The ex-judge said he never asked for any security, but was "told I was facing threat from the Islamic State after I passed certain orders in a case" and was provided with two guards.
In a significant verdict, the Kerala High Court has held that discipline shall not be enforced by blocking the ways and means of students to acquire knowledge, as it directed re-admission of a girl student expelled from her college hostel for opposing a regulation on use of mobile phones.
A division bench of Chief Justice Hrishikesh Roy and Justice A K Jayasankaran Nambiar made the observation Monday while upholding a single bench order granting Rs 1 lakh compensation to a man who was illegally detained by a special squad of the Kerala Police in 2014 on suspicion of being a Maoist.
The court, while quashing criminal proceedings against a man and a woman, however, made it clear that publication or distribution of such photos is punishable under the law.
In his PIL, Chennithala demanded a probe alleging that a serious postal vote fraud has been practised by "pro-government" Police Association office bearers at the behest of top-level government functionaries in connection with Lok Sabha election.
This is the second case related to the Sabarimala protests in which the BJP leader had been granted bail.
"If the bail application is considered, it will send wrong signals and similar incidents will recur again," the court said.
Das, in his petition, said the high court should rule that the temple should be open to only devotees. The court did not accept this and pointed out that the Sabarimala temple was open to everyone.
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday had agreed to hear the anticipatory bail plea of the accused bishop, on September 25.
The bail plea sought by the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese in Jalandhar would be heard by Justice V Raja Vijayaraghavan later on Tuesday.
The priests, Abraham Varghese alias Sony varghese, Job Mathew and Jaise K George, had approached the court soon after the Crime Branch wing of Kerala Police slapped rape charges against four of the five Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church priests, including them, in the case.
KM Asokan, Hadiya’s father, said that he would consider moving a review petition in the Supreme Court against its judgement annulling her marriage with a Muslim man.
The questions from a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud came during the hearing of the Kerala conversion case.
A three-judge bench of the top court, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra observed that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) cannot go into marital status of Hadiya.
According to school management, the pubic display of affection by the students, a boy and a girl was in violation of school's decency code. The two later apologised to Vice Principal.
Kerala woman Hadiya, who grabbed the headlines over the love jihad controversy, appeared before the Supreme Court on Monday to present her side of the argument on her alleged forced conversion to Islam.
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