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“This is wrong what is happening in UP. Every day in and day out, civil matters are being converted into criminal… This is an absolute breakdown of the rule of law,” Chief Justice of India Sanjiv ...

The Supreme Court on Monday said there was a “complete breakdown of rule of law in Uttar Pradesh" after coming across FIRs filed by the state police in civil cases. A bench comprising Chief Justice ...

More than 3,500 people have been killed across the country by the 7.7 magnitude tremor ... Mingun has been embroiled in the civil war for years now. “The houses of the people have been destroyed ...

It is absurd. Disputes over civil issues cannot be turned into offences… There is a complete breakdown of rule of law in Uttar Pradesh. Converting a civil matter into a criminal case is not ...

Many South Sudanese fear a repeat of the country’s last civil war, which raged from 2013 to 2018 and killed some 400,000 people. In an ominous development, Machar’s party says his arrest has ...

Therefore, this is an example of the necessity of making a Law on ‘Uniform Civil Code’," the order of Justice Hanchate Sanjeevkumar said. "The enactment of legislation on Uniform Civil Code as ...

"The country needs a Uniform Civil Code in respect of Personal Laws and religion," the Court on April 4 observed, "only then the object of Article 14 of the Constitution of India will be achieved." ...