Supreme Court on Monday granted permission to a woman declared 'foreigner' by Foreigners Tribunal in Assam to file a review petition in Gauhati High Court against the judgement upholding the Tribunal order. ..
KEY TAKEAWAYS The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court held that groping a child's breasts without 'skin-to-skin contact' amounts to molestation under the Indian Penal Code, but not 'sexual assault' under the Protection of Children f ..
OVERVIEW US-based e-commerce giant Amazon, on Thursday, filed a petition against the Future Group urging the Delhi High Court to restrain the Future-Reliance deal from progressing. In August 2020, Future Retail (FRL) came into agreement with Reliance ..
Overview Section 139 of the Negotiable Instruments Act 1881, granting a presumption in favour of the holder, provides that the holder received the cheque of the nature referred to in section 138 for the discharge of a debt or a liability. This implie ..
Key Takeaways A court in the city of Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh awarded life sentence to 24 men accused of causing violence 20 years ago in panchayat polls. Out of the 30 initially accused, 6 men died in the last 20 years. Cases on them have been dropp ..
Overview The Allahabad High Court recently granted bail to a man who has been accused of raping two minor girls at gunpoint. As per the FIR the accused picked up his daughters, took them to a field, raped them at point and made videos of the act. How ..
A petition has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking directives to the Centre and Delhi Police for the evacuation of people sitting in the protest of the farm bill and clear the public spaces. ..
More than 40 civil and human rights lawyers of South-Asian descent have written an open letter addressing US President Joseph Biden, regarding the ongoing farmers' protests in India and methods of repressing it undertaken by the Centre. ..
OVERVIEWThe Supreme Court while hearing a plea of a retired District Judge against the decision of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh to order an in-house departmental inquiry against him on grounds of sexual harassment, observed that to flirt with a j ..
OVERVIEWThe official website of the Supreme Court of India showed that a suo moto criminal contempt case had been registered against Rajdeep Sardesai, a journalist on the grounds that he made comments that were disrespectful against the judiciary.How ..