Indore: A video purportedly showing a 12-year-old boy from a minority community made to chant religious slogans after being stripped in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore has surfaced on social media, following which the Indore police registered an FIR against the accused, three minors. The incident took place on Wednesday afternoon. A 45-second video shows the boy […]
New Delhi: Retired Karnataka High Court chief justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, who had headed the bench which delivered the hijab verdict, on Wednesday took charge as the chairperson of the 22nd Law Commission. The current law panel was constituted on February 21, 2020, but its chairperson and members were appointed on Monday, months before the […]
Mumbai: India’s voice on the global stage can only gain in authority and credibility from a strong commitment to inclusivity and respect for human rights at home, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday. Addressing students of the IIT Bombay here, Guterres said, “As an elected member of the Human Rights Council, India […]
SC to hear pleas against release of 11 convicts on Nov 29 New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday remarked the Gujarat government’s reply to pleas challenging the remission granted to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case is very bulky wherein a series of judgments have been quoted but factual statements are missing. […]
Deoband: Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband on Sunday said it has no objections to the Uttar Pradesh government’s survey of private madrassas but the whole system of such institutions should not be denigrated if a few don’t follow rules. At a conference of representatives from various madrassas here, president of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind Maulana Arshad […]
New Delhi: Socio-religious organisation Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind approached the Delhi High Court on Friday to oppose a petition challenging certain Waqf Act provisions that grant a special status to waqf properties. Petitioner and lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay said he is “objecting to the intervention” and claimed that the applicant body is a “separatist organisation” that had […]
New Delhi: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has termed “disappointing” the Varanasi district court’s decision on the maintainability of the Gyanvapi mosque case and urged the government to implement the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, with full force. The Varanasi district court on Monday said it will continue to hear […]
Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court on Monday fixed September 28 as the next date of hearing in a case pertaining to a petition filed by Anjuman Intezamia Masjid of Varanasi challenging the maintainability of an original suit filed in 1991 in the Varanasi district court. The original suit has sought the restoration of the ancient […]
Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Friday accused the BJP government of interfering in the running of private madrassas in Uttar Pradesh on the pretext of conducting surveys and “terrorising” the Muslim community. In a tweet in Hindi, Mayawati said, “The complaints of the Muslim community being exploited, neglected and being affected by […]
New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government’s move to conduct a survey of madrassas in the state is a malicious attempt to disparage this education system, the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind on Tuesday said, asserting to defend the Islamic seminaries at all costs. It announced the launch of a helpline for madrassas in case any of them encounter […]