GENERAL OVERVIEW•The Delhi High Court quashed the criminal defamation case filed against Business Standard, journalist Mitali Saran on Monday.•The defamation case was filed due to her alleged defamation article about the Rashtriya Swayamsev ...
OVERVIEW The three-judge bench of the Supreme Court observed that a contract is void if it is prohibited by a statute under a penalty, even if it is not expressly declared void. The bench stated that the condition established by section 31 of the For ...
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NATIONAL NEWS SUMMARIES1. Special bond between grandmother & children cannot replace the bond between the natural parents & children: Bombay HC• The Bombay HC has held that the bond between grandmother and grandchild is special but ...
OVERVIEWThe Union Government on Thursday announced a set of new rules and guidelines under the Information Technology Act as the Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code, 2021.The new rules have been laid down to ‘empower the users ...
OVERVIEWThe Delhi High Court has issued directions to Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) to sort out the dispute arising between animal lovers and residents in the residential colonies of Vasant Kunj, New Delhi.The petition was filed by three anima ...
OVERVIEWThe Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) recently permitted Senior Counsel Harish Salve’s claim to deduct the monetary assistance given by him to two Indian students as ‘expenditure solely and exclusively for the purposes of busin ...
OVERVIEW The Calcutta High Court dismissed an order removing a blind professor from the post of Head of the Bengali Department by the Haringhata Mahavidyalaya, mainly on the grounds of his physical disability.The single-judge bench of Justice Ravi Kr ...
OVERVIEWA division bench of Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice M.R Shah denied the modification of the judgement pronounced by the Supreme Court granting permanent commission to women officers in the Army.The court issued directives to the applicat ...
OVERVIEWOn January 1st, 2021, Munawar Farooqui and five of his associates were arrested on complaints made by Eklavya Singh Gaud, son of local BJP MLA Malini Laxman Singh Gaud.It was alleged that disrespect was shown towards Hindu deities and the Uni ...