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The recent move of the Tamil Nadu government to make it compulsory to carry the original driver licence while driving has been temporarily stalled following its challenge by way of three writ petitions filed at the Madras High Court. Two PILs in this regard – one filed by Traffic Ramaswamy and the other on behalf of the […]
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Centre’ stand on Marital rape- Giving the impression that it is in no mood to make marital rape an offence, the Union of India yesterday made certain submissions which may be construed as patriarchal in a writ petition seeking to make marital rape an offence. The Centre, through Standing Counsel Monika Arora, in the matter of RIT Foundation […]
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The Supreme Court has held that when a cheque, which is drawn by a company, is dishonoured, the company will have to be made a party to the proceedings under Section 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act (NI Act) and failure to do so will vitiate the prosecution. Importantly, a Bench of Justices Jasti Chelameswar and S Abdul Nazeer also […]
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Last week’s landmark judgment by a Supreme Court Constitution Bench, outlawing instant Triple Talaq divorce by Muslim men, is a turning point for the Indian republic and the very idea of India. That is despite the ruling being a hesitant, split verdict. Admittedly, not everyone agrees with this assessment, and some even trivialize the parallels […]
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Chandigarh stalking case A district court on Tuesday rejected the bail pleas of Vikas Barala and Ashish Kumar, both arrested for stalking and attempting to abduct Varnika Kundu, an IAS officer’s daughter, ANI reported. Vikas Barala, the son of Haryana Bharatiya Janata Party President Subhash Barala, and his friend Kumar were arrested on August 9 for allegedly stalking and […]
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Judgment- The Supreme Court, refused to allow a woman, who is in her 26th week of pregnancy, to abort her fetus on the grounds that it suffered from Down syndrome, saying “we have a life in our hands”. We can’t terminate 26-week-old fetus.The top court said that according to a report of the medical board constituted […]
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A special CBI court on Monday sentenced Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment. The Dera chief was convicted of rape on August 25. Giving details of the sentencing, CBI counsel in the case, said, “It is 20 years punishment and both the sentences shall not run concurrently. It […]
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In a Landmark decision, the Supreme Court has directed the Central Board of Secondary Education(CBSE) to provide evaluated Answer-sheets to candidates under Right to Information Act, 2005 in compliance with the Supreme Court’s Ruling in the matter of CBSE & Anr. Vs. Aditya Bandopadhyay & Ors. –Civil Appeal No. 6454/2011). Two students namely Kumar Shanu […]
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HIGHLIGHTS The court’s verdict in the case against the 50-year-old Dera chief came after 14 years In 2002, a Dera sadhvi wrote an anonymous letter to then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee saying she was raped by the Dera chief The verdict was delivered amid unprecedented security as thousands of Dera followers gathered in Panchkula 5 […]
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Supreme Court of India has allowed 15 (fifteen) days’ time for lawyers to cure the defective applications Advocates and to all such advocates to submit their complete application forms for necessary verification of their degrees if they have not submitted the same earlier, from the date of publication of advertisement in two leading newspapers, one […]
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According to Kapil Sibal, the verdict in the Triple Talaq case did not represent the majority opinion of the bench. The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to “clarify” its verdict that had by majority declared instant triple talaq to be un-Islamic and unconstitutional. Senior lawyer Kapil Sibal, who appeared for the All India Muslim Personal […]
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In a landmark judgement, the SC has ruled that the right to privacy is a fundamental right. It overruled the famous MP Sharma case, in which an eight-judge bench had ruled that privacy isn’t a fundamental right. “Right to Privacy is intrinsic to the Right to Life,” it observed. How did the case on privacy […]
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