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Bombay High Court acquits man in rape case

Source – indianexpress.com The Bombay High Court acquitted a man who had allegedly raped his neighbour when she had left her house to attend to nature’s call in an open field. In 2014, the Sessions Court convicted the accused on circumstantial evidence, as the prosecution had failed to examine the woman. The accused was sentenced

PIL: Why does Supreme Court work for only 193 days in entire year?

Source – indiatoday.in Is it not time to discontinue long vacations for courts, especially the Supreme Court (SC), when the Indian judiciary is grappling with backlog to the tune of a whopping 3.3 crore cases across the country? A first-of-its-kind public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed before the SC demanding that court vacations, a British era practice,

Supreme Court refuses to urgently hear plea against invitation to Congress-JDS to form govt

Source – The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to urgently hear a petition challenging the Karnataka governor’s invitation to the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular) to constitute a new administration. The plea, which was filed by the Hindu Mahasabha, describes the post-poll coalition between the Congress and the JD (S) (who were campaign rivals)