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Government clarifies a passport has never been definitive proof of citizenship, citing the Passports Act and Bombay High Court rulings. This statement, reiterating a settled legal position, aims to address recent opposition criticism. While a passport is a crucial travel document, citizenship is determined by the Citizenship Act, 1955, based on various records, not solely by possessing a passport.

Madras High Court upholds life term for a man who murdered his ex girlfriend and classmate in Karur College classroom. The court also slammed hostile witnesses.

Madhya Pradesh High Court noted that it is settled position in law that when discretion is vested in authority to exercise a particular power, the same is required to be exercised with due diligence and reasonably and rationally.

Mukesh Kumar spent his entire adult life fighting a murder accusation. The Delhi High Court has now said the prosecution failed to prove its case, acquitting him.

The high court noted that the woman or her family was not in a perilous financial crisis at present on account of the demise of her father, thus incapacitating the court from offering any relief to her.

Calling out the hostility of student witnesses in an engineering college murder case, the Madras High Court stated that the educated youths lacked the courage to speak the truth.

The government also pointed to judgments of the Bombay High Court from 2013 that had made it clear that possession of a passport does not establish citizenship.

Considering that criminal appeal had been pending for about 39 years, that appellants had lived under shadow of conviction for nearly four decades, Allahabad High Court released two accused aged over 60 years on probation.

The petition was filed by the BGA Owners Welfare Society, representing 400 odd allottees of the project situated near Mohali Golf Range, Sector 65--known as Beverly Golf Avenue

There is nothing in the law that bars Amit Prasad from holding a judge's office, but the recommendation itself is rare. | Latest News Delhi