Hindu Legal Cell

Articles 35A, 370 required to be scrapped, In today's context both the articles are causing a lot of problems for the country as a whole. - Santosh Hegde

A petition filed in #SC by a Muslim Couple praying that Muslim women be allowed to enter & offer Namaz in mosques. Petition seeking a declaration that prohibition on entry of Muslim women into mosques is illegal,unconstitutional & violative of Articles 14,15,21,25 &29 of Consti.

Supreme Court Collegium recommends names of Justices Aniruddha Bose and A S Bopanna for their elevation as judges of the Supreme Court. Justice Bose is presently the Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court, and Justice Bopanna is the Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court.

Supreme Court questioned government authorities taking over administration of religious places, saying the task should be entrusted to devotees as it expressed concern over the failure of various state governments in managing temple affairs.

In a defamation case filed by Vivek Champanerkar, Thane session court has issued summons to Rahul Gandhi & Sitaram Yechury for blaming @RSSorg of murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh without any proof. Court has directed them to be present in court on 30 April.

#SupremeCourt set aside the Delhi HC order granting bail to a trader from Jammu and Kashmir, Zahoor Ahmad Shah Watali, an accused in terror funding case. NIA had moved the Court challenging the bail granted to the accused by Delhi HC, in terror funding case..

The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a petition challenging the Ordinance criminalising the practice of #TripleTalaq.

If Muslim man converts 14 yrs Hindu minor girl 2 Islam, marries+rapes her, he is not guilty of any crime coz as per Ind law, girl is a Muslim & as per Sharia, 14 yrs is not minor. https://www.news18.com/amp/news/india/delhi-court-aquits-man-of-rape-charges-against-minor-says-victim-was-adult-by-muslim-law-1724735.html#click=https://t.co/e8mIOcWrGP …

NIA filed a charge-sheet y'day against 3 accused- Delhi's Mohd Salman, Rajasthan's Mohd Salim&Mohd Kamran of Pakistan for re-routing funds from Pak to Dubai & India through hawala channels to create sleeper cells&logistic bases of Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation, in Delhi & Haryana.

Enforcement Directorate imposed penalty of Rs 14.40 lakh on Hurriyat Separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani for illegally possessing foreign exchange of 10,000 US Dollars. Amount confiscated.

Samjhauta Blast Case: All four accused - Swami Aseemanand, Lokesh Sharma, Kamal Chauhan and Rajinder Chaudhary have been acquitted by Special NIA Court in Panchkula.

2002 Godhra train burning case: A Special SIT Court in Ahmedabad sentences convict Md. Yakub Pataliya to life imprisonment.

Delhi High Court has today stayed an order passed by the Central Information Commission (CIC) declaring that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) come within the definition of “information” under Section 2(f) of the Right to Information Act, 2005.

A three-judge bench comprising CJI Ranjan Gogoi, Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna refuses to entertain a petition challenging re-promulugation of #TripleTalaq Ordinance. Petition dismissed as withdrwan.

Shri Babu Bajrangi gets bail from #SupremeCourt in the Naroda Patiya case of 2002 Gujarat riots. SC releases Bajrangi on medical grounds. He was undergoing life term.

NC, PDP mulling moving court against Centre's decision to extend 2 constitutional amendments to Jammu and Kashmir, which gives reservation benefit to SC, ST & economically weaker sections.

#SupremeCourt issues notice in a PIL on protecting army men during stone-pelting incidents in J&K. Apex Court issued notices to Centre, State & NHRC. The plea by army men's daughters also questions withdrawal of more than 9000 FIRs against stone-pelters by J&K Govt

Kerala: Two students, Mohammed Rinshad & Mohammed Faris, have been arrested under sedition charges for allegedly putting up posters saying 'Freedom for Kashmir' in the premises of a government college in Malappuram. Case registered.