Delhi HC Upholds The Vires Of Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act 2010; CBI Empowered To Investigate [Read Judgment]

Dismissing a batch of seven writ petitions, the Delhi High Court on Friday said that the Central Bureau of Investigation was empowered to investigate in matters of foreign contribution and upheld the constitutional validity of Section 43 of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 (FCRA). The validity of the corresponding Rule 22 of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Rules, 2011...

Karnataka HC Asks Govt. To Provide Burial Grounds In All Villages [Read Order]

The Karnataka High Court has directed the state government to provide burial grounds to all villages and towns which do not have one within a period of six months. The state has earlier admitted in court that a total of 6,053 villages and 272 towns do not have burial grounds. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Mohammad Nawaz gave the direction while hearing a PIL filed...

Kevin Murder : Kerala Court Awards Double Life Term To All Convicts In The Case Of Honour Killing

A Kerala Court on Tuesday awarded double life term (consecutive life sentences) to ten persons found guilty for the 'honour killing' of Dalit Christian Kevin Joseph, reports Malayala Manorama.The Principal Sessions Judge, Kottayam, C Jayachandran had on August 22 found that Kevin was killed at the instance of Shanu Chancko, the brother of Kevin's fiancee Neenu Chacko. Neenu's family's...

Must have Cogent Reasons To Withhold Documents Obtained During Seizure Under CGST Act Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

Documents Obtained During Seizure Under CGST Act

UP HJS Rules Do Not Provide Re-Evaluation Of Mains Answer Books: Allahabad HC [Read Order]

Refusing to grant relief to the Petitioner, the Allahabad High Court on Monday said that when the Rules pertaining to the Uttar Pradesh Higher Judicial Services did not provide, it could not direct the authorities to re-evaluate the answer sheets. The Petitioner, Reeta Rani, was unable qualify the mains examination in the Uttar Pradesh Higher Judicial Services, 2018. In the writ filed...

Applications Invited For Shamnad Basheer IP/Trade Fellowship With Texas A&M University School Of Law: Apply By September 15

The Association for Accessible Medicines has, in collaboration with the Texas A&M University School of Law, initiated the "Shamnad Basheer IP/Trade Fellowship with Texas A&M University School of Law". About This is the 1st edition of this Fellowship program that has been initiated in the loving memory of IP luminary, late Prof. Shamnad Basheer. Prof. Basher was a distinct legal scholar, who founded the IP blog SpicyIP and worked to make legal education accessible for underprivileged...

Insolvency Proceedings Against Jet Airways in India And Netherlands- NCLAT to Decide The Legality of Dual Proceedings

What should the domestic company law tribunals do when a foreign court has already triggered insolvency proceedings against an Indian entity – this question has popped up before the NCLAT in the Jet Airways insolvency proceedings. In an interesting turn of events, the NCLAT while hearing an appeal filed by the Administrator appointed in the Dutch Bankruptcy Proceedings, has now sought...

Unfair Means During Examination: Discovery Of Material With Candidate Sufficient To Take Action: SC [Read Order]

"The discovery of relevant material with such candidate, would suffice and it is not as if only on actual use being made of the material detected by the examiner that action can be taken."

CCI Directs DG To Probe If Intel Abused Its Dominant Position And Denied Market Access

The Competition Commission of India has directed the Director General (DG) to probe into allegations of abuse of dominant position by Intel Corporation and its Indian subsidiary Intel Technology India Private Limited. The decision came on a complaint filed by Matrix Info Systems Pvt. Ltd., (Informant), a Delhi based IT trading company engaged in the business of importing,...

Development Cost Bangalore Its Beauty: SC Expresses Concern About City's Degrading Environment [Read Judgment]

"The development in today's time comes at a cost that the city of Bangalore has very dearly paid."

Govt. Encouraging Caste Based Division? Madras HC Questions Allocation of Separate Burial Ground for Dalits

Decrying the practice of allocation of separate burial ground for Dalits, the Madras High Court observed on Monday that it appeared the government itself was encouraging divisions based on caste.The court was hearing a petition initiated by itself after access routes of a Dalit cremation ground were blocked in Tamil Nadu's Vellore district, forcing the community members to drop the dead bodies...

'Demo Cars' Kept By Dealers Need To Be Registered : Kerala HC [Read Judgment]

The benefit of 'trade certificate' was available only to vehicles which are in possession of dealer for the purposes of sale to customers and not to vehicles kept for test drive.