Background Four Journalists Nupur Thapliyal, Sparsh Upadhyay, Areeb Uddin Ahmed, and Rahul Dubey had challenged the High Court of Madhya Pradesh Video Conferencing and Audio-Visual Electronic Linkage Rules, 2020. The Video Conferencing rules were cha ..
Overview The Madras High Court Bench of Hon’ble Justices R. Mahadevan and P. D. Audikesavalu passed a set of 75 directions in a suo moto Public Interest Litigation of 2015. The PIL was initiated by the then Chief Justice of Madras High Court, S ..
Delayed Filing of Charge-Sheet In Heinous Crimes Does Not Reflect Well On Investigating Agency: Calcutta High Court Takes Suo Moto CognizanceThe Calcutta High Court Bench of Hon’ble Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and Justice Arijit Banerjee took s ..
What Did The Court Say If a suspect held under the NDPS Act is informed about his right to be searched in front of a Magistrate or a Gazetted Officer and if he chooses to waive off that right, then the search can proceed without doing so. The decisio ..
What Was The Case The case was about Maharashtra Government’s Petition against the CBI FIR filed against the former State Home Minister, Anil Deshmukh. The matter was being heard by Justice S S Shinde and Justice N J Jamdar. A Preliminary Enqui ..
What is the case NV Ramana, the Chief Justice of India, has agreed to consider the Supreme Court Bar Association's plea to explore promoting Supreme Court lawyers to High Court Judges. The development comes in response to a suggestion made by the ..
OVERVIEW According to data provided by state governments and union territories on the ‘Bal Swaraj' Portal, 30,071 children have become orphans or have lost a parent or a child who has been abandoned. NCPCR statistic show there are 3,621 orp ..
Who Filed The Case And Why Raseen Babu KM, represented by Adv. D. Anil Kumar, filed this criminal revision petition against an order of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court -1, Parappanagadi convicting him u/s 35 of the Kerala Prevention of Dist ..
'Temple Lands Shall Always Remain With Temples; Public Purpose Theory Shall Not Be Invoked Over Temple Lands': Madras HCThe judgment was passed in a suo moto PIL of 2015. The Madras High Court highlighted the need to preserve cultural heritag ..
What Is The Case The Madras High Court has ordered both the federal and state governments to increase the Covid-19 immunisation programme for residents who will be travelling internationally. One of the intervenors in the suo moto Covid-19 case sugge ..