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Key Takeaways The Election Commission of India was established on 25th of January 1950. Its headquarters are located in New Delhi. It is an autonomous body. The Commission consists of a Chief Election Commissioner and two other additional Commissioners. They are generally retire..

KEY TAKEAWAYS “Appointments to public posts should be strictly in accordance with Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India", the Court said. The eligibility standards must be uniform without giving any scope of arbitrary selections. li style="text-align..

Provision For Upper Age Limit Is Mandatory & Can't Be Relaxed The case was of the State of Jammu and Kashmir v. Shaheena Masarat and Anr. The decision was given by Justices L Nageswara Rao and Sanjiv Khanna. The Court held that there could not be scope of arbitrary selections by unfettered discretion being vested in t..

NAME OF THE CASE AND CORAM NAME: Khatema Fibres Ltd. vs. New India Assurance Company Ltd. CORAM: Justices Hemant Gupta and V. Rama Subramanian CASE NO:CA 9050 OF 2018 KEY TAKEAWAYS u..

KEY TAKEAWAY The Karnataka High Court quashed the previous State Government order dated 19 March 2018, allowing only Muslim priest (Mujawar) to perform rituals. It was said that it is violative of Article 25 of the Constitution of India which states that everyone has the right t..

NAME OF THE CASE AND CORAM Case Name:Humanity, Salt Lake & Anr v. State of West Bengal Coram: Chief Justice (Acting) The Hon’ble Justice Arijit Banerjee, Justice Rajesh Bindal Citation: WPA 579 of 2016 h2 style="t..

Key Takeaways The verdict “Retrospective seniority cannot be claimed from date when the employee is not even borne in service” was identified by the Apex Court against an appeal filed by the Bihar Government asserting the decision of the Patna High Court allowing the plea filed by a resident demanding Retr..

Key Takeaways Background check/verification/screening of the applicant for the government job has to be made by the employer after taking the consent of the applicant. When a government employee is in police custody for 48 hours, then he shall be suspended. The suspension shall ..

Insurance Surveyor's Report Not Sancrosanct, But Consumer Forum Cannot Subject It To Forensic Examination The case was of Khatema Fibres Ltd. v. New India Assurance Company Ltd.The decision was given by Justices Hemant Gupta and V. Ramasubramanian. The Court held that though an insurance surveyor's report is not sacro..

Key Takeaways A ‘Negotiable Instruments’ may be negotiated either by promissory notes, bills of exchange, and cheques or by bank drafts, bank notes, share warrants, bearer debentures, dividend warrants, scripts and treasury bills. Negotiable Instruments also have val..

Key Takeaways Registration of a marriage gives a legal recognition to the marriage; it also binds the marriage to associated laws and provides legality to it. A Hindu marriage may be solemnized by performing the customary rites of the parties. An important part of these rites is..

NAME OF THE CASE AND CORAM NAME: Shantharam Prabhu and Mr. K. Dayanand Rai CORAM: Justice Suraj Govindaraj CASE NO: Crp No.96 Of 2021 KEY TAKEAWAYS li style="text-align: justi..

NAME OF THE CASE AND CORAM Case Name:M/s New Victoria Mills & Ors. V. Shrikant Arya Coram: Justice SK Kaul and Justice MM Sundresh Citation: LL 2021 SC 506 KEY TAKEAWAYS l..

Name of the Case State of Uttar Pradesh v. Principal Abhay Nandan Inter College Key Takeaways A provision of the Intermediate Education Act was held as unconstitutional which was challenged before the Court though a Writ Petition. ..

KEY TAKEAWAYS Chairman, Directors can't be held vicariously liable for criminal acts of a company without stating specific individual roles. The Court held that the Magistrate has to record the role played by directors in their respective capacities which is sine qua non for..