State of Uttar Pradesh

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The list includes names of two former Chief Justices – Justices TS Thakur and RM Lodha – as well as two who recently retired – Justices Deepak Gupta and R. Banumathi.

UP govt agrees to issue a notification with changes in its committee as per SC instructions; SC says it will pass order only after govt notification

The government has asserted that the killing of gangster Vikas Dubey “can never be termed as ‘fake encounter’, looking at the incident in totality"

The gruesome murder of eight police personnel in the city of Kanpur and the subsequent encounter of Vikas Dubey and his associates pose very serious questions on the role of various stakeholders including the higher judiciary in India.

The Supreme Court said today (July 14) that it was thinking of forming a committee as was done in the case of the Hyderabad encounter case last year, to probe the alleged encounter killing of gangster Vikas Dubey and his five associates by Uttar Pradesh Police.

During his deposition yesterday (July 13) before CBI Special Judge SK Yadav, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh denied the allegations leveled against him and, in his defence, asked if there was any evidence to back these allegations.

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court dismissed as infructuous a petition seeking direction for constituting a judicial commission headed by a former/sitting Judge of the court to probe into the police encounter of Vikas Dubey by the UP Police Special Task Force Team on July 10.

Dreaded gangster ‘surrenders’ after days of eluding special police forces, while trying to offer prayers at Shiva temple.

Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Tripura yet to file reports on query sent by SC on safety at children’s homes. They get a Friday deadline