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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday pleaded `not guilty' and was granted bail in a criminal defamation case filed against him here for calling Union Home Minister Amit Shah a "murder accused". Gandhi also appeared before a second court here where he is facing another defamation case, for claiming that Ahmedabad District Cooperative (ADC) Bank was in..

The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad bench) has asked the police to register a case and investigate allegations against the management of a sugar factory in Ahmednagar, which is run by Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, state cabinet minister for housing, for allegedly diverting funds procured as a result of a farmer loan waiver scheme floated by the state government. p..

A leaseholder for sand mining has been ordered by the National Green Tribunal to pay Rs 9.16 crore as environmental compensation charges for damaging ecology by excavating sand beyond permissible limit from the Kosi river in Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh. An NGT bench headed by Justice Raghuvendra S Rathore imposed the penalty s..

A man facing trial for allegedly raping and outraging the modesty of a girl, was acquitted by a Delhi court after the complainant turned hostile. Additional Sessions Judge Satish kumar acquitted Mohammad Aakil, a resident of north Delhi, of offences under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including rape, criminal intimidation, teasing and using vulg..

New Delhi, Oct 13, the protracted hearing in the politically sensitive Ram Janmbhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute at Ayodhya will enter into the crucial final leg on Monday when the Supreme Court resumes proceedings on the 38th day after the week-long Dussehra break. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of Indi..

The NCLAT has held that the pendency of a suit filed by the corporate debtor against a financial creditor, cannot bar it from initiating insolvency proceedings under Section 7 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC). The Appellate Tribunal headed by Justice S J Mukhopadhyay also reiterated that pre-existing dispute ca..

Justice Mangesh S. Patil of the Bombay HC recently observed that the Journalists do not enjoy some kind of privilege or freedom than others to make allegations which is sufficient to ruin the reputation of nay citizen of the country. The Court while reviewing the petition filed by a news company against a defamation case brough..

Introduction: Data protection is a legal safeguard, adopted in order to prevent misuse of personal information. Every individual has a right to exercise fundamental degree of control over its personal data or information. Privacy and data protection are two major internet governance issues in this digital age and a..

In a quite recent judgment of the case –Krishna Prasad Verma (dead) through LRs v. State of Bihar & Others, delivered on September 26, 2019, Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice Aniruddha Bose, at the Supreme Court, have clarified that there should be zero tolerance for corruption and if there are allegations of corruption, misconduct or of acts unbecoming a jud..

It is highly remarkable that the Kerala High Court has just recently on September 19, 2019 in a latest, landmark and extremely laudable judgment titled Faheema Shirin RK Vs State of Kerala and others in WP (C) No. 19716 of 2019 (L) has taken a giant step forward by declaring clearly, categorically and convincingly that right to access internet is a fundamental rig..

Lingadagudi Mutt at Bangalore is one of the important religious trusts managed and administered by Lingayats community members. The case relating to this trust is a historical record for the Mutt and an important case law for the students studying on law of Trusts. The plaintiffs belong to the c..

It has to be said right at the outset that mob lynching cannot be justified on any pretext and under any circumstances come what may! There has to be zero tolerance for it but right now we see that the perpetrators of the crime are either escaping with just no punishment or are being punished on a very lenient basis thus making a complete mockery of our country..

Introduction: Insanity is a legal term denoting that the individual is so confused and deranged as a result of mental illness that he is not legally result of mental illness that he is not legally responsible for his actions. Mental health professionals used the term “abnormality” instead of insanity, a..

Emails are a type of electronic contract which attracts the essentials of the traditional contract. Server is the post office, letter box is the inbox of addressee, draft is post box. Offer can be made through email and amount is paid through electronic media. Electronic agents play a very important role in making of electronic contract where the electronic agents i..

Increasing pollution has become a major setback today, where emissions from vehicles and on-road emissions have become a serious problem. The problem has not only created a chaotic situation but reached catastrophic proportions with the consequence that the Government of India was constrained to adopt stringent measures inter- alia by introducing and promulgating th..