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OVERVIEW • On Wednesday, a vacation bench of the Supreme Court of India dismissed a petition challenging a judgement of the Kerala High Court that had happened on December 15. • !--[end..

Background • The petitioner had submitted that the post of the President in his Panchayat has been reserved for Scheduled Cast community for two consecutive terms (2015-2020 and 2020-2025). • The results of the local body elections were declared on 16th December and the electio..

Background • Under Section 438 of CrPC (Direction for grant of bail to person apprehending arrest), a petition was filed before Madras High Court seeking anticipatory bail in a case involving quarrying/mining, theft, smuggling of sand and minerals./sp..

BACKGROUND Senior counsel Harish Salve represented one of the witnesses who had turned hostile in the Sister Abhaya murder case as a lawyer. The witness was Achamma, a kitchen supervisor who was supervising the kitchen the day Abhaya died. Achamma was supposedly a poorly paid ki..

KEY TAKEAWAYS • Senior Advocates Kapil Sibal and Mukul Rohtagi recently emphasized the concerns arising out of the unbridled powers of CJI as the "Master of Roster". • Though the CJI has long been acting as the "Master of Roster" conventionally, it was..

KEY TAKEAWAYS • Recently, Puneet Kaur Dhanda filed a PIL in Supreme Court intending to conduct fair elections in West Bengal. • Few concerns were raised by her in the PIL explaining exploitation over Workers and Leaders of other Political Parties. p style="text-align: j..

OVERVIEW • The verdict during this regard was pronounced by CBI special court judge J Sanal Kumar who said that the murder charges against Father Thomas Kottoor and Sister Sephy will stand. Both are in judicial custody. • The quantum of sentence within the case are getting to b..

Background In the present case, a 19-year-old woman converted her religion to marry a man belonging to a different faith. The police had produced the woman before a judicial magistrate on an FIR filed by the father. The woman stated before the magis..

SENIOR ADVOCATE MUKUL ROHTAGI CONCURRED WITH SENIOR ADVOCATE KAPIL SIBAL, WHILE SAYING THAT THE UNBRIDDLED POWER OF CJI AS THE MASTER OF ROSTER IS A MATTER OF CONCERN. WHAT IS MASTER OF ROSTER AND ITS POWERS Shanti Bhushan v. Supreme Court of India (WRIT PETITION..

BACKGROUND 1. Owner of Republic TV News Anchor Arnab Goswami's Hindi news channel Republic Bharat in the United Kingdom has been charged £20,000 or INR 20 lacs by the UK's broadcasting regulator Ofcom for promoting and justifying hatred towards Pakistani people in their show Poochta Hai Bharat. p style="..

OVERVIEW The Punjab and Haryana high court set aside the three-year moratorium imposed by the Bar Council of India. This was with regards to the ban on opening of any new law colleges in India. The HC had advised that legal education in colleges should be up to the mark so that ..

KEY TAKEAWAYS Case in reference: Dr Naresh Kumar Mangla vs. Anita Agarwal [ Criminal Appeal Nos.872-873 of 2020] The coram consisted of: Justices DY Chandrachud, Indu Malhotra and Indira Banerjee The counsel was Sr. Adv Shekhar Naphade for..

Arbitration Act does not prohibit parties from obtaining relief from emergency arbitrator: Delhi High Court in Future Retail v. Amazon SUMMARY 1. "It cannot be held that an Emergency Arb..

Background CAA or the (Citizenship Amendment Act) was passed by the Parliament in the year 2019 and it seeks to amend the Citizenship Act of 1955. The act contains provisions granting Indian citizenship to people belonging to six communities namely; Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Christ..

BACKGROUND 1. The Centre approved Code on Wages, 2019 which aims to provide a single uniform definition of wages as applicable to minimum wages, payment of wages and payment of bonus with an intent to minimise disputes and litigations correspondingly reducing compliance cost for employers. p style="text-align: justify..