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The real story behind Assam’s 3,000-bigha land row

A video clip from a Gauhati High Court hearing has been raging across social media. It shows Justice Sanjay Kumar Medhi, visibly astonished, reacting to the allotment of 3,000 bighas of land in Assam’s Dima Hasao district to a private cement company.

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Vijay Bishnoi sworn in as Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court

Justice Vijay Bishnoi sworn in as the new Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court, with dignitaries present.

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SC makes absolute it's order granting interim anticipatory bail to Youth Congress president Srinivas BV in harassment case

The Supreme Court on Friday made 'absolute' its earlier order granting interim anticipatory bail to the Indian Youth Congress president Srinivas BV, in an alleged harassment case filed against him.

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President Droupadi Murmu appoints judges in Orissa, Gauhati and Kerala High Courts

President Droupadi Murmu appointed advocate Sibo Sankar Mishra and judicial officer Ananda Chandra Behera as judges of the Orissa High Court and Budi Habung as an additional judge in Gauhati High Court and justice CS Sudha as a Judge in Kerala High Court. Read further on Dynamite News:

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India stands for the rule of the law, says Chief Justice

Inaugurating the new building of the Gauhati High Court’s Aizawl Bench, Chandrachud said that the country stands for the rule of the law and peaceful resolution of problems.

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Manipur violence | Supreme Court shifts 27 CBI cases, including crimes against women, to Assam

Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud told petitioners that the Supreme Court was not asking the Assam government to nominate the pre-trial judges to look into cases arising out of the CBI’s investigation into the Manipur violence, but the Gauhati High Court Chief Justice Sandeep Mehta. Issuing a series of…

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Centre notifies appointment and elevations of several judges in different High Courts

The Central Government on Saturday notified the appointment and elevations of several Judges in Himachal Pradesh, Telangana, Bombay Calcutta, Gauhati, Kerala and Chhatisgarh High Courts. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Supreme Court sets aside High Court order dismissing plea challenging Mizoram Government’s notification on Scheduled Tribe quota

The Supreme Court on Monday set aside a Gauhati High Court order dismissing a petition seeking to quash a Mizoram Government notification which arbitrarily sub-classified the Scheduled Tribes of the State while allegedly discriminating against non-Mizo Scheduled Tribes.

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Clean chit for former Assam CM Prafulla Kumar Mahanta in ‘secret killings’ case

The Gauhati High Court upheld its September 2018 order absolving former Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta of the charges of orchestrating a series of extrajudicial killings more than two decades ago.

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Assam government fails to submit report on encounter probes

The Assam government had in an affidavit said 54 people were killed in encounters since May 2021.

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Assam: Victor Das suspended from post of govt school teacher

GUWAHATI: Assam's vlogger and coaching institute instructor Victor Das, who was arrested over his cash-for-jobs allegation in the just concluded written exams for recruitments in various government posts in the state, has been suspended from his post of government school teacher. He was granted interim bail on September 16.

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Two Additional Judges of Gauhati High Court take oath

Gauhati High Court Chief Justice Rashmin Manharbhai Chhaya on Tuesday administered the oath to two new Additional Judges, Sushmita Phukan Khound and Mitali Thakuria. Read more on Dynamite News:

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Gauhati HC acquits man held guilty of murder by lower court in 2017

GUWAHATI: Gauhati High Court has acquitted a man, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by a lower court in 2017 in a murder case that took place in Assam’s Jorhat in 2014 after the evidence was found inconclusive.

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Gauhati HC denies bail to youth held for supporting Ulfa

GUWAHATI: The Gauhati High Court recently denied bail to a 24-year-old UAPA accused, who allegedly propagated ULFA (I) ideology on Facebook.

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Gauhati High Court asks Assam to file updated probe report encounter cases since May 2021

Altogether 161 encounters took place within 13 months of Himanta Biswa Sarma becoming the Chief Minister

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Gauhati High Court registers case on custodial death leading to police station arson

The court asked the Assam government to respond by August 17

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One year prison term for Mizoram BJP MLA, 12 others in graft case

Buddha Dhan Chakma said he would approach the Gauhati High Court against the verdict

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51 killed by Assam police since May 2021, High Court told

The Gauhati High Court on Tuesday heard a PIL petition on fake encounters.

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Guwahati: Don Bosco University vice chancellor Stephen Mavely gets bail in 'abetment to suicide' case

GUWAHATI: Assam Don Bosco University vice-chancellor Father Stephen Mavely, 72, who was remanded in two-day police custody by a lower court here in Guwahati on Wednesday in connection with a case of "abetment to suicide", was granted bail by Gauhati High Court on Thursday observing that "there is nothing on…

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Gauhati High Court seeks coordinates of coal mining area in Assam elephant reserve

Operations were resumed in March, almost two years after they were suspended following reports of illegal mining in forestlands

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The confusion over the status of the Assam NRC

Why are the members of the Foreigners Tribunals and the State Coordinator of the National Register of Citizens at loggerheads?

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Security forces personnel cannot ignore wildlife crime while on security job: judge

Police, border guards, paramilitary forces and Army require coordinated efforts with other stakeholders to check such crime, says Gauhati High Court’s acting Chief Justice

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Supreme Court to have full strength of 34 judges

Two new judges have been appointed to the Supreme Court, says Law Minister; Gujarat High Court judge Justice Jamshed Burjor Pardiwala in line to become Chief Justice of India

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Once declared ‘Indian’ by FTs, a person cannot be branded as foreigner later: Gauhati HC

The Court was dealing with a batch of writ petitions concerning the question of the applicability of the principle of ‘res judicata’ in the proceeding before Foreigners Tribunal

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Gauhati High Court stays lower court’s observations in Jignesh Mevani case

However, it clarifies that the order should not be interpreted as a stay on grant of bail by district judge

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