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Invoking the recent amendments in the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, the Central Government has decided to declare the following individuals as terrorists and add their names to Schedule 4 of the Act: Maulana Masood Azhar : chief, founder and key leader of Jaish-e-Mohammad Hafiz Muhammad: chief, founder and key leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba/Jamat-ud-Dawa/l..

The Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act, 2019 was notified on 9th August, 2019. Sub-Section 2 of Section 1 of the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act, 2019 provides as under:- “(2) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, it shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification..

Arguments by Senior Advocate Rajeev Dhawan on 2nd September (Day 17) In a shocking twist in the Ayodhya case currently heard by the Supreme Court, on Monday, Senior Advocate Rajeev Dhawan who represents the Muslim parties in the issue has argued that no temple existed on the land before Babri Masjid was built. ..

Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay presented the PIL seeking population control measures infront of the Division Bench of Justice DN Patel and Justice Hari Shankar. The bench dismissed the PIL saying only government is entitled to introduce policies on population or child control. The petitioner prayed the Court to direct the Union of I..

The Central Government plans to merge 10 public sector banks into four - to create fewer and stronger global-sized bankers - revive economic growth. Punjab National Bank, Canara bank, Union Bank of India, Indian Bank, United Bank of India, Allahabad Bank, Syndicate Bank, Corporation Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce and Andhra Ba..

Chief Minister of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot along with the State Election Commission and returning officer are summoned by the Rajasthan High Court in a petition challenging his winning in the election from Sardarpura constituency. The petition stands on the allegation that CM falsely attracted the voters in the name of waving off..

Justice Anant S. Dave, the acting Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court inaugurated Vulnerable Witness Deposition Centers (VWDCs) in two new districts courts of Bhrauch and Surat on 31st August, soon after the inauguration of the first VWDCs in Vadodra earlier this year. Designed and conceptualised to guard the child witness, vic..

INTRODUCTION In theory, a negative servitude could be created by statue, decree arbitral or judicial decree but, leaving those possibilities aside, we examine the stated proposition that a negative servitude can be created only expressly. THE STANDARD VIEW..

The rights and obligations on the proprietors of the servient and dominant tenements are implied by law, but they may be confirmed expressly or, within certain limitations, varied or supplemented expressly by means of conventional servitude conditions in a deed. THE BALANCING EXERCISE p style="text-alig..

The Ayodhya/Bhabri Masjid land dispute is over 165 years old, with the very first recorded legal suit being filed in the year 1885 and ever since then a series of suits and appeals have been preferred by the litigants and the incumbent governments. The constitutional validity and the merits of all these appeals and judgements will soon be decided when the Apex Court..

It is most heartening and most refreshing to learn that in a latest, landmark and extremely laudable judgment, the top court that is the Supreme Court has very rightly held in Union of India Vs Yasmeen Mohammad Zahid @ Yasmeen in Criminal Appeal No. 1199 of 2019 (Arising out of Special Leave Petition (Cri.) No. 461 of 2019) with Criminal Appeal No. 1200 of 2019 (Ari..

A general rule of construction in relation to formulae drafted Conveyancing Deeds is that where the dispositive clause contains obscure phraseology, other parts of that Clause may be examined to clarify the matter. This rule will be applied to the Clause of Grant in Deeds creating servitudes. Where a servitude is created in a Deed which is also a Conveyance of a ser..

THE CASE: A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court will pronounce on September 6 the judgment on the constitutionality of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), a colonial era provision which criminalises private consensual sexual acts between same sex adults. THE JUDGES: The Bench..

On expected lines and as anticipated, the Supreme Court has most recently on August 6, 2019 in a latest judgment titled Jagdish and another vs The State Of Haryana in Criminal Appeal No(s). 1864 of 2009 has once again very rightly reiterated like many times in the past that the evidence of a solitary witness in a criminal trial requires heightened scrutiny. It is not ..

What is section 377 of Indian penal code and how it affects the fundamental rights of the LGBT community? Section 377: Unnatural offences- Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man ,woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of eithe..