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Name of the Case Palwinder Kaur v. Prince Harry Middleton and Others Background Facts The petitioner is a lawyer who has taken up legal action against Prince Harry with the writ of habeas corpus. The..

KEY TAKEAWAYS A petition has been filed before a Mathura Court in Uttar Pradesh seeking permission for a radiology test to ascertain whether idols of Lord Krishna are buried beneath the famous Jama Masjid of Agra. The petition is said to be filed in the light of an order passed ..

KEY TAKEAWAYS The reference case is C.A Xavier v/s. Chief Secretary & Others [W.P.(C) No. 9670/2018] A writ petition was filed before a 2 judge bench of Kerala High Court comprising of Chief Justice of Kerala High Court Justice S. Manikumar and Justice Shaji P. Chaly. ..

NAME OF THE CASE IFFCO Tokio General Insurance Company Ltd. v. Pearl Beverages Ltd. BRIEF FACTS The insurer company had rejected the claim for insurance by the insured company which met with an accident. li style="text-align: justi..

17-year-old’s consensual sex with accused prior to the incident of alleged rape: Allahabad High Court grants bail to rape accused Earlier this week, on Thursday, Allahabad High Court granted bail to a 22-year-old rape accused, observing that the 17-year-old prosecutrix/ survivor had consensual sexual activity with the a..

Lawyer arrested for allegedly kidnapping, torturing his client with intention to extort Rs. 3 crores as legal fees Earlier this week,a case has been registered against Mumbai lawyer, advocate VimalJha for allegedly kidnapping and torturing his client after the client allegedly refused to pay him his legal fees.According to th..

KEY TAKEAWAYS A PIL has been filed by one H Naghabhushan Rao on grounds of his concern over the reaction of the media in the Ramesh Jarkiholi CD controversy. The controversy, which had sexual contents, were repeated by the reporting journalists loudly and clearly, with the descr..

BACKSTORY This case started off in May 2020, when a Congress Member of Parliament posted a tweet criticising the Narendra Modi Government for its mishandling of the COVID-19 crisis. Furthermore in reply to this tweet, Sambit Patra stated if the Congress party would have been in charge of the pandemic, there would have..

OVERVIEW The State Government was directed by the Karnataka High Court to provide a response of the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed to seek the framework of statutory rules to prevent the publication of obscene visuals by the media and to recognise and consider such publication as a cognizable offense. p style=..

OVERVIEW  The Kerala High Court, on an order dated 9th April, 2021, overruled a prior judgement delivered by the Kerala High Court in the year 1972in the landmark case of K.C. Moyin v. Nafeesa and Ors., where the question put forth to the Hon’ble Court was “whether a muslim wife can repudiate the marriage wit..

KEY TAKEAWAYS • Supreme Court issued a notice in a PIL filed with regards to the harassment and suffering faced by trans people.  • The notice states for the establishment of a Transgender Welfare Board. • Secondly, the notice al..

Right For Safe Road is Every Citizens Facet Of Articles 19(1)(d) And 21 of the Constitution contends Kerala High Court In this case,earlier this week, Kerala High Court recently closed a batch of public interest litigation petitions that sought for directions to the State and Central Governmentsto take steps to stem the rise ..

KEY TAKEAWAYS A live-in relationship is a relationship between unmarried couples who live together in a long-term arrangement that resemble a marriage. While this is an accepted norm in other countries, it is still a new phenomenon in India. li style="text-align: justify..

KEY TAKEAWAYS The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court quashed an FIR lodged against peaceful protesters. The grounds for such rejection were the fact that the protest was peaceful and nothing untoward had occurred during the protests. S..

Introduction The Outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 has brought n number of changes in everyone's life. The daily busy life rustling on the roads and the continued pitter-patter has suddenly become quiet. For a moment it felt like the world stopped because of the lockdown that every human was put into however because of this dr..