Month: August 2022

Preventing a citizen from expressing a bonfide opinion against any bill or law passed by Parliament is violative of the right to free speech and principles of democracy, Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi have contended before the Delhi High Court while opposing a plea for a hate speech FIR against them in the February 2020 riots here. The Gandhis, in two separate affidavits, submitted no case was made out for the court to issue direction for registering an FIR against them and there was no requirement to order…

Justice UU Lalit will be the second CJI who was directly elevated to the Supreme Court bench from the Bar. Justice SM Sikri, who became the 13th Chief Justice of India in January 1971, was the first lawyer to be elevated directly to the top court bench in March 1964. Justice Uday Umesh Lalit was sworn in as the 49th Chief Justice of India today, a day after Justice NV Ramana retired from the highest judicial post. President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office of the Chief Justice of…

The police have arrested two people in the murder case filed after the death of Sonali Phogat. A day after security camera footage showed actor and BJP leader Sonali Phogat staggering on her way out of a nightclub in Goa, hours before she was declared dead, a new clip has emerged that shows her being forced to drink on the dance floor. The man in the video appears to be Sudhir Sangwan, one of her two associates who have been arrested as the police investigate the murder case. He was…

Arvind Kejriwal has come up with a new term to describe the demolition drives of the Modi government against opposition governments. The term is ‘serial killer’. While speaking in the special session of Delhi assembly, he said, “There is a new serial killer on the loose. Others form governments, but these people bring them down. They have trampled on democracy.”  Taking potshots at the media, he had tweeted earlier in Hindi – “There is a serial killer. He committed six murders. Now, there is another murder attempt. Same pattern. But…

Sonali Phogat was forcibly made to drink “some substance” mixed in water by her two associates, the police have said. A drugs case has been registered by the Goa Police and two more people have been arrested following the death of actor and BJP leader Sonali Phogat. This is in addition to the murder case filed earlier by the police and the arrest of two of her associates. The latest arrests include Edwin Nunes, owner of restaurant Curlie’s where Phogat was seen partying the night before her death, and a…