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Delhi High Court has rejected an application seeking quashing of a rape case, filed under section 376 of IPC, on the ground of a settlement being reached between the victim and the accused. Refusing to exercise the inherent power under section 482 of CrPC, Justice Brijesh Sethi held that rape not only causes serious injury to a..

The Registrar of Companies (ROC) cannot strike off the name of a company during Corporate Interim Resolution Process, which is reported to have pending litigation, the Ahmadabad Bench of National Company Law Tribunal has held. A bench of Harihar Prakash Chaturvedi (Member Judicial) and Prasanta Kumar Mohanty (Member Technical) ..

In the backdrop of Delhi-NCR gasping for fresh air due to severe pollution, the Allahabad High Court pulled up Uttar Pradesh administration for failure to stop the operation of illegal brick kilns without Environmental Clearance and asked the administration to show cause as to why contempt proceedings must not be instituted against it. p style="text-align: j..

As hundreds of aggrieved depositors of the Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank protested outside the Bombay High Court, Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday filed a detailed affidavit listing out the reasons why the financial irregularities at Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank were not detected earlier by the Central Bank and steps being taken to ease the fi..

This article was authored with the contributions from Mr. Navin Kumar Jaggi, Advocate at JJ&J Attorneys. This article is the second part in a series that examines how precautionary principle can aid the implementation of NREP Even after precautionary principle was firmed up at the Rio Declaration under principle 15..

It will take some time for me to come to terms with what I have read in various newspapers including Amar Ujala and Dainik Jagran among others dated 17/11/2019 wherein none other than the UP Bar Council Chairman and senior advocate Harishankar Singh who has an impeccable track record has openly not just espoused the creation of a hig..

A Delhi Court has admitted a plea filed by the parents of 2012-gangrape victim, seeking transfer of the case to another judge. The victim's parents have sought court's direction to Tihar Jail authorities to expedite the execution of the rape convicts. The court will hear the matter..

A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Bombay High Court seeking a ban on video app TikTok for being a medium of "unfiltered sexual content, and harming youths of the country". The petition was filed on November 11 by Mumbai-resident Heena Darvesh, a mother of three children. p style="text-al..

The Delhi High Court declined on Monday to entertain a plea by two lawyers seeking to replace the police with some other security force in the courts here in view of the clash between the two sides earlier this month. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar refused to hear the matter saying the situation b..

The Winter Session of the Parliament commenced on Monday and will continue till December 13. The session is likely to consider as many as 27 bills. Some important Bills that are likely to be discussed during this session are: The Pesticides Management Bill, 2019 p ..

The bench of Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud and Justice Hrishikesh Roy has issued notice in a special leave petition filed by an Insurance Company against a Karnataka High Court Judgment. The contention raised (in Branch Manager Legal, National Insurance Company Limited vs. Pintu) by the insurance company was that since the ..

The Supreme Court has asked the Governments, both Centre and States to create additional force for investigation of POCSO offences to ensure that all stages of investigation as well as trial, are completed within the time frame stipulated under the Act. Shocking state of affairs, remarked the bench while perusing the report by ..

"Mosques are essential for religious practice of Muslims. Building the same Mosque at some other site in situations like this, is also not permissible as per Islamic Law," a statement from the AIMPLB read. A five judges bench of the Supreme Court had, on November 9, in a unanimous decision held that the disputed land ..

The Supreme Court on Friday held former Ranbaxy promoters Malvinder Singh and Shivinder Singh guilty of contempt of court for violating its order asking them not to divest their shares in Fortis Healthcare Limited. The apex curt had earlier asked the Singh brothers to give it a plan as to how they would honour the arbitral awar..

Once partners retire from a firm, one of the foremost questions that they need to deal with would be on the capital gains that will be applicable on receiving assets from the firm after many years of practice. The Income Tax Act itself does not clearly answer the question and hence we need to depend on case laws from courts and..