New Delhi: A Lucknow courtroom on February 1, Wednesday, signed orders to launch journalist Siddiqui Kappan, greater than a month after he was granted bail by the Allahabad excessive courtroom in a cash laundering case.

In keeping with LiveLaw, the periods courtroom accepted his bail bonds and he’s more likely to stroll out of jail both by Wednesday night or Thursday morning.

He was arrested in October 2020 whereas on his technique to cowl the Hathras gang-rape case in Uttar Pradesh, the place a Dalit lady was allegedly gang-raped and murdered by 4 ‘higher caste’ males.

On September 9,

New Delhi: Eight hundred and fifty days after he was arrested, a month after he was granted bail and a day after a courtroom signed orders to launch him, journalist Siddique Kappan walked free on Thursday, February 2.

“I’ll proceed my struggle towards draconian legal guidelines. They stored me in jail even after I bought bail. I don’t know who’s benefiting from my being in jail. These two years have been very robust, however I used to be by no means afraid,” Kappan advised NDTV after strolling out.

The Malayalam language journalist was arrested in October 2020 whereas on

New Delhi: At a time when the judiciary and the federal government are in a tussle over the method during which judges are appointed, the regulation ministry stated within the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, February 2, that as of January 31, the federal government has despatched again 18 names that had been proposed by the Supreme Courtroom collegium to be appointed as judges.

The regulation minister gave this data in response to a query from Communist Celebration of India (Marxist) MP John Brittas. The MP requested concerning the variety of proposals reiterated by the Supreme Courtroom collegium and actions taken

New Delhi: The Union authorities issued over 3,417 orders to dam Twitter URLs in 2022 – up from a mere eight instances in 2014, when the Narendra Modi-led authorities got here to energy, information accessed by way of Proper to Data (RTI) requests confirmed.

This development, in line with RTI activist Venkatesh Nayak, who obtained the info, signifies both a rise within the abuse of such platforms or rising “sensitivity of the Union authorities in direction of the views and opinions which aren’t consistent with its personal considering” or each.

Earlier, the Ministry of Data and Broadcasting’s central public data

New Delhi: The Union authorities has informed the Delhi excessive courtroom that Vice Information journalist Angad Singh has been “blacklisted” despite the fact that he’s an Abroad Citizen of India (OCI) cardholder, in response to Livelaw.

An affidavit filed by the Foreigners Regional Registration Workplace mentioned Singh, in his documentary, had depicted India “in a destructive method”. “Singh is a blacklist topic who was blacklisted on the occasion of the consulate-general of India with the remarks that if he ever arrived in India he ought to not be permitted to enter India and the consulate-general can be given details

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