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MP High Court ordered bank to preserve old notes, as it could be evidence in Bribery case

Case: State of Madhya Pradesh v. Manoj Tiwari, 2017 SCC Online MP 138, decided on 3/02/2017 Facts: The bribe amount in form of demonetized currency notes of Rs. 1000 and Rs.500 which were seized from a culprit in a bribery case, were...

Woman Sets Husband Ablaze In Anger: Bombay HC Convicts Her

CASE Rani & Anjali v. State Of Maharashtra, 2017 SCC Online Bom 175, Decided On 17.02.2017 FACTS The accused got married to the deceased husband and had a son out of the wedlock and since the day of marriage, the quarrels between the...

Allahabad HC Strikes Down Ordinance Granting 80% Institutional Reservation in LLM Course

CASE: Atul v. State Of Uttar Pradesh, 2017 SCC OnLine All 444, decided on 14.02.2017 FACT: The petitioner, who is an applicant for admission to LL.M  Course conducted by Lucknow University  by instituting his proceedings under Article 226 of the Constitution of India...

Division Bench of High Court has no power of superintendence under Article 227 over its own Single Bench [Anil Kumar Shrivastava v. Shaurya...

The order of Single Bench of Patna High Court which dismissed an application in a Testamentary Suit was challenged before the Division Bench by invoking Article 227 of the Constitution.While deciding the question as to whether a Division Bench...

Madras High Court: Second Wife of A Deceased Government Employee is Qualified To Claim Family Pension Without Requiring to Present Her Marriage Certificate

Recently, the Madras High Court in the case of G. Pushpam v. Superintending Engineer, considered the issue as to whether the second wife of the deceased government employee is entitled to claim family pension without production of her marriage...

Tribal Women Can Inherit Property as Per Hindu Succession Act, 1956 Himachal Pradesh High Court

Case Law: Bahadur v. Bratiya, 2015 SCC OnLine HP 1555, In a landmark judgment, single bench of Rajiv Sharma J., while dealing with an important issue of inheritance of property by daughters in the tribal areas in Himachal Pradesh, held that...

Keeping birds in small cages violates their fundamental right to fly in sky says Delhi High Court

Birds have the fundamental right to ‘live with dignity’ and fly in the sky without being kept in cages or subjected to cruelty, Delhi High Court has said while holding that running their trade was a ‘violation of their...

High court quashes plea challenging loan recovery proceedings

The Madras High Court has quashed a plea challenging a loan recovery proceeding for recovery of bank loan. The loan was obtained for building the houses in Kanyakumari district under the Rajiv Gandhi rehabilitation package for Tsunami-affected and habituation...

Bombay high court gives its approval to Amarchand Mangaldas split

Amarchand Mangaldas Suresh A Shroff, the most reputed and largest law firm in India is finally split up after the decree passed by Bombay High Court after a long third party mediation of six months. High Court explicated as...

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Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022: Aim to Strike the Right Chords

Data is one of the most valuable assets in the evolving digital ecosystem. The importance of data and privacy...