Author: Vani Dua

Allahabad High Court grilled the management committee of the Gyanvapi mosque situated in Varanasi when it said that it fears that the mosque can fall down. The court asked the committee how it will trust the court’s ruling if it is finding it hard to trust the assurances that the ASI (Archaeological Survey of India) is giving. The court also expressed serious ‘doubts’ over the survey. The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the Varanasi District Court’s order allowing the ASI survey till the evening of 26th July. The apex court allowed the Masjid Committee to knock on the doors of…

A Delhi Court on Monday ruled on the 2012 Geetika Sharma suicide case, acquitting the accused HLP (Haryana Lokhit Party) president Gopal Kanda.  While a detailed copy of the court order is still not out yet, the Additional Sessions Judge Vikas Dhull also acquitted Aruna Chadha, the second person accused in the suicide case of the air hostess. Timeline of the case Geetika Sharma was an air hostess working under Gopal Kanda’s MLDR Airlines. She was later promoted to the position of director in one of the offices of Mr. Kanda. On 5th August 2012, she was found dead at…

Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankar declared that Sanjay Singh is suspended after a motion proposed by the Union minister (as well as the Leader of the House, Rajya Sabha) Piyush Goel was approved. The senior leader of the AAP was also reprimanded by the RS chairman and Vice President Dhankar earlier after he continuously protested against the central government’s bill to replace the ordinance regarding control over services in Delhi. Previously, while protesting against the farm laws in 2020, Sanjay Singh was among the 8 MPs suspended from the Rajya Sabha as they were found practising ‘unparliamentary’ behaviour. Vice President…

The Manipur government is planning to bring Meiteis via special ATR flights that run between Aizawl-Imphal and Aizawl-Silchar. After PAMRA (the Peace Accord MNF Returnees’ Association, an organisation comprising the former militants in Mizoram) requested Meiteis residing in Mizoram to leave the state for their safety, the government is planning to bring people as a precautionary measure.  The organisation held that there is ‘anger among Mizo youths’ over the incident that took place in May and came to the attention of people on Wednesday. The video of two women being disrobed and sexually assaulted that shook the entire country has…

The Supreme Court on Friday, 21st July, dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking the revocation of CFBC clearance given to Om Raut’s film Adipurush. A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising justices S.K. Kaul and Sudhanshu Dhulia dismissed the petition that was filed by lawyer Mamta Rani stating that the film’s depiction of Hindu gods was against the statutory provisions given under the Section 5B of the Cinematograph Act, 1952.  The court stayed all proceedings against the film ongoing in several high courts, as well as issued a notice on the appeal made by the filmmakers. ‘Adipurush’, a…