Habeas Corpus Plea

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Delhi Police to produce a woman and her minor daughter, who have allegedly been illegally detained by her parents in Uttar Pradesh.

Bureaucrat-turned-politician Shah Faesal this morning withdrew his habeas corpus plea challenging his detention before the Delhi High Court.

The Delhi High Court today questioned the maintainability of a plea by two persons challenging the Delhi Assembly Speaker's order sending them to jail for throwing pamphlets and sloganeering in the House. A bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Najmi Waziri wondered how a habeas corpus plea, as filed by the two, can be heard by it when the rules u...

Madras High Court today ordered issue of notice to the Centre on habeas corpus pleas filed by two life convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, challenging their incarceration beyond 20 years in prison.

Ex-Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed was arrested dramatically by special operations police in the capital Male' on Tuesday. Helmeted police dressed in full riot gear, some with balaclava masks detained Mr Nasheed after a lower Hulhumale' court order. Sporadic violence broke out in the capital after the arrest that played out on Male's streets. Th...

The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Additional Director General of Police (prisons) to conduct a thorough probe into the alleged 'severe' assault of three under trial Nigerian nationals at Puzhal Central Prison by jail wardens on March 14. "When prisoners have sustained injuries and when they have claimed the injuries had been caused ...

The Bombay High Court has refused to allow a plea of a man for a live-in relationship with his cousin as their marriage could not materialise in view of prohibited degree of relationship under Hindu Marriage Act.Justice Ajay Khanvilkar and Justice U D Salvi observed, "the court cannot be asked to grant approval to an arrangement which is prohibited...

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Delhi Police to produce a woman and her minor daughter, who have allegedly been illegally detained by her parents in Uttar Pradesh.

Bureaucrat-turned-politician Shah Faesal this morning withdrew his habeas corpus plea challenging his detention before the Delhi High Court.

The Delhi High Court today questioned the maintainability of a plea by two persons challenging the Delhi Assembly Speaker's order sending them to jail for throwing pamphlets and sloganeering in the House. A bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Najmi Waziri wondered how a habeas corpus plea, as filed by the two, can be heard by it when the rules u...

Madras High Court today ordered issue of notice to the Centre on habeas corpus pleas filed by two life convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, challenging their incarceration beyond 20 years in prison.

Ex-Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed was arrested dramatically by special operations police in the capital Male' on Tuesday. Helmeted police dressed in full riot gear, some with balaclava masks detained Mr Nasheed after a lower Hulhumale' court order. Sporadic violence broke out in the capital after the arrest that played out on Male's streets. Th...

The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Additional Director General of Police (prisons) to conduct a thorough probe into the alleged 'severe' assault of three under trial Nigerian nationals at Puzhal Central Prison by jail wardens on March 14. "When prisoners have sustained injuries and when they have claimed the injuries had been caused ...

The Bombay High Court has refused to allow a plea of a man for a live-in relationship with his cousin as their marriage could not materialise in view of prohibited degree of relationship under Hindu Marriage Act.Justice Ajay Khanvilkar and Justice U D Salvi observed, "the court cannot be asked to grant approval to an arrangement which is prohibited...