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Social reservations need not be maintained by Educational Institution administered and managed by Minorities: Madras High Court

“State Government is within its right to impose the threshold cap of admitting students from minority community to 50 percent”

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Explained| How in the fight between Justice LC Victoria Gowri’s ‘eligibility’ versus ‘suitability’ to become a judge, ‘eligibility’ won

Supreme Court dismissed the petitions filed by lawyers from Madras HC alleging that Gowri is disqualified from being appointed a judge of a Constitutional Court, as there was no fruitful consultation between the executive and the collegium regarding her antecedents that could reveal her biasness against the minorities in the country.

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

AFCHPR| Republic of Kenya directed to identify and demarcate the Ogiek ancestral land and make monetary reparations to the community for the moral and material prejudices suffered

African Court on Human and People’s Rights (‘AFCHPR’): While deciding the instant matter concerning the eviction of a Kenyan indigenous minority ethnic

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Victims of the Kandhamal Communal Riots to be given additional compensation

Supreme Court: In a public interest litigation seeking directions to the concerned authorities to provide proper and adequate facilities in refugee camps,