The Jammu and Kashmir High Court, on Thursday, directed the Health Professionals in the Union Territories Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, to desist from the two-finger test on rape survivors.
A writ petition was filed in court by Yashwant Singh in order ask the court to issue an order, a writ or direction in the Nature of Certiorari quashing the FIR registered as Case under Section 500 of Indian Penal Code and Section 66(D) of Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008.
An order has been passed by the Madras High court on December 23’ 2020, which restrains advocates to wear their black gown/uniform while they participate in any sort of demonstrations, or strikes.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court, on December 22’ 2020, passed a judgement making it clear that the alleged illegality of a marriage solemnized without the consent of the groom’s first wife is not a relevant factor for providing protection to the couple.
The entire nation is very well aware of the fact that the protests are still going on against the recently passed Farms Bill. While the rate of suicides has increased, the farmers from all over India are still standing strong and protesting.
The High Court of Madras, on December 18’ 2020, granted police protection to an Advocate who was suspended by the Nagercoil Bar Association for not abiding by the Boycott Call of the Association. The court said that the Bar Council Leaders are not Political Leaders and they can’t call Strikes when People are approaching the Courts for Grievance Redressal.
The case has four plaintiffs, where the first one is a publication giant Elsevier, which publishes more than 2,500 journals, including The Lancet. As is evident from the statements in the suit, ScienceDirect, the proprietary database through which Elsevier generally provides access to their journal contents, acts as a toll-gate to a quarter of the world’s peer-reviewed, full-text a scientific, technical, and medical literature.
The Maharashtra Government has been asked by the Bombay High Court’s Aurangabad bench to decide whether the benefit of 10 percent reservation under the Economically Weaker Section category is applicable to those who avail benefits under the now-stayed Maratha Reservations.
Sister Abhaya was a catholic Nun whose body was found in a well on March 27’ 1992. A special CBI inquiry, however, after a thorough investigation of the said ‘suicide’ case, concluded that it turned out to be a murder case.
Himachal Pradesh, recently, enacted a law, which guarantees a more stringent plan of action against the people who force others for converting from the religion that they follow to another.
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