
Indian Supreme Court on Tuesday directed a day-to-day hearing of a clutch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of Article 370 abrogation and bifurcation of occupied Jammu and… Read More
About Writ Petition:
In legal terms, a writ refers to a formal written order issued by a court or other judicial or administrative authority. Writs are typically used to direct a person or a… Read More
By Our Representative Asserting that the Uttar Pradesh government should take responsibility for the attack on well-known Dalit leader Chandrashekhar Azad and the suspicious death of Da… Read More
Election Petition Important Judgements Supreme Court of India
The Supreme Court of India has delivered several landmark judgments on election law, which have played a fundamental and crit… Read More
Counterview Desk The People's Union for Civil Liberties, seeking a halt to encounter killings in UP and end to what it calls "state lawlessness", has said that doubts have arisen… Read More
Counterview Desk The People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has asked the Government of India to stop witch-hunt of journalists and human rights activists in Kashmir. Seeking the re… Read More
Counterview Desk Taking strong exception to Delhi police barring a meeting on media freedom in Kashmir, well-known human rights organisation, People’s Union for Civil Liberties, (… Read More
Counterview Desk In a statement, the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Gujarat, condemning the “inhuman demolitions” done by the Government of Gujarat over th… Read More
Mumbai, Feb 8 (IANS) Police in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri district have arrested realty agent Pandharinath Amberkar in connection with the death of a Marathi journalist Shashikant Warishe… Read More
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The Gauhati High Court has observed that pleadings in a petition filed by a qualified legal professional is expected to be of better quality and therefore, the same cannot be treated in equ… Read More
Counterview Desk Taking strong exception the Delhi police raids on news portal The Wire’s editors and seizure of their electronic devices, India’s premier human rights organ… Read More
Counterview Desk Insisting upon the need to resist the Modi government's alleged attempt to "discredit and undermine" independence of the judiciary, Dr V Suresh, National General Secret… Read More
None of the above, or NOTA is one option present in an EVM. Electronic voting machines (EVMs) used in the general elections since 2014 has this option. People may vote for NOTA if they belie… Read More
By Ashit Kumar Srivastava and Viraj Lahane
The principle of universal adult franchise states that all citizens above a fixed age have the right to vote. No one can be denied this right b… Read More
Supreme Court on Wednesday took a serious view of people still being prosecuted under Section 66A of the IT Act 2000, and directed that no citizen should be prosecuted under the provision, w… Read More
The female Muslim students have been facing a hard time, attending schools and colleges after the Karnataka High Court verdict was issued on March 15, 2022, which banned the wearing of hijab… Read More
India completed 75 years of independence on 15 August 2022. That “special day,” however, was one of the blackest days in the history of post-independent India. It was indeed a te… Read More
The Supreme Court on Thursday made scathing remarks against the Nagaland government for delaying the implementation of 33 per cent reservation for women in the state’s local body elec… Read More
The Government of Nagaland on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that they have agreed to implement 33 per cent reservation for women in civic bodies.
A bench of Justice S K Kaul and J… Read More
The Supreme Court will on Monday hear the plea filed by Advocate Ehtesham Hashmi seeking an independent probe into the alleged communal violence in Tripura during civic polls last year. … Read More
The Tripura Police has booked a Delhi-based lawyer under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for allegedly sharing fake information about the Tripura violence on social media… Read More
Close your eyes, and imagine the Statue of Liberty. You’ll probably picture its gigantic size, powerful posture, its intense face, the seven spikes of its crown, the way she’s ho… Read More