Excerpt In these extreme situations of COVID-19, everyone is working virtually. The Courts, including various High courts and the Supreme Court, are no exception. After
Excerpt In Smt. Pasya Padma vs The State Of Telangana, on 25 January 2021, the Telangana High Court granted liberty to the petitioners to apply
The Supreme Court sought the Centre’s response on a PIL seeking uniform adoption and guardianship laws after recently entertaining a PIL that sought uniform legal provisions for divorce, maintenance, and alimony, thus bring up the issue of the Uniform Civil code.
The Supreme Court collegium took a step of withdrawing their recommendations to the Centre to make Pushpa Virendra Ganediwala, an additional judge in Bombay HC, a permanent judge. This step was taken considering the back-to-back controversial judgments relating to sexual offences such as ‘skin-to-skin’ contact is necessary for sexual assault and another judgement stating holding hands of a minor girl & opening pant zip not ‘Sexual Assault’ but ‘Sexual Harassment’ that Justice Ganediwala has taken.
A writ petition has been filed in the Supreme Court against BJP Spokesperson Sambit Patra and ABP news alleging that a conspiracy has been hatched by them to implicate innocent farmers as terrorists and hooligans by running fake news on its news channel.
The Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the Maharashtra government to pay a compensation of Rs. 50 lakh to the legal heirs of 82-year-old Malati Nehete, a Covid-19 patient who had gone missing from the ward for the Covid-19 patients of the Government Medical College (GMC) and hospital at Jalgaon on June 2’ 2020, and was found dead in one of the five toilets attached to the ward eight days later.
In another recent judgment by the Bombay High Court, it was held that the act of holding a minor girl’s hand and opening the zip of pants will not come under the definition of “sexual assault” under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012
Excerpt A single-judge Bench of Gujarat High Court consisting of Honorable Justice Bhargav D. Karia had been hearing submissions of the applicant to exercise writ
Introduction A PIL filed by the Global Trust Club raising the issue concerned with the non-implementation of schemes such as Swachh Bharat Mission in Nagaland
Excerpt The Bench of Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya of the Calcutta High Court on 22nd January 2021, ruled that the recovery of public money cannot wait
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