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INTRODUCTION The world has been battling an alluvion of misinformation and influence on operations for a long time now. With the advent of internet and social media platforms has given a free run to criminals, miscreants, nation states and other motivated actors. In fact, society, today is experiencing something called an strong..

I. What led to the formation of Vishaka Guidelines? Bhanwari Devi was an Indian social worker from Bhateri. While working with the Rajasthan government's Women's Development Programme, she was entrusted with putting an end to a wedding between a nine-month Gujjar infant and a man. To her shock and alarm, she was the victi..

Rajasthan High Court Bench comprising of Justices IndrajitMahanty and Prakash Gupta in State of Rajasthan vs Dr. Yogesh Kumar Saini... on 17 July, 2020 set aside single judge order directing fresh counselling for medical post graduate admissions in the state. Earlier Writ Petit..

Case Background (SAVITA KAPILA v. ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX) On July 16, 2020 Delhi High Court held that an alternative statutory remedy does not operate as a bar to maintainability of a writ petition. Writ petition was filed seeking direction to the respondent to quash the notice issued to the decease..

BACKGROUND An application under section 7 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code was filed in NCLT by the petitioner in the case of Monotrone Leasing Pvt. Ltd vs PM Cold Storage Pvt. Ltd. The petition was filed against PM Cold Storage Company for Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process as they were unable to pay the debt o..

The terrible incident: In a horrifying incident, a 30-year-old man accused of raping a 17-year-old girl allegedly killed her and her mother by driving a tractor over them. The accident took place on Wednesday in Amapur area of Kasganj when the rape v..

ABOUT THE TAPES Rajasthan Political Crisis stepped to another level when the Rajasthan Police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) has sent a notice Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat to record his voice sample. The Special Operations Group (SOG) of Rajasthan Police has issued a n..

SYNOPSIS: The members of LAWyersClubIndia had a great opportunity of attending and organizing a live information webinar session with a multi-national panel of lawyers. In the webinar, they addressed various queries of the participants revolving around the topic of “Whether to pursue LLM (Master of Laws) or not?&rdq..

Offences towards women have existed since the beginning of time. Women have been considered meek, timid and even weak by the society. Thus, men have found it easy to outrage the modesty of a woman or molest her against her will. The Indian Penal Code,1860 (IPC)1 gives the meaning of the word ‘offence’ as something which denotes a thing that is punishable..

UGC’S DECISION UGC in its July 6 circular released revised guidelines on Examinations and Academic calendar for Universities during Covid-19 whereby all universities all across India have been asked to wrap up final year or final term examinations before September 30. The UGC on July 18 ..

What you need to know about the case? A statue of Dravidian legend E V R Periyar in Coimbatore was smeared with “saffron-coloured liquid” on Friday morning by a cadre of a little-known Hindu outfit, in the second attack on the busts of the social reformer since the beginning of this year. The statue located in ..

BACKGROUND A plea had been moved in the High Court of Delhi by a woman having a confidential identity, who complained that her pictures that were posted by her on Instagram and Facebook had been mischievously and illegally been taken and uploaded on a pornographic website with derogatory captions li style="text-al..

Recent development in the case; On Monday, the Punjab and Haryana High Court issued a notice to Brigadier Neeraj Kumar Soni in a contempt case initiated against him by the court, and ordered him appear before the court on September 14th. Justice Harsimran Singh Sethi ordered a summon ..

BACKDROP A bench led by Justice Arun Mishra, on 6 July dismissed advocate Reepak Kansal’s petition alleging that the Apex court’s registry gave preferential or bias treatment to influential law firms and litigants while listing matters. And further imposed a fine of Rs. 100 on the advocate. p style="text-align..

WHAT IS EIA? Environment Impact Assessment or EIA is a study to predict the effect of a proposed change or project on the environment. It is decision-making tool used for comparing various alternatives for the project and seeks to identify which one of the alternatives represents the best combination of economic and environmental..