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Supreme Court Weekly Round-up: December 16, 2024 To December 22, 2024

Index Citations New India Assurance Co. Ltd. v. Velu & Anr. The court reduced the death sentence of the accused to a sentence of imprisonment for 25 years as “the present is not a case where it can be said that the possibility of reformation is completely ruled out.” Case Details: Ayub Khan v. State of Rajasthan Citation: 2024 LiveLaw …

Jagannathpur: It is 9am and 41-year-old Geeta Koda, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate from Jagannathpur in Jharkhand is already campaigning in Arahasa, a remote village in Goelkera, around 120 km south west of Jamshedpur. The lone Lok Sabha member of the Congress from Jharkhand, Geeta Koda joined the BJP in February 2024 just ahead of the LoK Sabha polls. Koda …

Jharkhand Elections 2024: Tribal Identity Politics Takes Centre Stage

Published : May 24, 2024 18:59 IST - 12 MINS READ In the Lok Sabha election in Jharkhand, a State with a tribal population of 26 per cent, the January 31 arrest of Chief Minister Hemant Soren in a case of alleged land grab has resulted in identity politics taking centre stage. Hemant Soren’s arrest seems to have papered over …

The Singhbhum Lok Sabha constituency, one of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand, is reserved for candidates from the Scheduled Tribes. Singhbhum Lok Sabha track record Since 2004, the voters of Singhbhum Lok Sabha constituency kept changing their choice. Singhbhum Lok Sabha candidates 2024 The ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha fielded former state minister Joba Manjhi in the Singhbhum Lok …

Election 2024: JMM has sympathy factor in its favour in Jharkhand

Published : Mar 31, 2024 18:44 IST - 6 MINS READ In the national discourse, Jharkhand comes up mostly during elections and hardly for any good reasons. Google Jharkhand today and you will get reports about the gang rape of a Spanish tourist while she was on a bike tour, the ED raids on a Congress leader and a policeman …