The Karnataka High Court highlighted the importance of age of the victim when deciding the compensation. The age of the victim has to be taken into consideration when calculating the compensation in motor accident cases. The single bench of Justice H.T. Narendra Prasad observed that deceased having a permanent job and below the..
Noida police have decided to penalise eye witnesses who shoot videos and take selfies instead of helping the wounded to reach to the hospital. The decision has been taken after the increase in such trend i.e. people stops at the accident site just to shoot a video of the accident. This obstructs the traffic and makes it difficult for the emergency medical help and pol..
Hon’ble Justice Shri S.K. Seth retires from the post of Chief Justice of M.P. High Court, Justice Ravi Shanker Jha assumes the office of Acting Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court The Madhya Pradesh High Court completing its 63 years of establishment has seen 25 Chief Justices in its golden journey..
RBI has played conservative in announcing a rate cut of just 25 points. There is no wonder that RBI in the second biomonthly monetary policy announcement by the Reserve Bank of India. A 25 basis point cut was expected and the same was delivered by the RBI. Whether a deeper 50 basis point cut was necessary the question to be addressed. p style="text-align: ju..
The Delhi High Court has restrained mobile and laptop manufacturing company Asus Technology from using the terms ‘Zen’, ‘Zenfone’ and other similar terms while selling the products. The plaintiff, Telecare Network India Pvt Ltd has contended of incorrect adoption of an identical trademark ‘Zenfone’ that is deceptively similar to t..
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday held that students cannot exercise the right of admission to private schools when there is presence of government schools, local authorities’ schools or aided schools in the neighbourhood. The Court upheld the constitutionality of amendment of Rule 4 of Karnataka Right of Children to Free & Compulsory Education Rules, 20..
The bench of the Hon’ble Delhi High Court presided over by Justice Shri J.R. Midha to decide the dispute arising out on the application of the Super Milk Products Pvt. Ltd over the selling of sub-standard milk products by one of its licensees under the brand name of KEVENTERS, on 06th June 2019 (during the course of proceedings) went on to opine that "em..
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has imposed penalties of over Rs 74 crore on two national pharmaceutical companies-- Himalaya Drug Company and Intas Pharmaceuticals -- as well as two Madhya Pradesh-based drug associations for indulging into Anti-Competitive trade practices as it is the responsibility of the Commission to w..
Undischarged insolvency under the 29A? The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) made observations with respect to the ‘undisputed insolvent’ under Section 29A of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), it was made while approving the resolution plan submitted by TATA Steel for BHUSHAN ENERGY. ..
The rules in 2012 were introduced in Karnataka in consonance with the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (RTE Act). Rule 8 of the state’s act provides compensation to the private schools for reserving 25% of the seats for the under - priveleged students. But in 2019, Karnataka Government headed for an amendment in 201..
The Delhi High Court has held that granting of maintenance by wife in divorce petitions under the Protection of women from Domestic Act, 2005 a court cannot assume that wife would be gainfully earning because she was working or is educated prior to her marriage. The court more emphasizely made it very clear that there is difference between “whether a wife is c..
Bhartiya Janta Party’s Senior Leader and elected Member of Parliament from Patna Sahib Lok Sabha Constituency in General Elections of 2019 by defeating the famous veteran actor Shatrugan Sinha, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad continued to hold the office as Law Minister in the Ministry of Law & Justice in the Modi Cabinet 2.0, also. p style="text-align: j..
In a latest, landmark and laudable judgment delivered by the Allahabad High Court in Case - First Appeal No. - 296 of 2018 on May 24, 2019 has explicitly and elegantly held that forcible sex, unnatural or natural, is an illegal intrusion in the privacy of the wife and amounts to cruelty against her. This noteworthy and commendable judgment delivered by Justice Prade..
It has to be said in all fairness that in a landmark, latest and extremely laudable judgment titled Sheenu Mahendru vs Sangeeta @ Soniya in First Appeal No. 139 of 2017 which was reserved on May 10 and decided on May 23, 2019, a Division Bench of Uttarakhand High Court comprising of Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice RC Khulbe has very rightly observed that the pe..
A Supreme Court division bench consisting of Justice Dr Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud and Justice Hemant Gupta , has in the judgment of the case - Ajay Kumar v. Lata alias Sharuti , delivered on April 8, 2019,stated that in accordance with the proviso to the section 2(q) of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, indicates that both, an aggrieved wif..
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