By- Adv. Rishabh Kumar Mishra After a dispute over parking, the Patna High Court has ordered the formation of an SIT (Special Investigation Team) to investigate an alleged assault on lawyers residing on rented premises by some hooligans accompanying the house owner. Justice Vivek Choudhary, while hearing the petition of advocate Abhishek Kumar Srivastava, stated
Vikhyaat Maheshwari, a 3rd year law student, writes a letter to the Hon’ble Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and the Secretary-General Atul M. Kurhekar, emphasising the need for uniformity in the usage of A4 papers with printing on both sides across all the judicial forums of the country, keeping in mind the tremendous environmental and legal
Introduction: In a historic move, President of India, Draupadi Murmu, granted her assent on Monday to three groundbreaking bills aimed at a comprehensive transformation of the country’s criminal justice system. Details: This significant development has been officially acknowledged on the Rashtrapati Bhavan website, though it is pending publication in the Gazette of India. The bills
Central Government Introduces Landmark Bills to Reform Criminal Laws in Lok Sabha On August 11, 2023, a significant legislative development unfolded in the Lok Sabha as the Central Government presented three crucial bills aimed at modernizing the legal landscape. These bills seek to replace the longstanding Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Code of Criminal Procedure
The court was hearing a bail application filed by Hanjla Iqbal, who was booked for the offense under section 376/34 of the IPC, which was along with section 6 of the Prevention of Child from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act. was read. The High Court held that a person who has consensual physical relationship with another
The National Company Law Tribunal, Hyderabad Bench vide its order dated 24.06.2022 admitted an Insolvency Resolution Petition filed by L & T Finance Limited (Financial Creditor) against the Promoter and Personal Guarantor of Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited (DCHL), Mr. T. Venkataram Reddy. DCHL is one of the biggest defaulters being faced with several proceedings by
The Special Leave Petition (Crl.) Diary No. 14362/2022 titled as Mr. Subrata Roy Sahara V/s Pramod Kumar Saini In a criminal proceeding relating to anticipatory bail of a third party pending before Hon’ble Patna High Court, Single Bench comprising Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sandeep Kumar allowed thousands of impleadment applications and added RBI, SEBI, ROC, Director
The full bench of the Karnataka High Court, which concluded its hearing in the Hijab case, today upheld the order restricting students from wearing any religious cloths inside educational institutions’ premises. The High Court noted that wearing Hijab is not essential to Islam and also noted that the state government has power to issue an
The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to the state government on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) asking it reasons why the use of loudspeakers for giving aazan (call for prayers) in mosques should not be banned. A division bench of Chief Justice Arvind Kumar and Justice Ashutosh J Shastri issued the notice on a
The Allahabad High Court, while hearing the obscene remarks made on Lord Rama and Krishna on the Internet media, said that India is incomplete without Ram. Whether one believes in God or not, he has no right to hurt anyone’s faith. Freedom of expression is not unlimited, there are some restrictions as well. It is
