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KEY TAKEAWAYS A civil application was filed in the Supreme Court where section 7 of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, 2016 came into question. The issue raised before the court was whether an insolvency suit is maintainable against a corporate guarantor in the case where the pr..

WHO IS ANIL DESHMUKH? Anil Deshmukh, is the currently the Home Minister of Government of Maharashtra from the NCP representing Katol (Vidhan Sabha constituency). Deshmukh also served as the Minister of Food & Civil supplies and Consumer affairs and Minister of Public Works D..

OVERVIEW The Supreme Court has been hearing on matters regarding the reservation of Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) of Maharashtra, which is prescribed by the Maharashtra State Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) Act, which has recently prescribed a 16% reservation for the Mar..

KEY TAKEAWAYS The UK Court denied actor Johnny Depp to file for an appeal in a libel case. A 2 judge bench at the court of appeal rejected his application to challenge the lower court judgement passed in the famous libel claim made against Sun tabloid. li style="text-ali..

OVERVIEW On Saturday, Pakistan saw a Lahore anti-terrorism court (ATC) to have sentenced the two main accused in the infamous motorway gangrape case to death and life imprisonment.  The convicted, Abid Malhi and Shafqat Ali, were so sentenced by ATC Judge Arshad Hussain Bhatta. Such..

The Supreme Court on Thursday has directed the Indian Army for commission of women officers in army. The bench comprising of Justices D.Y Chandrachud and M.R Shah has declared the evaluation criteria adopted by army to be arbitrary and irrational. KEY TAKEAWAYS Several petitions ..

Madras High Court: Evident that Voters' Personal Details May have been Obtained & put to use for Campaign Purposes On Friday, Madras High Court observed that personal details of voters and citizens may have been obtained by the Puducherry unit of BJP. The Madras High Court was hearing a a href="https://www.lawyersclu..

OVERVIEW On Wednesday 24th March, the Karnataka High Court has directed the State Government to take penal and other action for not wearing face-masks and violating the COVID-19 norm in a rally held on 21st February, 2021. The FIR against the Panchamshali Rally has been filed on 23rd march. li style="text-alig..

KEY TAKEAWAYS A JMFC in Karnataka ordered an FIR to be registered against actor Kangana Ranaut on a petition filed by an advocate. The magistrate directed the police to file an FIR against the actor due to her tweet made against the farmer protest on Twitter. li style="t..

GENERAL OVERVIEW This judgement is in relation to the case: KM Rachna & Another v. State of Uttar Pradesh & 4 ors. The issue the judges had to tackle were: "Whether a writ of span sty..

'Sad Day for Democracy' Says Kejriwal: Rajya Sabha Approves Bill Giving Primacy to Delhi LG On Wednesday, Parliament approved a Bill giving primacy to Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor (LG) over the electe..

OVERVIEW Madras High Court conducted extensive training programmes online on topics such as e-filing, usage of video conferencing, e-court services..

KEY TAKEAWAYS The Parliament passed a bill called The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 2020 after much consideration. The key highlight of this law is its new abortion laws which changed the limitation period to terminate pregnancy which was earlier 20 weeks to now 24 weeks..

OVERVIEW In an order on the 9th of March, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has allowed the registration of marriage of a couple through video-conferencing. The wife was incapable of attending the registration of the marriage in person, since she is a medical professional in the United States who was disposing her responsibil..

OVERVIEW In a case involving the felling of trees for the 'Setu Bharatam' project in West Bengal, a three-judge Bench of the Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, and Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian suggested that passing an order which would lay down principles for the evaluation of the trees fell for such proje..