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Section 27: Agreement in restraint of trade void. Every agreement by which one is restrained from exercising a lawful profession, trade or business of any kind is to that extent void. Exception 1: saving of agreement not to carry on the business of which goodwill is sold. one who sells the goodwill..

To begin with, 21 December is a date which I can never forget in my life because it was on this black day in 2014 that Dr OP Sharma who is the former President of Meerut Bar and who is held in highest esteem here lost his only son - Tarun Sharma who also was a budding advocate to bullets and that too right in front of his house! He was about to be engaged just after a..

Let me begin at the very beginning by pointing out straightaway that in a verdict which grabbed the news headlines of all news channels as well as newspapers and magazines, a Special CBI court on December 21, 2017 acquitted all the accused, including former Telecom Minister AA Raja and DMK MP Kanimozhi and telecom company owners in the infamous 2G scam. The judgment a..

Coming straight to the nub of the crucial matter, let me begin at the very beginning by first and foremost pointing out that it has been very rightly demanded by some lawyers, activists and leaders in a letter written to the Bar Council of India (BCI) that those lawyers who become MPs and MLAs should be stopped from practising. The main ground on which they are dema..

Let me start running my pen by expressing my unstinted support to the laudable stand taken by the Supreme Court recently when it agreed on December 8, 2017 to examine the Constitutional validity of a 157-year-old gender discriminatory provision in the Indian Penal Code which punishes a man alone for adultery for consensual sexual relations with another man's wife! W..

Coming straight to the key issue, it is a matter of great satisfaction to learn that the government is now all set to introduce a new law to guard against human trafficking. It has proposed a 10-year punishment for those engaging in “aggravated forms of trafficking” while seeking life imprisonment for repeat offenders. Trafficking any person just for the..

Section 32: Cases in which statements of relevant fact by person who is dead or cannot be found.—statement, written or verbal, or relevant facts made by a person who is dead, or who cannot be found, or who has become incapable of giving evidence, or whose attendance cannot be procured without an amount of delay or expanse which, under the circumstances of the ..

Coming straight to the nub of the crucial matter, let me begin at the very beginning by first and foremost pointing out that it has been very rightly demanded by some eminent lawyers, activists and leaders in a letter written to the Bar Council of India (BCI) that those lawyers who become MPs and MLAs should be stopped from practising. The main ground on which they ..

Coming straight to the crux of the matter, let me begin at the beginning itself by first and foremost pointing out that in what could be considered as a very great landmark step taken for the benefit of fresh law graduates who just step into the legal profession as a lawyer, the Puducherry government has announced a stipend of Rs 3,000 per month for junior advocates..

Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation constituted a Committee vide Office Memorandum dated 21.07.2016 under chairmanship of Justice (Retired) Giridhar Malviya for preparation of Draft Act on river Ganga.  The Committee has submitted Draft Bill titled “The National River Ganga (Rejuvena..

The latest report of Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) released by Labour Bureau till date is for the 4th Round (1 January, 2017 over 1 October, 2016) in the selected eight major sectors such as; Manufacturing, Construction, Trade, Transport, Education, Health, Accommodation & Restaurants and IT/BPO. According to 4th round survey report, there is an overall incr..

Coming straight to the crux of the matter, let me begin by first and foremost pointing out that the Uttarakhand High Court while hearing a case of inter-religion marriage in which a Muslim boy and a Hindu girl eloped to get married and the groom claimed to have changed his religion in order to marry – had a spot of advice for the State Government. Conversion f..

The Government of India notifies the Scheme of Electoral Bonds to cleanse the system of political funding in the country; Electoral Bond would be a bearer instrument in the nature of a Promissory Note and an interest free banking instrument; Bond(s) would be issued/purchased for any value, in multiples of Rs.1,000, Rs.10,000, Rs.1,00,000, Rs.10,00,000 and Rs.1,00,..

What if tomorrow morning, we wake up and don't find our self in this world! In an old Gujarati proverb it is well said that જર, જમીન, spa..

Coming straight to the core point, let me begin first and foremost by disclosing here that the government is contemplating to increase the jail term for deaths caused by drunk drivers to seven years and may frame rules for lifetime payment of third party insurance premium of any vehicle at the time of registration. It is known to one and all that life is considered ve..