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SC likely to quash FIRs against student protesters, exempts those with serious criminal recordsThe Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated it may quash FIRs against student protesters involved in last month’s nationwide agitations over exa...- SC to set up high-powered panel to probe allegations of police excesses during NEET protestThe Supreme Court will form a high-powered committee to examine police excesses. This panel will include retired judges and former senior p...
- Delhi Police defends use of force at 'Chalo Sansad' protest, says agitation 'hijacked' by 'history-sheeters'Jantar Mantar protests: Delhi Police has defended its use of force during Chalo Sansad protest, asserting that it was overtaken by elements...
- CJP urges Centre, BJP states to withdraw FIRs after SC clarifies order on student protestersThe Supreme Court clarified its order on withdrawing FIRs against student protesters. The Cockroach Janta Party expects the government to i...
- States can close or withdraw FIRs against students who participated in NEET protests: Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court clarified that governments can withdraw FIRs against NEET protesters. This applies to students without grave criminal ant...
- Railway’s AI-powered face recognition system intercepts ‘hardcore habitual offenders’An Artificial Intelligence system has successfully identified habitual offenders at Visakhapatnam Railway Station. The AI system, named Rai...
- SC to hear on Mar 18 plea to debar poll candidates charged for serious offencesThe Supreme Court is set to hear a plea seeking to debar candidates with serious charges from polls on March 18. The plea, based on increas...
- SC directions on criminal antecedents of candidates: Election Commission writes to parties about fund creationThe EC was also directed to create a separate cell which will also monitor the required compliances so that the court can be apprised promp...
- Political parties to publish info regarding criminal antecedents of candidates on homepage of websites: SCThe apex court directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to create a dedicated mobile application containing information published by...
- Plea in SC to debar persons on trial in serious offence cases from contesting electionsThe PIL, which is likely to come up for hearing in the coming days, sought a direction to the Centre and the Election Commission of India (...
- Election Commission to set dates for declaring criminal recordExisting EC guidelines say that every candidate must declare their criminal antecedents three times before an election -- in a national dai...
- Bihar parties hail poll panel move on ‘criminal’ nomineesThis will be the first state election where the EC will follow a Supreme Court order, which in February directed parties to give reasons as...
- Political parties should not give tickets to candidates with criminal background: ECI to SCDespite the apex court's direction in 2018, the criminalisation of politics is going on and some alternate mechanism has to be found, the E...
- SC refuses to hear PIL seeking to restrain parties from fielding candidates with criminal recordA bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, however, allowed BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay, who is the petitioner, to give a rep...
- Supreme Court to examine whether 'netas' need to declare every offenceSC stayed a Patna High Court order setting aside the election of BJP MP Chhedi Paswan and said it would examine whether politicians need to...
- Give bail to repeat offenders cautiously: SCA bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla C Pant said discretionary power of courts to grant bail must be exercised in a judicious manne...
- Candidates can be disqualified if information not disclosed: Supreme CourtCandidates fighting elections can be disqualified if they fail to disclose information about assets and liabilities of even their spouse an...
- Ray of hope: Voter push and legislative pull can rid politics of criminalsWhile this is now history, 29.8 per cent of MPs had pending criminal cases, 14 per cent had serious — violent crimes, forgery, theft and ch...
- UP Election: No criminal candidates for Lucknow WestThe poll arena in the state maybe full of candidates with criminal antecedents but Lucknow seems to be a welcome exception.
- Education and criminality in Gujarat politicsOne starts wondering whether politics makes the more educated also more criminally prone! A safe conjecture could be that the more educated...
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