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In India, litigations are increasing day by day and Courts are becoming overburdened. Compounding of offences is a mechanism which helps in reducing the burden on Courts, since parties to the litigation, by mutual agreement, settle the disputes amicably with or without the intervention of Courts. Thus, compounding saves parties from the sluggish judicial process whi..

While disposing off five writ petitions to curb excessive noise pollution in the States of Punjab, Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh, the High Court of Punjab and Haryana has explicitly in a latest landmark ruling prohibited the use of loudspeakers in the territory without prior permission from the authorities. It minced no words in holding that glorificat..

In India we make it extremely difficult and complicated if a simple solution is readily available.  Recently, a newspaper item appeared that the Bombay High Court proposes to shift, not mentioned whether partially or entirely, to Bandra or to Goregaon, and a new building will be constructed with all modern gadgets and facilities.  Surely, the shifting of t..

In a major development, the Supreme Court has ordered that it will hear the Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid case from August 6. The hearing will be held on a day-to-day basis. The Court noted that mediation proceedings have failed to yield results. The order ..

The Supreme Court in a landmark judgement today held that a Magistrate would have the power to direct accused to furnish voice samples for investigation. This judgment was rendered by a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.  While conferring the power o..

Radioactivity may be defined as the decomposition of an atom accompanied by the emission of Radiant energy such as alpha, beta and gamma rays. The gamma rays and the X-rays have akin properties. Under carefully controlled usage, they are of therapeutic value. However, they are destructive to living cells and especially to those wh..

The Union Cabinet approved the proposal to introduce Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill, 2019 in the Parliament to carry out 08 Amendments to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016. Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill, 2019 was introduced in Rajya Sabha by the Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs, Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman, o..

In a routine autopsy the usual practice is to open a body with a chin to downwards. However, in a criminal abortion, it is necessary to follow a different order if evidence of air embolism- the commonest cause of sudden death in such cases- is not to be destroyed. Air embolism occurs when a syringe is used to squirt soapy fluid..

NEGLIGENCE Negligence is the failure to exercise reasonable care; The three ingredients of negligence are as follows: The Defendant owes a duty of care to the Plaintiff. The Defendant has breached..

When a Company fails, the standard of the audit is often called into question. The Auditors are then called into question that they allowed inappropriate accounting treatments and their independence has been compromised, because either they have become too close to the Company they are auditing (the "familiarity" threat) or, more directly, because their ob..

It is most heartening and most satisfying to learn that in a daring and diligent initiative, the Youth Bar Association of India has filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court praying for issuance of writ in nature of mandamus, appropriate order or directives to be issued for filling up the judicial vacancies in the High Courts as per their sanctioned strength as exp..

As per information provided by the State Govt. of Jammu and Kashmir, to strengthen Juvenile Justice System in the State, Juvenile Justice Boards, Child Welfare Committees and District Child Protection Units have been set up in all the 22 Districts of the State.  The Special Juvenile Police Units have been set up in all the 25 Police Districts of the State. Chil..

The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Central government and all states in a petition seeking implementation of its 2018 judgment in Tehseen S Poonawalla v. Union of India, wherein it  laid down directions to tackle mob lynching in the country. A Bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Deepak Gupta ..

Why is it that under our Indian law only lawyers are held liable for accepting foreign funding and not politicians? Why politicians are mostly never held accountable for accepting foreign funding? Why Centre does not care even for the views of Election Commission of India which has opposed the Centre's decision to introduce electoral bonds for funding of political par..

The Mudaliar Committee has recommended the creation of a separate cadre of specially trained medical jurists to look after the medico-legal work of the State. The Mudaliar Committee Report was later on confirmed by the Survey Committee Report on Medico-Legal Practices in India, 1964, by stating that each State should also start a State Medico-legal Institute at its ..