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BACKGROUND OF THE CASE Based on Prakash’s complaint, an FIR was registered. In the complaint he had alleged that he was called and assaulted at CM’s residence on February 19, 2018, at 12 midnight. He claimed that it was a preme..

Justice R F Nariman Retires As A Supreme Court Judge Justice Rohinton Nariman retired as a Supreme Court judge. He also shared the Bench with the Chief Justice of India, CJI N V Ramana, as per customs. He was the fifth counsel to be directly elevated to the SC Bench. As a SC judge, he has disposed of nearly 13565 cases and gi..

Key Takeaways Non-compoundable offences cannot be compounded; only quashing can be used to deal with non-compoundable offences. Compoundable offences are described in Section 320(1) and Section 320(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). Section 320 (9) states that all thos..

Key Takeaways Home Minister Amit Shah introduced bills to repeal Article 370 and Article 35A in the Rajya Sabha on August 5, 2019. The Article gave Jammu and Kashmir a special status. The Bill was passed with a majority. In total, four bills dealing with the repeal of Article 37..

Key Takeaways Maritime Law focuses more on the private business aspect while sea laws focus more on the public law. There are four aspects under Maritime Law, namely: The Merchant Marine Act of 1928, The Death on the High Seas Act, (DOHSA), The Longshore and Harbour Workers'..

Who are the parties Qamar Ali Akhoon, Asgar Ali Karbalai, and Sajjad Hussain have moved to the Supreme Court with a plea challenging the constitutional validity of the Jammu and Kashmir (Reorganisation) Act of 2019. They are the permanent residents of Ladakh, a new Union Territo..

SITUATION BACKGROUND The Calcutta High Court focused the High Court’s administration on Tuesday to instantly undertake the necessary and important measures to increase existing video conferencing services in the Courtroom of the 15th Additional District and all the courtrooms of the High Court as well as Judge i..

BACKGROUND The State Government of Uttar Pradesh provided a gunner to the petitioner/lawyer for security on state expenses in 2020 as personal security for an interim period on the decision of the State Level Security Committee. While the order was still pending, the Commissione..

Factual Background The case was SpiceJet Ltd. v. Airport Authority of India. The commercial airline SpiceJet Limited owed the Airport Authority of India payment of tariff of Rs. 158 Crores along with an accrued interest of Rs. 82 Crores on the amount. li style="text-alig..

Factual Background The case was of TRAI v. Kabir Shankar Bose. A Letter Patents Appeal was filed by the Telecom Authority of India against the order of a single judge bench of the Delhi Court refusing to interfere with the decision of the Central Information Commission. ..

BACKGROUND OF THE CASE Prior to the present case, an appeal was filed before the NCLAT/NCLT. The National Company Law Appellate Authority and National Company Law Tribunal had approved the resolution plan which was formulated during the insolvency resolution process of the Corpo..

BACKGROUND OF THE CASE Relating to the publication of the criminal antecedents of candidates during the Bihar assembly polls, in February 2020, the Court had laid out certain directions for the political parties. The following directions were issued by the court: li styl..

Bail Granted To Ashwini Upadhyay Arrested In Connection To Jantar Mantar Anti-Muslim Sloganeering Case The former Delhi BJP Spokesperson and SC lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay was arrested and remanded to two days of judicial custody for raising anti-Muslim slogans at an event at Jantar Mantar. He was asked to deposit a surety of Rs...

KEY TAKEAWAYS The foundation of the National Green Tribunal was laid down in the 186th Law Commission Report. NGT is established under Section 3 of the National Green Tribunal Act that was passed in 2010. The Supreme Court emphasized the i..

CASE BACKGROUNDS It was a pragmatic view taken by Justice Asha Menon that a court was permitted to take an interest in an application to amend an admission made in pleadings, even if the judgement is reserved under the basis of admission of the Order XII Rule 6. Justice Menon wa..