Follow Us on Google News New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) The Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognisance of student suicides at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur (West Bengal) and Greater Noida’s Sharda University, asking whether the educational institutes promptly reported the incidents to the police for the registration of FIRs. A bench … Read more
Follow Us on Google News New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of the suicide of a man after alleged physical torture in police custody at Delhi’s Dwarka North Police Station. A day after the victim was taken to police custody for questioning in connection with … Read more
Follow Us on Google News New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) A letter petition has been addressed to the Chief Justice of India, B.R. Gavai, urging the Supreme Court to take suo motu cognizance of the heinous gang-rape of a law student within her college premises at Kasba in South Kolkata. On June 25, a first-year … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, June 27 (IANS) The National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken suo motu cognizance of the rape of a law college student within her college premises on Wednesday night, in which three persons including a former and two present students of the same college have been arrested. In a … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Bengaluru, June 5 (IANS) Taking cognizance of the stampede incident near the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, which resulted in the deaths of at least 11 people, the Karnataka High Court on Thursday registered a suo motu Public Interest Litigation (PIL) and sought a report from the Congress-led Karnataka government. The … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Chandigarh, May 26 (IANS) The Haryana Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of an alleged assault by a teacher on a Class 11 student, who suffered a fractured hand, and issued a directive for action. The case pertains to a private school in Jhajjar district where teacher Sonu, … Read more
Follow Us on Google News New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report highlighting the pollution caused by the “illegal” bleaching units in Haryana’s Panipat. A bench headed by Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava registered an original application suo motu (on its own) following a … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 7 (IANS) BJP MP Jyotirmay Singh Mahato, on Monday, asked Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna to take cognizance against the alleged attacks on the judiciary by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the recent order of the apex court cancelling 25,753 school jobs in West Bengal In … Read more