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Who is the Petitioner The name of the case is Devika Soniraj v. The Zonal Manager, Bank of India. The petitioner is a student at the Bachelor of Ayurveda Medicine and Surgery. Her father has a small-time business; the shop had to be closed..

Plea Filed In SC Seeking One Nation, One Penal Code A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court which seeks that the Centre be directed to draft a comprehensive penal code to replace the current, 161 year old, colonial penal code. The plea has been filed by BJP leader and Advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay. The plea also seeks th..

SC To Implement System To Electronically Transmit Bail Orders To Prisons To Prevent Delay In Release Of Prisoners As per the Chief Justice of India, N V Ramana, to avoid delay in the release of prisoners who have been granted bail, the Supreme Court is evolving a system that will transmit bail orders electronically. The schem..

Key Takeaways Preventive detention is a provision that empowers the police to take any person into custody on the suspicion of him committing any wrongful act in the future. The Constitution of India provides for protection against arrest and detention under Article 22 and viola..

Key Takeaways The Code of Criminal Procedure has a provision for granting bail on medical grounds and this power has been exercised in numerous cases. The accused is given access to medical facilities as a matter of human rights even though he might have violated the rights of a..

BACKGROUND The Madras Bar Association filed a writ petition before the Supreme Court, challenging Sections 184 and 186 (2) of the Finance Act, 2017 as amended by the Tribunal Reforms (Rationalisation and Conditions of Service) Ordinance, 2021, The second first proviso to Section 184(1) lays down that a person below th..

BACKGROUND Provision of sedition law was placed under Section 113 of the IPC and was later amended to Section 124A. One of the important post-independence cases dealing with sedition law is Kedar Nath Singh vs State of Bihar where the constitutional validity of Section 124A was ..

BACKGROUND Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021(IT Rules, 2021) were implemented in February 2021, under Section 87 of the IT Act. The objective of these guidelines is to establish the Government's oversight over social m..

Who filed the appeal An appeal was filed by Sanjay Sharma against two reputed schools situated in Lucknow. The schools did not disclose information as they are not aided by the State, thus, falling out of the purview of the RTI Act. h2 style="text-align: justify;..

Overview The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) had issued a circular authorizing a forcible deduction from retired employees' pensions towards the Relief Fund. Rajan E G and M Kesavan Nair (retired KSEB employees) brought to the notice of the Court, an issue concerning t..

BACKGROUND OF THE CASE In January 2020, an affidavit was filed before the Apex Court, which challenged the constitutional validity of the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1972. A Division Bench of Justice R F Nariman and Justice Ravindra Bhat also issued a notice, which c..

Background The name of the case is Franklin Templeton Trustee Services Private Limited v. Amruta Garg. The constitutional validity of the Clause (a) of Regulation 39 (2) of the SEBI (Mutual Funds) Regulations is challenged as arbitrary as it does not provide for any regulation o..

Private Schools In UP Are Now Under The Purview Of RTI All private schools in Uttar Pradesh would be now under the purview of the Right to Information Act, 2005. They would have to provide information and appoint public information officers. The ruling was given by the State Information Commission (SIC). Initially, the argume..

Overview In several nations, e-commerce is regulated. India, like other countries, has the authority to control the conduct of corporations operating on its territory. This is why the Indian government has enacted e-commerce-specific legislation. The Indian e-commerce market, on the othe..

Key Takeaways The Delhi Government came up with a scheme for benefit of the advocates of the State and the scheme required for the advocates to be registered with the Bar Council of Delhi and also have Voter IDs in Delhi. The process of registration for the scheme is rather simp..