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Mumbai: The fundamental rights of a citizen to freely travel through the territory of India can't be "scuttled" on a mere apprehension of a "law-and-order situation", staging demonstrations, or past FIRs, Justice Bharati Dangre of Bombay high court said on Tuesday. Justice Dangre quashed a magistrate's order that barred a Nashik man from Niphad from entering the Yeola legislative assembly constituency between Nov 18 and 24.For the Nov 20 poll, the present MLA Chhagan Bhujbal of the NCP is pitted against Uday Sangle from the NCP-SP for the hot contest in Yeola.Justice Dangre said, "Absolute prohibition on holding meetings or processions altogether would defeat the right guaranteed by the Constitution, and the state can only make regulations in aid of the right of assembly of citizens but ca...

The new statue | Photo Credit: PTI The addition of the open-eyed Justitia in the Supreme Court of India has led to public debate. The ‘new’ six-foot white statue is a sari-clad ornamented goddess-like figure without a blindfold, holding scales in her right hand and a copy of the Constitution of India in her left hand. It signified, said then Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.Y. Chandrachud, who commissioned the statue in October 2024, that “Law is not blind; it sees everyone equally”. This is, historically speaking, puzzling since the Bombay High Court has an open-eyed Justitia statue along with a Statue of Mercy — the open-eyed justice is as much part of colonial iconography as the blindfolded figure of justice.E...

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Bombay High Court Upholds Right to Travel, Quashes Entry Ban Before Yeola Elections | India News – Times of India

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