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Background The name of the case is Rajendra Sharma & Ors. vs. State of Chhattisgarh & Ors. The petitioner is a jail guard who was terminated from his services by competent authority. He then approached the appellate authority and h..

Madras HC Issued Directions to Submit Road Map to Purchase Disabled Friendly Buses A batch of writ petitions were filed seeking for use of disabled-friendly buses for upholding the rights of the persons with disabilities. The Court had prevented the State government from purchasing new public transportation bus unless they ar..

KEY TAKEAWAYS A judicial committee constituted to examine the encounter of gangster Vikas Dubey has found the encounter to be valid and not fake. li s..

KEY TAKEAWAYS Allahabad HC has laid out a very important observation that a confession has to be read and understood as a whole and not in parts. The observation was made in a very recent judgement of Vinod Mali v State of UP, wherein the accused was the leader of a gang engaged..

Case Background The petitioner challenged the constitutional validity of Section 39(7) of the Insurance Act, 1938. The Section was inserted by the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Act, 2015. It was alleged that the Amendment made the family members of the insured, who were his nominee..

Case Background Utsav Kadam, a student of IIT Guwahati, was arrested and kept in judicial custody on the charge of raping a fellow female student. It was alleged by the victim that the accused had invited her in the pretext of discussing her role as Joint Secretary of the Financ..

BACKGROUND The Indian stock market scam of 1992 was a manipulation in the stock market, carried out by Harshad Mehta, with several bankers and politicians on the Bombay Stock Exchange. Harshad Mehta used several techniques such as corrupt officials signing fake cheques, misusing..

FACTS OF THE CASE The Government has contended before the court of appeal that the doctrine of basic structure is not applicable in Kenya. It is so because the Constitution of India has provided the exclusive power to amend the Constitution to Parliament, but in Kenya, the peopl..

Background of the Case The title of the case is Reena Chadha & Anr. v. Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD). An NRI couple has filed the present Petition. The couple is requesting a physical appearance exemption fo..

Right to be Forgotten falls under Right to Privacy: Bengali Actress Granted Interim Relief  The Bengali Actress has been granted interim relief by the High Court on the case of right to privacy. Her naked photos and videos had been published and streaming online on various platforms including YouTube which the respondent..

Key Takeaways The Apex Court in Bhimrao Ramchandra Khalate (D) v. Nana Dinkar Yadav (Tanpura) determined whether a deed is of absolute transfer or mortgage by a conditional sale. Mortgages are covered by Sections 58 to 98 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882. li style="..

Key Takeaways Sedition law has been a very debatable topic in India and has attracted the attention of many. A case has been brought before the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the provision yet again. The authorities hav..

Key points This section protects the rights of children below 12 years. The child must be abandoned by the mother, father or any legal guardian. Intention of abandoning must be present. Intro..

WHAT WAS THE MATTER? The Kashinath Jairam Shetye v. David Clever and Ors. (2021) case was related to the contempt of the court. The Petitioner alleged that the Respondent, who operated from the U.K. was indulging in making videos defaming judicial members of the District Court o..

CASE BACKGROUND The Supreme Court recently has stated that it cannot sympathize with the students who entered the medical school through the back door. A bench of Justice Gavai, Krishna Murari, and Chief Justice L. Nageswara Rao, rejected a group of students’ petitions for..