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The Allahabad High Court has granted protection from harassment to a same-sex couple who have been staying in a live-in relationship for a long time now, but were facing resistance from their families and society on account of their sexual orientation.

In an important decision, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on October 30 directed Police authorities to ensure that FIRs should not be registered in matters involving civil disputes.

The Supreme Court, while upholding the order of a disciplinary Committee dismissing a police constable who was acquitted in a murder case, said: “Acquittal in a criminal trial does not conclude a disciplinary enquiry.”

In the compliance of the Allahabad High Court's previous order, the ASP of Varanasi appeared before the Court in the case of Shiv Kumar Trivedi, a missing student of Banaras Hindu University.

The Uttar Pradesh Police has registered 21 FIRs across the state in the aftermath of the alleged gang rape and death of a 19-year-old woman in Hathras. The FIRs have been filed against charges such as defaming the government, inciting communal tension, sedition, promoting enmity, and criminal conspiracy.

Justice P.B. Suresh Kumar, while dealing with a POCSO case, observed that certain disturbing facts concerning the investigation and trial of the cases had come to the court’s notice.

The Kerala High Court has observed that police officials should not reveal facts learned through investigation in criminal cases to the media. The court was hearing an appeal filed by an accused in the murder of diamond merchant Harihara Varma in 2012.

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Recent custodial deaths show that despite the laws of arrest being stringent in India, there are few safeguards like abroad. An effective legal system, education and good pay could mitigate police violence

Advocates have written to the Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court requesting him to take cognisance of several media reports regarding the ‘MP Farmer Suicide Bid’ on July 14th 2020.