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Kanwar Yatra Restaurants Directive: Supreme Court Examinations Mahua Moitra’s Petition

The Supreme Court has provided interim relief against orders made by Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh that made restaurants along the Kanwar Yatra route mandatorily put up the owner’s and employee’s names. The order which was contested by Mahua Moitra and civil society groups, had been faulted for allowing religious profiling and having no legal basis. The Court held that such administrative measures have to be rooted in statutes and cannot be used to force disclosure of identity in the name of public order.

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Legal Implications of False Rape Allegations: Analyzing the Pune Techie’s Misleading Complaint Under Indian Law

The present article explores judicial consequences of false rape complaints in the Indian law by looking into evidential provisions of IPC and CrPC. It specifies provisions on misleading information such as 182 and 211 IPC and their implications to complainants. The article also emphasizes legal protection and evidence playing the most important role in proving falsity.

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Anti-Corruption Laws in Action: Penalties for the NMC Doctor’s Alleged Bribe in Medical College Assessments

The following paper will discuss the case of bribery with alleged NMC doctor during the testing in a medical college, including the details of this event and the punishment that will follow under the preamble of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 of India. It points out to the strict measures, blacklisting and sanctioning the involved college, taken by the NMC in upholding integrity in medical education.

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Kerala University Registrar Withdraws HC Plea in Bharat Mata Row After Reinstatement

Kerala University Registrar K.S. Anil Kumar pulled back seeking relief in the High Court to challenge the suspension after he was reinstated by the Syndicate. This was after a controversy in one of the portraits titled Bharat Mata. The High Court allowed the withdrawal, but recognizing the internal resolution, did not exclude wider institutional authority issues as the subject of future legal action.

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RG Kar and Law College Incidents: Kolkata’s Struggle with Women’s Safety

This article discusses two recent cases of the RG Kar Medical College Kolkata and a college law College of South Kolkata, with a view of bringing light to the issue of female safety in academic institutions. It outlines legal measures, societal reactions, and the available legal framework to the cases of these crimes, and stressed the necessity to deploy effective safety measures.

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