06-Nov-2024 Bulldozer Justice: SC orders Rs 25 Lakhs interim Compensation for illegal demolition by UP Govt in 2019 The Supreme Court directs UP Govt to pay Rs 25 lakhs interim compensation for illegal demolition. During the hearing, the bench, led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud expressed serious dissatisfaction with the conduct of the authorities, terming their acts "high-handed”
30-Oct-2023 SC asks Union, state to eradicate manual scavenging completely, ensure compensation, rehabilitation and education The slew of guidelines issued in the petition direct implementation of acts prohibiting manual scavenging
06-Oct-2023 Police to pay for impingement on personal liberty: Delhi HC The Court held that the compensation amount should be recovered from the salaries of sub-inspectors Rajeev Gautam and Shamim Khan, the two police officers who put the petitioner in the lock-up.
13-Jul-2023 Death in Chains: Indian Courts award reparation for deaths in custody, deaths rise alarmingly CJP’s legal resource into Indian jurisprudence by Constitutional Courts in cases of custodial death
04-Feb-2022 Manual scavenger deaths: How effective is the law in preventing them? Low conviction rates in sewer deaths, lack of compensation and rehabilitation measures amount to denial of justice
22-Dec-2021 Karnataka’s Anti-Conversion Bill most stringent yet The Bill was torn to pieces by the Opposition