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Two persons were convicted by the Special CBI judge under section 3 and 4 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The accused were arrested by the joint team of Delhi Police Crime branch, Maharashtra Forest Department and the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau after receiving an information from an unknown source for possession of uncured tropies of tiger parts, tiger..

Delhi High Court in its recent judgement has restrained the use of ‘Dhagala Lagli’ song by Balaji Telefilms in their recent release ‘Dream Girl’, due to copyright violation as they have neither given the license fee nor the required credits to the plaintiff, who owned to copyright in the sound recording.  p style="text-align: jus..

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued a notice to the Union Government on a petition filed by Daksh Kadian, a Student from National Law School of India challenging the constitutionality of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956. The petitioner contends that the interstate succession scheme under Act is partial towards the sons over ..

The Principal Bench of National Green Tribunal on Friday has slammed a hefty fine of 5 crores on the Mumbai Industrial Development Corporation for discharging industrial effluents, in the Taloja industrial area on the outskirts of Mumbai. Earlier in 2018, the Principal Bench of NGT found irregularities in the operation of the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CEPT) after inspection and..

A writ petition filed by Amit Sahni asking for directions to the central government to introduce mandatory OTP for transactions made on international websites was rejected by the Delhi High Court. The petition suggested urgent need of mandating requirements of OTP for transactions made on international websites as it would redu..

Introduction Electronic and information technologies have been making unprecedented inroads into the way we live in and the way we carry out our transactions in every sphere. This phenomenon in turn makes revolutionary changes in the way evidence is brought before and considered by the court. p style="text-..

The Conservation Of Foreign Exchange And Prevention Of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974 (COFEPOSA), which came into force on December 19, 1974, came at a time when India appeared a heavenly abode for wrongdoers with names like Sukhar Narain Bakhia and Haji Mastan, all based in big cities of the western coast of India, and operating innumerable sorties across the Arabian..

It must be mentioned right at the outset that in a significant development, the Supreme Court in a latest, landmark and extremely laudable judgment titled Hanif Khan @ Annu Khan Vs Central Bureau Of Narcotics Through Inspector L.P. Ojha in Criminal Appeal No(s). 1206 of 2013 delivered on August 20, 2019 has observed clearly and convincingly in no uncertain terms that,..

It is most heartening to learn that as per an official release, the Government has notified 63 provisions of the Motor Vehicles Amendment Act 2019 including the ones dealing with enhanced penalties for various traffic offences. The new clauses would come into effect from September 1, 2019. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said in a statement that these are ..

An intervention application has been filed in the Supreme Court by the Brahmaputra Valley Civil Society, an Assam based NGO, in the petition filed by the All Assam Minority Students Union challenging the constitutional validity of the Foreigner’s (Tribunals) Amendment Order, 2019 which was issued by the Central Government on may 30th, 2019, with regard to the ..

Petition filed by Anuradha Bhasin, Executive Editor of Kashmir Times and Teseen Poonawalla against the media curb, detention of political leaders and curfew measures, following the abrogation of the special status are to be heard by the Supreme Court on September 16th. Anuradha Bhasin has raised the issue of media restrictions ..

An application to summon Kalyan Singh, the former UP chief minister was initiated by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the CBI Court on 8th September, soon after the end of his term as the Governor of Rajasthan. Kalyan Singh was the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh when the mosque was demolished in Ayodhya and was not dragged i..

Earlier in August, Shehla Rashid, a social activist and leader of Jammu and Kashmir People’s Movement, raised question on the mobilization of troops in the valley of Kashmir in regard with the abrogation of Article 370 and also claimed human rights violation by the troops in valley. A case was registered against her for passi..

In a noteworthy and commendable judgment titled The State of Tamil Nadu & Ors Vs G Hemalathaa & Anr in Civil Appeal No. 6669 of 2019 (Arising out of SLP (C) No. 14093 of 2019) delivered by the Supreme Court on August 28, 2019, a strict, stern and strong message has been sent to all the High Courts by reiterating that in judicial service, the High Court can'..

I have just no words to express my boundless dismay and dejection on first learning that a great legal luminary and a political stalwart whom we all know by the name of Arun Jaitley has finally left us and left for his heavenly abode on August 24! Earlier we saw how another legal luminary and political stalwart - Sushma Swaraj too similarly left us in this month of ..