Author: Ms. Anamika Sharma, Advocate, Sr. Associate, Juris & Juris [Pending hearing before Jharkhand High Court.] Hon’ble Supreme Court of India vides its judgment dated 23.03.2021 rendered in moratorium period…
read moreThe Apex Court, while hearing a suit, observed that in case of a compromise decree w.r.t. to a land, which did not form part of subject-matter of a suit but…
read moreA plea before the apex court challenged the provisions under Sections 34(1), 47(1)(a) and 58(1)(a)(i) of Consumer Protection Act, 2019, which have been introduced in order to determine the pecuniary…
read moreThe Delhi HC, while hearing a defamation suit filed by Indian Assistant Secretary General at the UN Lakshmi Puri, lashed out at RTI activist, Saket Gokhale, for alleged defamatory tweets…
read moreIn order to take a strict action against the surging human trafficking cases, the Central Government published a draft of the Trafficking (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill. This bill is…
read moreThe Supreme Court, while hearing a plea pertaining to rehabilitation of mentally ill patients languished in hospitals, directed the State of Maharashtra to do away with the practice of shifting…
read moreThe Apex Court, while hearing a plea which sought for withdrawal of criminal cases against six members of CPI(M), condoned the ruckus and vandalism which had been caused in the…
read moreThe Punjab & Haryana High Court held that confining a prisoner in a cell for straight 22 hours a day amounts to quasi-solitary confinement which violates the right extended under…
read moreThe Allahabad High Court, in the infamous religious conversion racket case, reserved its order on a plea filed by the accused who sought for restriction on the media from misreporting…
read moreA Special NIA Court, situated at Gauhati, had discharged Akhil Gogoi, Chief of Raijor Dal, in the Chandmari case which involved offences under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Indian Penal…
read moreThe Apex Court directed the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to frame guidelines for recommending minimum ex-gratia assistance to the COVID-19 victims. The bench held that its NDMA’s statutory obligation,…
read moreThe Apex Court directed all States and Union Territories to get all establishments registered and provide license to all contractors under the Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions…
read moreThe Apex Court, while hearing a criminal appeal, held that in order to uphold conviction under Section 364A of Indian Penal Code, the conduct of kidnapper should result in reasonable…
read moreThe Bombay High Court issued notice to an Udaipur based-newspaper, the Udaipur Times, in relation to its impermissible reporting on the ongoing trial of a case concerning Dawoodi Bohra community.…
read moreThe Delhi High Court, while hearing an appeal preferred by late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s father, issued a notice to the producers of Nyay: The Justice; a film based…
read moreThe Gujarat High Court, while dismissing applications that prayed for quashing of the criminal proceedings, ruled that community members’ have not been empowered to take away a woman’s right to…
read moreThe Gujarat High Court reserved its judgment on the maintainability of petitions challenging the prohibition on manufacture, sale and consumption of liquor in the State of Gujarat imposed through the…
read moreThe Apex Court, while hearing pleas against cancellation of CBSE/ICSE 12th board exams, stated that it would not interfere with the decision taken by CBSE and ICSE of cancelling physical…
read moreThe Karnataka High Court, while hearing a bail application, observed that provision of second marriage under Mohammedan Law would not cross paths with POCSO, Child Marriage Restraint Act and General…
read moreThe social activist, Medha Patkar, approached the apex court and sought for directions to States/Union Territories to formulate a uniform mechanism for decongestion in prisons across India, with respect to…
read moreThe Supreme Court judge, Justice Indira Banerjee, recused from hearing a petition which sought for CBI or SIT probe into the killings of two BJP workers which took place during
read moreThe Kerala High Court granted interim anticipatory bail to Aisha Sultana, filmmaker in Lakshadweep, in the sedition case registered against her over the “bio-weapon” remark which she made while criticizing…
read moreThe Allahabad High Court, while hearing a habeas corpus writ petition, refused to grant of “minor” husband to his “wife” on the ground that placing minor boy’s custody with his…
read moreThe Apex Court, in the highly sensational Enrica Lexie-Italian Marines case, quashed criminal proceedings against two, who were alleged to have killed two Indian fishermen in a sea-firing incident which…
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