GUJARAT HIGH COURT RULED THAT A CONVERT DAUGHTER CAN GET DAD'S PROPERTY

The Gujarat High Court has ruled that a Hindu woman who married a Muslim man and refused her Hindu faith to hold Islam is entitled to inherit her father's ancestral property according to the Hindu Succession Act, and concluded that the ‘The Hindu Succession Act does not disqualify a convert (from inhering ancestral property). It only disqualifies the descendants of the convert’.

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TIMES OF INDIA NEWSPAPER

GOA TRIAL COURT FRAMED CHARGES AGAINST TEHELKA FOUNDER TARUN TEJPAL IN A RAPE CASE

A Goa trail court framed charges of rape and wrongful confinement against Tarun Tejpal, the founder of Tehelka magazine, in connection with an alleged rape case filed against him in 2013.

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TIMES OF INDIA NEWSPAPER

INDIAN EXPRESS NEWSPAPER

CONSUMER FORUM IMPOSED A FINE OF 10LAKH TO ESI HOSPITAL FOR CAUSING DISABILITY TO A PATIENT

A Hyderabad city-based district consumer forum has directed the ESI Hospital at Sanathnagar to pay a compensation of Rs 10.83 lakh to a patient who was rendered permanently disabled due to the inability of the hospital's doctor to correctly diagnose the vascular compromise caused by a road accident. Apart from the compensation, the patient was also awarded Rs 10,000 towards costs.

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TIMES OF INDIA NEWSPAPER

DELHI HIGH COURT ASKED CENTRE TO DEFINE RAPE WITHOUT GENDER BIAS

Based on the petition filed by Sanjjiiv Kkumaar, an activist seeking gender neutral definition of anti-rape criminal laws, Delhi High Court sought the Centre's response on the plea, seeking to declare ‘gender-specific’ sections related to rape and its punishment under Indian Penal Code (IPC) as unconstitutional.

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TIMES OF INDIA NEWSPAPER

DELHI HIGH COURT DISMISSED HONEYPREET'S ANTICIPATORY BAIL PLEA

The Delhi High Court rejected the transit anticipatory bail plea of Honeypreet, adopted daughter of jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim, who faces charges of sedition and inciting violence after Ram Rahim’s conviction in two rape cases.

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INDIAN EXPRESS NEWSPAPER

MAHMOOD FAROOQUI, 'PEEPLI LIVE' CO-DIRECTOR, ACQUITTED IN RAPE CASE

The Delhi High Court acquitted Peepli Live co-director Mahmood Farooqui of raping a US citizen, setting aside a lower court verdict sentencing him to seven years in jail. The court, in its judgment, said there were doubts whether such an incident took place in the manner alleged by the woman concerned, ‘and even if it did occur, (there is lack of clarity on) whether it was without the consent/will of the prosecutrix,’ it added.

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INDIAN EXPRESS NEWSPAPER

ANDHRA MUNICIPAL OFFICIAL HELD FOR AMASSING 'DISPROPORTIONATE ASSETS' WORTH RS 500 CRORE

Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials unearthed disproportionate assets worth over 500 crore of AP Town and Country Planning director Golla Venkata Raghu and his benami Nalluri Sivaprasad after raids in 23 different places across Andhra Pradesh.

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INDIAN EXPRESS NEWSPAPER

SUPREME COURT BAR ON COLLECTORS ON ASSETS WITHOUT HAVING A WILL

The Supreme Court has stopped governments from taking over private properties, including those belonging to Hindu religious and charitable institutions, through adjudications by collectors if the owners of these assets had no heirs and died without executing wills.

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TIMES OF INDIA NEWSPAPER

SEPARATE CABINS FOR PRISONERS SECURITY CHECK AFTER RAISE OF RIGHT TO PRIVACY BY PRISONER

Hyderabad Prisons Department Authorities were taken measures to set up separate cabins for conducting a security check, without strip-search in public for prisoners, this action is taken after a prisoner, who undergone strip-search in jail, has raised the demand for right to privacy.

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TIMES OF INDIA NEWSPAPER

SUPREME COURT ALLOWED TWO MINOR RAPE VICTIMS TO ABORT THEIR FOETUS

The Supreme Court has permitted two minor rape survivors from Delhi and Bangalore to medically terminate their pregnancies on the advice of the medical boards which examined them, and the court ordered for the preservation of the terminated foetus for DNA sampling during the investigation in both the cases.

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DECCAN CHRONICLE NEWSPAPER

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HEADMASTER GOT 55-YEAR JAIL FOR SEXUAL ABUSE OF 22 GIRLS

A government school headmaster in Madurai district, found to have sexually abused 22 girls, was sentenced to 55 years rigorous imprisonment by a special court in Madurai.

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INDIAN EXPRESS NEWSPAPER

ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT JUDGES UNDER SCANNER FOR MBBS ADMISSION SCAM

The Apex Court is examining two Judges of the Allahabad High Court for permitting a private medical college to admit students despite the Apex Court's order that no High Court would allow any college to fill MBBS students for academic year 2017-18.

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TIMES OF INDIA NEWSPAPER

FAMILY MEMBERS WILL FACE JAIL IF THEY HARASS MENTALLY-CHALLENGED PERSON

The Telangana government and NGOs are on the prowl to book those who harass mentally-challenged persons. If any person is found harassing the specially-challenged, they will be booked under the Indian Penal Code, and the government also constituted committees to identify mentally-challenged persons harassed and abandoned by their family and bring them to care homes.

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TIMES OF INDIA NEWSPAPER

INCOME TAX OFFICIALS AND DELHI LAWYER FACED INVESTIGATION IN MONEY LAUNDERING CASE

The CBI and the Enforcement Directorate have named three income tax commissioners and a Delhi lawyer in a money laundering investigation registered by the agencies earlier this month against Vadodara-based Sterling Biotech.

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TIMES OF INDIA NEWSPAPER

PLEA IN DELHI HIGH COURT FOR DIRECTION TO SPECIAL COURTS TO OBEY WITH POCSO LAW

The mothers of five minor sexual offence victims moved the Delhi High Court seeking direction to special courts to comply with the provisions of the POCSO Act relating to informing the families about the status of their cases, then the court issued notice to the Centre and state government for October 11 seeking their response on the petition filed by the five women whose daughters were victims of sexual abuse.

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TIMES OF INDIA NEWSPAPER

CBI PROBE IN THE CASE OF BOY’S MURDER AT RYAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

The Haryana government officially recommended a CBI investigation into the murder of Ryan International School student Pradhyumn Thakur.

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TIMES OF INDIA NEWSPAPER

LISTENING TO LOUD MUSIC WHILE DRIVING IS AN OFFENCE

The Road Transport Ministry has notified detailed regulations for drivers, which include dozens of dos and don'ts, and stated that violation of these norms notified under the Rules of Road Regulations is an offence under the Motor Vehicle Act. Now traffic police can impose higher fine and can even confiscate the licence if they find that ‘playing loud music while driving or watch videos except for navigation’ and ‘skipping stopping at pedestrian crossings or drive on footpath or do you use an air horn or multi-toned horn’, and ‘driving more than the specified speed limit while passing by a school or a hospital or a construction site’.

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TIMES OF INDIA NEWSPAPER

ROHINGYAS WILL BE DEPORTED, SAID CENTRE TO SUPREME COURT

The Centre through an affidavit told the Supreme Court that the decision to deport 40,000 Rohingya Muslims, who are illegal immigrants from Myanmar, has been taken keeping in mind national security threats, and also said that some Rohingyas are indulging in illegal and anti-national activities. Along with this the Centre also said that being a policy decision, the court should not interfere with it.

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DECCAN CHRONICLE NEWSPAPER

TIMES OF INDIA NEWSPAPER

CENTRE PLANS TO MAKE PAN MANDATORY FOR COMPANIES AND NGOs

The Central government is planning to make Permanent Account Number (PAN) mandatory for businesses as well as non-government organisations as it looks to close possible gaps for generation of black money. Sources told that the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has proposed amendments to the Income Tax Act as well as the Prevention of Money Laundering Act and the government is looking at a mechanism under which any entity with cumulative transactions of over Rs 2 lakh annually will have to comply with the regulations.

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TIMES OF INDIA NEWSPAPER

NO ABSOLUTE EXEMPTION TO CBI FROM RTI ACT, SAID BY DELHI HIGH COURT

The Delhi High Court held that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) cannot claim absolute exemption from disclosing information pertaining to allegations of corruption and human rights violations held by it under the Right To Information (RTI) Act, and the CBI has been denying information citing Section 24 of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, which says that its provisions will not apply on intelligence and security organisations, which also include IB, RAW, NIA and the Enforcement Directorate.

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HANS INDIA NEWSPAPER

SC TO HEAR PLEA FOR CBI PROBE INTO CLASS 4 STUDENT’S DEATH IN GHAZIABAD

The Supreme Court will hear on September 18 a plea for a CBI probe into the death of 9-year-old Armaan Sehgal in School campus, Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh.

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The Hindu Newspaper

SC ISSUES NOTICE CENTRE, CBSE ON SAFETY OF STUDENTS IN SCHOOLS

After the death of a student in Ryan International school in Gurugram, the supreme court agreed to examine the safety measures followed by schools across the country, to prevent such incidents in future.

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Times Of India, Deccan Chronicle and Indian Express Newspapers

SC AGREES TO HEAR PLEA FOR BAN ON BLUE WHALE GAME

The Supreme Court, agreed to hear a petition for an immediate judicial direction to the government to ban an online game ‘Blue Whale’, which may be behind the deaths or attempted suicides of teenagers and young adults hooked to it.

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Deccan Chronicle, The Hindu and Times Of India Newspapers

BLUE WHALE MENACE: SMARTPHONES BANNED IN LUCKNOW SCHOOLS

Use of smart phones by children in schools has been banned in Lucknow by the Education Department, in a bid to keep them away from the ‘Blue Whale Challenge, an online dare game linked to teen deaths across the world.

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Deccan chronicle Newspaper

ADVOCATES RAISE BAR, SEEK JUSTICE FOR GAURI LANKESH

 Condemning the brutal murder of Bangalore journalist Gauri Lankesh for being outspoken about her beliefs, scores of advocates from Hyderabad High Court, staged a protest.

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Times Of India Newspaper

POLICE ADVISORY TO PARENTS ON BLUE WHALE CHALLENGE

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), CCS, Avinash Mohanty,  advised to the parents, educational institutes and children, that there is no single incident of Blue Whale challenges in the city so far. Stating that the Blue Whale phenomenon was not a game but a challenge where teenagers were targeted and invited to take up dares by administrators on social media.

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Times of India and Indian Express Newspapers

NO OPERATIONS IN NURSING HOMES WITHOUT ICU: SC

Supreme Court said that the, nursing homes without an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) can’t carry out surgeries,  an absence of an ICU posed danger to the patient’s life.

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Times Of India Newspaper

BLUE WHALE SUICIDE BID AVERTED IN PATHANKOT

In order to complete the Blue Whale game challenge a 16-year-old boy who is studying in Class XI in Pathankot, tried to kill himself by hanging from a ceiling fan, but was saved by his family members. 

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Deccan Chronicle and Indian Express Newspapers

17-YEAR-OLD WAS SAVED FROM BLUE WHALE CHALLENGE, ATTEMPTS SUICIDE AGAIN

 A 17-year-old girl, who was rescued after she tried to commit suicide by jumping into a lake in Jodhpur as part of the Blue Whale Challenge, made another attempt to kill herself by consuming some tablets, She was rushed to a private hospital and admitted in ICU.

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Times of India Newspaper

SIT SET UP TO PROBE INTO JOURNALIST GAURI LANKESH’S KILLING

The cold-blooded murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru unleashed outrage across the country, the Karnataka government quickly set up an IGP-headed Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the killing. 

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Deccan Chronicle, The Hindu, Indian Express and Times Of India Newspapers

HC STRIPS OFFICIAL TAG FROM GALLA'S OLYMPIC CHAPTER

The Hyderabad High Court stayed recognition accorded to the Association led by the MP and directed IOA to refer the ongoing tussle between the rival bodies to a committee of arbitrators.

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Times Of India Newspaper

JODHPUR GIRL ‘PLAYING’ BLUE WHALE JUMPS INTO LAKE, RESCUED

A teenage daughter of a Border Security Force (BSF) trooper has been rescued from a Jodhpur lake in Rajasthan, preventing her from becoming the latest victim of the online Blue Whale game. 

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Times of India, The Hindu, and Indian Express Newspapers

CENTRE DEFENDS LAW ON CHILD MARRIAGE

Centre defended in the Supreme Court, that the exception provided in Section 375 IPC, excluding intercourse with a minor girl involved in child marriage as an offence, to protect the institution of marriage.

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Deccan Chronicle, The Hindu, and Times Of India Newspapers