'The Very Act Of Throwing a Chit On a Woman's Person Which Professes Love For Her Amounts To Outraging Modesty': Bombay High Court

The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court recently observed that there exists no straitjacket formula to ascertain whether modesty of a woman is outraged. The High Court also went on to note that the very act of throwing a chit on a woman's person which professes love for her and which contains poetic verses, albeit extremely, purely written is sufficient to outrage the modesty of...

'Judicial Remedies Denied': Calcutta High Court Orders Admin To Immediately Upgrade Existing VC Facilities In Courts

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the High Court administration to immediately undertake measures to augment existing video conferencing facilities in all Court rooms of the High Court as well as the Court room of the 15th Additional District Judge in the Alipore (South 24 Parganas). The Court was adjudicating upon a plea seeking relief on the ground that the petitioner had been...

Yogesh Gowda Murder Case : CBI Could Not Walk-In & Hijack Trial Without Magistrate's Permission, Argues Rohatgi For Accused Vinay Kulkarni

Opposing the bail, the counsel for CBI argued that the case was not of reinvestigation and that the state was empowered to order further investigation under section 173(8) of the CrPC, 1973.

Breaking: Lok Sabha Passes Constitutional Amendment Bill To Restore States' Power To Identify SEBCs

Lok Sabha passed the Constitution (One hundredth and twenty-seventh amendment) Bill 2021 to restore the power of State Governments to identify and specify Socially and Economically Backward Classes(SEBCs), which was lost after the Supreme Court's 3:2 judgment in the Maratha quota case.In the said case, a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court had held by 3:2 majority that States lacked the...

Decriminalization Of Indian Politics: 13 Key Observations Made By Supreme Court Today

The Supreme Court delivered a significant judgment today emphasizing the need to decriminalize Indian politics. The following are key observations made by the bench of Justices RF Nariman and BR Gavai in its judgment today:Candidates with criminal antecedents should not be permitted to be the law-makers.No one can deny that the menace of criminalisation in the Indian political system is...

'Trying For Amicable Settlement': SpiceJet Tells Delhi High Court On Air Tariff Dues Owed To Airport Authority Of India

Commercial airline SpiceJet Limited has informed the Delhi High Court that it is trying to settle the matter relating to payment of tariff dues worth Rs. 158 crores to the Airport Authority of India amicably. The company also owes Rs. 82 crore worth interest that accrued on the due amount.Justice Rekha Palli was hearing an application moved by the company, seeking extension of time for making...

Exclusion Of Advocates From Post Of DRT & DRAT Presiding Officers Challenged; Supreme Court Seeks Centre's Response

The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Centre's response in a plea challenging the exclusion of Advocates from being eligible for the post of Presiding Officer and Chairman, Debts Recovery Tribunals and Debts Recovery Appellate Tribunals under the Tribunal, Appellate Tribunal and other Authorities (Qualifications,Experience and other Conditions of Service of Members) Amendment...

Karnataka High Court Quashes BBMP Bylaws Levying Fees On Developers As Ultra Vires Municipal Corporations Act

The Karnataka High Court has declared the bye-laws under which the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) demands Ground Rent, Licence Fee, Building Licence Fee, Scrutiny Fee, Security Deposit, from developers to be ultra vires to the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act and held them to be unenforceable. A single bench of Justice M Nagaprsanna while deciding on a batch of...

Respond To Karnataka's Request For 35 Lakh Vaccine Doses Per Week : High Court To Centre

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday directed the Government of India to respond to the request made by the State of Karnataka for releasing 35 lakh doses of vaccine per week. The State government in its written submission filed before the court said that if 35 lakh doses of vaccines are provided to the state every week, the state will cover all eligible beneficiaries in...

'Problem Of Taking Statements Out Of Context' : CJI On N Ram Being 'Trolled' Over Pegasus Case Hearing

The social media controversy into which N Ram, former Editor-in-Chief of 'The Hindu' daily and one of the petitioners in the Pegasus case, was dragged found a mention in the Supreme Court during today's hearing.When the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana made remarks disapproving "parallel debates" in Facebook, Twitter etc., about the case by the petitioners while the Supreme Court is seized of...

Election Commission Should Create Mobile App With Information About Criminal Antecedents Of Candidates : Read Supreme Court Directions

The Supreme Court has passed a slew of directions to ensure that complete information about the criminal antecedents of politicians are available to votersThe directions passed by the Court are : (i) Political parties are to publish information regarding criminal antecedents of candidates on the homepage of their websites, thus making it easier for the voter to get to the...

"People Of The Region Have Been Left At The Mercy Of Administration": Ladakh Residents Move Supreme Court Challenging Abrogation of Article 370

The Reorganization Act along with the corresponding Presidential Orders is alleged to have a "chilling effect of extinguishing a 'State' by overriding the constitutional scheme to establish Union Territories, which do not conform to the democratic pattern envisaged by the Constitution of India".