Ravi Shankar Prasad To Continue As Law Minister; Portfolios Of Modi Cabinet Announced

Ravi Shankar Prasad will continue as the Minister for Law and Justice in the newly sworn in Modi Government. He will also handle the portfolio of Ministry of Communications and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.In 2016, Prasad had taken over the mantle of Law Ministry from D V Sadandanda Gowda.PM Narendra Modi will handle the portfolios of Ministry of Personnel, Public...

Delhi HC Issues Notice To Centre, Law Commission On A Plea For Uniform Civil Code [Read Petition]

Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice on a PIL seeking a direction to Centre to draft a Uniform Civil Code in the spirit of Article 14, 15 & 44 of the Constitution A Bench headed by Chief Justice Rajendra Menon also issued notice to Law Commission of India on the petition filed by BJP Leader Ashwini Upadhyay. The petitioner has sought a direction to the Union of India...

Scope Of Article 226 Of The Constitution Of India: Important Judgments [Part-2]

SURYA CONSTRUCTIONS V/s STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH &ORS., CIVIL APPEAL NO. 2610 OF 2019, SUPREME COURT OFINDIA, DATE OF DECISION: 08.03.2019, CORAM: R.F. NARIMAN & VINEET SARAN,JJ. "Mandate contained in the report: ABL International Ltd & Anr V/s Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Ltd. & Ors., (2004) 3 SCC 553 reiterated." It was held that: Where the State...

Saradha Chit Fund Case: Calcutta HC Grants One Month's Protection From Arrest To Ex-Police Chief Rajeev Kumar

Calcutta High Court's order on Thursday came as a breather for ex-police chief Rajeev Kumar as court granted him one month's protection from arrest and subjection to coercive process with some conditions to be fulfilled.Kumar has to deposit his passport with the investigating agency within 24 hours from the passing of the order and has to intimate the investigating agency his present...

SC Stays Chattisgarh HC Order For Psychiatric Examination Of A Woman Who Married Against Wishes Of Her Parents [Read Order]

In a case similar to Hadiya case, the Supreme Court today stayed an order passed by the Chattisgarh High Court on May 15 which directed the psychiatric examination of a woman who had married a man against the wishes of her parents.Based on the assertion made by the father of the woman that she was a psychiatric patient under medication, Justice Sanjay K Agarwal of the High Court had ordered...

Assam NRC: Follow Due Procedure In The Adjudication Of Claims For Inclusion In the Final List, SC Tells Coordinator [Read Order]

The top court's remarks come close on the heels of the widely-reported arrest and lodging in a detention centre for foreigners of a retired soldier, a Kargil war veteran, after a Foreigners Tribunal declared him, who had rendered three decades of his life to the Indian Army, an illegal immigrant.

PIL Before SC Seeks Framing Of Policy As To Regulation Of Coaching Institutes [Read Petition]

Public interest litigation is before the Supreme Court seeking directions for framing of policy to regulate coaching institutes in the interest of the students. PIL is filed by petitioner Pawan Prakash Pathak in the backdrop of recent Surat fire Tragedy in a coaching institute which claimed the lives of 22 students. Petition says that there is no law and there are no rules and...

Right Of Husband/Children To Live With Wife/Mother Is A Fundamental Right: Delhi HC Quashes 'Leave India Notice' Served On Pakistani Woman [Read Judgment]

"Family", being the natural and fundamental unit of society, is entitled to protection of its integrity against arbitrary interference by the State."

'She Has Right To Choose Her Stay': SC Allows Wife Of Murder-Convict To Stay With Her In-Laws [Read Order]

"We do not see how the High Court could have passed impugned interim order directing the appellant to be housed in the home at Madras Christian Council of Social Service."

Breaking: 10% EWS Quota Cannot Be Applied To PG Medical Courses in Maharashtra for 2019-20: SC [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Thursday said that 10 per cent EWS quota cannot be applied to PG medical courses in Maharashtra for the academic year 2019-20 as admission process started long before the provision came into force. A vacation bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Aniruddha Bose said 10 per cent EWS quota cannot be granted at the cost of others unless additional seats...

Breaking: Section 148 Of Negotiable Instruments Act Has Retrospective Effect, Holds Supreme Court [Read Judgment]

"Section 148 NI Act, applies even in a case where the criminal complaints for the offence under Section 138 of the N.I. Act were filed prior to 2018 amendment Act i.e., prior to 01.09.2018."

SC Dismisses Karti Chidambaram's Plea For Return Of ₹ 10 Crore Deposited As Condition For Travelling Abroad

"Pay attention to your constituency", the CJI led bench orally told Karti