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The Centre is most likely to seek reference of the five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court on the issue of decriminalising homosexuality between two consenting adults. In view of stiff opposition to Delhi High Court judgment dated July 2, decriminalising gay..

Kashmiri Pundits living in the United States have demanded that the Article 370, that provides special status to the state of Jammu    and Kashmir, be scrapped as it ..

The Delhi High Court today allowed Bollywood actor and producer Anil Kapoor to release his film Shortcut. Producer BS Bhullar had moved the court claiming copyright over the title of the film Shortcut. The movie, starring film stars Akshay Khanna, A..

The Madras High Court dismissed a petition filed by Banumathi Thambidurai, wife of former AIADMK Minister M Thambidurai and the Managing Trustee of the Adiyaman Educational Trust in a land allotment case and directed her to pay the land cost to Tamil Nadu Housing Board (TNHB). In 1988, TNHB allotted 62 grounds of land to the Trust for constructing an engineering college at Hosur in Dharmapuri ..

The former judge of the Supreme Court V.R. Krishna Iyer has said that in India, public interest litigation (PIL) was the fundamental ideology of “poverty jurisprudence.”..

The Madras High Court has granted four weeks for the State Government to implement an order of the Tamil Nadu Administrative Tribunal (TAT) relating to a police Head Constable. If it is not implemented, the State Home Secretary should appear before the court on August 7, it said. A Division Bench comprising Justices Elipe Dharma Rao and T.S.Sivagnanam passed the order on a contempt peti..

The Madras High Court has directed the Director-General of Police to immediately issue instructions to officers in the districts that if the police suspect that mentally ill persons were roaming in and around the town, city or village, they should be dealt with in accordance with the Mental Health Act. Passing orders on a writ petition seeking a direction to the official authorities to ..

The Andhra Pradesh High Court today upheld Chief Information Commissioner C D Arha’s order that if the appellant is aggrieved by the verdict of a judge, he should appeal it in a court of competent jurisdiction and Right to Information(RTI) Act is not the forum for redressal of his grievances. Dissatisfied with the orders of the first Appellate Authority in a case, K Gandaiah had appealed..

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 Uttar Pradesh has topped the list of states with maximum number of complaints relating to human rights violation and New Delhi follows a close second, according to NHRC statistics. The statistics reveal that out of the total 94,559 cases of human rights violation last year, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) receiv..

The Kerala High Court admitted a petition challenging the interference of religious and caste leaders in the electioneering process. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice S R Bannurmath and Mr Justice Kurian Joseph issued notices to organisations like the NSS, SNDP..

The Supreme Court today pulled up the Uttar Pradesh government for making allegations of bias against the Allahabad High Court. A bench comprising Justices B N Aggarwal and G S Singhvi reacted sharply to the allegations made by Satish Chandra Mishra, former minister an..

The Supreme Court stayed till further orders all proceedings pending in Bombay High Court challenging the extension granted to Union Law Secretary T K Viswanathan on his superannuation. A bench, comprising Chief Justices K G Balakrishnan and P Sathasivam, passed the order, when the matter was mentioned by Attorney general G E Vahanvati and Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium..

A Division Bench of the High Court comprising Chief Justice Anil Ramesh Dave and Justice Ramesh Ranganathan on Friday expressed surprise at the speed at which the ‘BPS mela’ for regularisation of buildings was taking place, especially with regards to structural safety certificates. It ordered for production of some documents by Monday. The Bench was dealing with a writ petition file..

 The State should enact a law prohibiting any act or conduct that causes disrespect to the Constitution or neglects fundamental duties, to achieve the avowed object of Article 51-A (Fundamental Duties), the Madras High Court said on Wednesday. If the State enacted such a law, the court would uphold the same as a reasonable restriction on the relevant fundamental right because the d..