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On Tuesday the Supreme Court of India acquitted six death-row convicts charged in case of a murder of five persons and rape of a woman and her daughter during a robbery in June 2003 and held that the accused were wrongly implicated. In the early stages, the six accused were sentenced with capital punishment by the trial court a..

What is law? This is the first question that is asked to students on their entry into law school. Once we manage to move past that, the next question is: “What is the purpose for which any law is enforced?” The answer to this question may differ from aspects such as need or requirement to prevent some mischief or to cater to a potential conflict area. Laws..

In a remarkable, bold and laudable judgment delivered by the Supreme Court in Dnyaneshwar Suresh Borkar v State of Maharashtra in Criminal Appeal No. 1411 of 2018 delivered just recently on February 20, 2019, it has vindicated what many say sometimes just casually that, 'Even poem can help save a death convict from gallows'. The Apex Court has in this latest, landmark..

It has to be noted right at the outset that in a sharp indictment against lawyers seeking repeated adjournments, the Gwalior Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court in a recent case titled Nandu @ Gandharva Singh Vs. Ratiram Yadav and others in MP No. 1887/2017 dated January 9, 2019 has come down heavily against it! Justice Gurpal Singh Ahluwalia who delivered this verdic..

There can be no two views that in a landmark, latest and laudable judgment delivered by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court in Kashmiri Sikh Community and others v. State of J&K and others in OWP no. 2048/2017 just recently on February 14, 2019, it has very rightly upheld PM's Employment Package (2009) for Kashmiri Pandits living in the Valley. Every Indian must salu..

It has to be acknowledged, appreciated and applauded right at the outset that in a landmark and laudable judgment delivered by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court in a recent case titled Sunil Kumar vs State of J&K and anr. CRMC No. 512/2017, Nos. 01/2018, 02/2018, 01/2017 dated December 14, 2018, Justice Sanjay Kumar Gupta has held in no uncertain terms that an educ..

High Court Terrain Income Tax is a field of law which sees one of the heaviest volumes of litigation in India. In order to extract the most relevant insights from a humongous data set like this, categorisation becomes a very important tool. We decided to categorise the tax litigation at the High Courts in India at ..

'History owes an apology to the members of this community and their families ... for the ignominy and ostracism that they have suffered through the centuries. The members of this community were compelled to live a life full of fear of reprisal and persecution.” with these words Justice Indu Malhotra, ..

To begin with, it is most heartening to note that in a latest, landmark and laudable judgment which shall certainly go a long way in curbing drug abuse in the state, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on January 22, 2019 has issued a slew of directions. This commendable and noteworthy judgment titled 1. Baljinder Singh v State of Punjab in CRA-D-917-DB-2011 2. Ms. Khus..

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approvedpromulgation of an Ordinance to amend the definition of "person", as defined in sub-section (v) of section 2 of the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 (28 of2005) to include a trust, to enable the setting up of a unit in a Special Economic Zone by a trust, as also to provide flexibili..

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the draft Homoeopathy Central Council (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019 which seeks to extend the period for reconstitution of the Central Council from existing period of one year to two years so that the tenure of the Board of Governors may be extended for a further period of one year with affect..

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the proposal for Creation of two (2) posts of Commissioners in the Office of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities (CCPD), in terms of provisions of The Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act, 2016. Out of the two posts of Commissioners, one Commissioner will be a perso..

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the promulgation of an Ordinance to make amendments to the Aadhaar Act 2016, Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2005 & Indian Telegraph Act 1885. The amendments proposed are the same as those contained in the Bill passed by the Lok Sabha on 4th January 2019. p style="text-align: ..

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved promulgation of an Ordinance for establishing the New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (NDIAC) for the purpose of creating an independent and autonomous regime for institutionalised arbitration. Benefits p style="text-alig..

The third Geneva Convention provides a blanket protection for prisoners of war. It lays down their rights and sets down detailed rules for their treatment and eventual release. International humanitarian law (IHL) also protects other persons deprived of liberty as a result of armed conflict. The rules protecting prisoners of war (P..