Sir — The doctor from Uttar Pradesh, Kafeel Khan, a victim of political conspiracy, has now been released from prison on the order of the Allahabad High Court (“Hope again”, Sept 7)....

India seems to have grown used to the culture of arrests. Detention is followed by denial, often repeatedly, of bail. Yet the Supreme Court had in 1978 enunciated the principle that bail is the rule a...

A Banaras Hindu University student has been missing for over six months since Varanasi police picked him up from the campus gates, his father has told Allahabad High Court. Pradeep Trivedi, a farmer ...

Allahabad High Court on Tuesday quashed the detention of Dr Kafeel Khan under the National Security Act (NSA) and ordered his immediate release, saying the Uttar Pradesh government had done a “s...

The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday quashed the detention of Dr. Kafeel Khan under the National Security Act and ordered his immediate release, saying his speech at the AMU didn't promote hatred o...

The Uttar Pradesh government has constituted a single-member commission to probe the massacre of eight policemen in Kanpur Rural on July 3 and six police encounters, including that which killed gang l...

The Supreme Court on Friday decided to lay down a law on whether courts can ask a person to stop using his or her social media accounts as a condition for grant of bail in cases where the person is al...

Religion does not require loudspeakers. This was perhaps the most important lesson embedded in the Allahabad High Court’s ruling on azaan in response to a number of public interest litigations filed...

The Yogi Adityanath cabinet on Friday cleared an ordinance to recover damages for destruction to property, which a minister said would also have a provision for installing banners to name and shame th...

The Supreme Court on Thursday told the Uttar Pradesh government that there was “no law” that backed its action of putting up pictures, along with personal details, on roadsides of those accused of...