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OVERVIEW  Upset over the non-resumption of physical hearing of judicial proceedings at the Punjab & Haryana high court, the High Court Bar Association (HCBA) on Monday resolved to boycott the court of Chief Justice Ravi Shanker Jha, passing a resolution seeking his transfer.  h2 style="te..

OVERVIEW A constable was beaten to death and a sub-inspector severely injured when a police team went to Kasganj, a district in Uttar Pradesh to present a warrant to a liquor mafia kingpi..

OVERVIEW  The High Court of Bombay has granted three-week transit anticipatory bail to Nikita Jacob, lawyer, and activist. A non-bailable warrant was issued against her in Delhi in the a..

OVERVIEW The Aurangabad-bench of the Bombay High Court recently additional guidelines to restrain print & electronic media, as well as the common public using social media, from ..

OVERVIEW One of the most mooted questions of the recent past have been whether claims towards outstanding rent qualifies as operational debt under Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (I..

GENERAL OVERVIEW The lower house of the French Parliament approved a draft bill of Anti Radicalism, agreeing to safeguard the French values and culture while also promoting it from the Islamic radicalists.  As a landmark project of the French President elect, Emmanuel Macron, the bill was passed, with very few to disagree about radicalization being a danger t..

KEY TAKEAWAYS The twenty-one-year-old climate activist, Disha Ravi was arrested by the Delhi police after being accused for sedition and conspiracy. li s..

INTRODUCTION Maintenance in legal parlance means the act of providing monetary assistance to wife, children and parents. The object behind this concept was to provide a dignified and standard way living which is in correspondence with the standard of living of the party providing such maintenance. This article mainly deals wi..

KEY TAKEAWAYS The Himachal Pradesh High Court has denied bail to a nineteen-year-old boy accused of sexually assaulting a thirteen-year-old girl. While dismissing, the Benc..

KEY TAKEAWAYS Senior journalist and news anchor Rajdeep Sardesai has been taken off-air for a couple weeks with a month's salary deducted by the India Today group for posting a tweet claiming a farmer was shot dead in police firing during the tractor rally on January 26. Sardesai, a ..

NATIONAL NEWS SUMMARIES 1.    Wife’s habit of chewing tobacco is not sufficient for divorce : Bombay HC •    In this case, the appellant had appealed to the High Court against the decision of the Family Court which had dismissed his petition. •    Among other reasons, the husband..

OVERVIEW Supreme Court on Monday granted permission to a woman declared 'foreigner' by Foreigners Tribunal in Assam to file a review petition in Gauhati High Court against the judgement upholding the Tribunal order. Proceedings against the petitioner, Jasmin Begum @ Jesm..

KEY TAKEAWAYS  The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court held that groping a child's breasts without 'skin-to-skin contact' amounts to molestation under the Indian Penal Code, but not 'sexual assault' under the a href="https://www.lawyersclubindia.com/articles/summary-on-the-protection-of-children-from-s..

OVERVIEW US-based e-commerce giant Amazon, on Thursday, filed a petition against the Future Group urging the Delhi High Court to restrain the Future-Reliance deal from progressing. In August 2020, Future Retail (FRL) came into agreement wi..

Overview Section 139 of the Negotiable Instruments Act 1881, granting a presumption in favour of the holder, provides that the holder received the cheque of the nature referred to in section ..