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It is really good to learn that in a most significant development, the Allahabad High Court has just recently on November 12, 2021 in a learned, latest, laudable and landmark judgment titled Mithlesh Narayan Tiwari vs State of U.P. and Another in Writ – C No. – 18204 of 2021 directed quite forthrightly the Uttar Pradesh State Government and all its conce..

KEY TAKEAWAYS The Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016's retroactive applicability to real estate projects that were already underway when the Act was passed. The bench, which included Justices Uday Umesh Lalit, Ajay Rastogi, and Aniruddha Bose, stated that the RERA Act d..

KEY TAKEAWAYS The Supreme Court while hearing the appeal of a terminated bank employee, held that the employee’s right to be represented by a person of his choice is subject to restrictions as mentioned in the service rules of the Bank. Interpretation of Clause 22(ix)(a) o..

KEY TAKEAWAYS The Supreme Court of India has given a strict ultimatum to the Central Government to undertake detailed discussions with various state governments and frame a policy on providing community kitchen services within a period of three weeks from the order. The Bench hi..

Authorities for Consumer Protection  Introduction The Consumer Protection Act which came into force on 24th of December 1986, provides for the protection of interests of consumers. For this purpose, it makes provision for the establishment of Consumer Councils and other authoritie..

Remedies Section 14 provides that the district forum can provide the following reliefs: Remove the defects pointed out by the appropriate laboratory from goods in question. Replace the goods with new goods of similar description which shall..

KEY TAKEAWAYS The Allahabad High Court has stated that when a worker is hired for a specific project, his or her services terminate after the project is over, and that such a worker cannot be given permanent status. This statement was made by the Bench of Justice Siddhartha Varm..

KEY TAKEAWAYS The Supreme Court today postponed the hearing on a writ petition seeking new guidelines to combat hacking, cyber crime, data theft, and other related issues until November 26, 2021. The bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and CT Ravikumar ordered that the petitioner..

SC: Impermissible For Co-Operatives To Deny Membership To Single Women It has been held by the Supreme Court that denial of membership to single women, members of a particular community and people who eat particular food is not permissible by co-operative societies. This decision was given by a bench of Justices D Y Chandrach..

Key Takeaways A High Court cannot place reliance on a "draft charge-sheet" which is yet to be placed before the Magistrate to quash the criminal proceedings under Section 482 of CrPC Background An FIR was register..

Key Takeaways A High Court in a criminal appeal under Section 374(2) of Code of Criminal Procedure is duty-bound to consider the entirety of the evidence. Background The trial court had convicted all the forty-four accused...

KEY TAKEAWAYS The Court noted that applying the two-year limit to awards issued under Section 24(1)(a) of the 2013 Act could result in practical absurdities and paradoxes. The Supreme Court ruled that the provision of the Land Acquisition Act of 1894 mandating a two-year waiting..

KEY TAKEAWAYS According to the Supreme Court, the 2015 change to Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 will only apply to Section 34 applications filed after the amendment's effective date. In a case where the applicability of S.34 to foreign business dispu..

Key Takeaways The Supreme Court held that losing a case after an argument cannot be termed as a deficiency in service on the part of an advocate. The Coram consisted of Justices MR Shah and BV Nagarathna which gave this judgement in the case of Nandlal Lohariya V. Jagdish Chand ..

FALSE IMPRISONMENT AND MALICIOUS PROSECUTION I. FALSE IMPRISONMENT False imprisonment, in simple terms, is the detention and restraint of a person that is not authori..