5-Yr-Old Child Narrates Sexual Assault Details With The Help Of Baby Doll, Delhi HC Dismisses Appeal By Accused [Read Judgment]

Embarrassed by the nature of questions asked during her cross-examination, a 5-year-old victim of sexual assault took the help of a baby doll that was given to her “in order to keep her occupied”, to answer questions. Case backgroundThe case at hand was registered against a 23-year-old man named Hunny. He was booked under sections 323 and 363 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 10 of...

Uncertainty Surrounds Law Officers’ Appointments As Government Leaves AG’s Post Vacant Since June 12

Perhaps for the first time since India became the Republic, the post of Attorney General of India has been lying vacant for nearly five days, since June 12, as the outgoing AG, Mukul Rohatgi finished his term on June 11.Although Rohatgi wrote to the Government last month expressing his desire not to be considered for another term as the AG, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC)...

Right To Sanitation A Fundamental Right: Himachal HC Directs State To Provide Public Toilets On All Highways [Read Order]

Himachal Pradesh High Court has recently held that right to Sanitation has been now virtually accepted as constitutional right as fundamental rights like right to water, right to health, right to healthy environment, right to education and right to dignity are directly related to right of sanitation.A Division Bench of Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Sandeep Sharma held that in view of...

Should Universities Apply Reservations In Teaching Positions Department-Wise, SC Set To Examine

The Vacation Bench of the Supreme Court, comprising Justices R.K.Agrawal and Sanjay Kishan Kaul, on Friday, June 16, issued notice returnable in four weeks, on an appeal against the Allahabad High Court’s April 7 judgment, (Vivekanand Tiwari v Union of India), quashing the University Grants Commission’s 2006 Guidelines requiring application of reservation, treating the University as...

Justice C. Nagappan Appointed As Chairman Of TN State Law Commission

Retired Supreme Court Judge, Justice Chockalingam Nagappan has been appointed as the Chairman of Tamil Nadu’s reconstituted State Law Commission.The tenure of the last Law Commission had ended on February 9. The reconstituted Law Commission would reportedly comprise of a retired High Court Judge and a retired Law Secretary to the Government as two full-time members, retired District Judges...

All Establishments Should Publish Equal Opportunity Policy: Rights Of Persons With Disabilities Rules, 2017 Notified [Read Notification]

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment notified the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules, 2017 on Thursday.The Rules mandate each establishment to publish an equal opportunity policy for persons with disabilities. This policy is supposed to be published preferably on its website, and should include facilities & amenities to be provided and posts identified for such persons....

Gauhati HC Orders Reinstatement Of CRPF Constable Terminated For Misrepresentation Of ST Status, SC Declines To Interfere

In a curious case which involves only determination of facts, the Centre appealed against a Gauhati High Court order directing it to reinstate a Central Reserve Police Force Constable, who was terminated, after a disciplinary proceeding, that he belonged to the OBC category and not to the Scheduled Tribe category.   The Constable, Bikash Chandra Nath was recruited as a General Duty Constable...

Aadhaar Mandatory For Opening Bank Accounts & For Financial Transactions Above ₹50,000 [Read Notification]

The Government has made quoting of Aadhaar mandatory for opening of bank accounts as well as for any financial transaction of ₹50,000 and above. Further, existing bank account holders have been asked to furnish their Aadhaar numbers by December 31, 2017, failing which such accounts will cease to operate, according to a Revenue Department notification.The notification, issued by amending...

Law Ministry Deliberates Ways To Reduce Government Litigation Accounting For 46% Of Pending Cases

In a meeting held on Monday, the Law Ministry’s Department of Justice discussed ways by which pendency of cases can be reduced. The deliberations revealed that the Centre and the States were responsible for over 46% of the 3 crore plus cases pending before the Courts across the country. This was revealed through statistics provided by the Legal Information Management and Briefing...

1993 Bombay Blast Case: 24 years Later Abu Salem, Mustafa Dossa And 4 Others Held Guilty Under TADA, IPC, Arms Act

Special TADA Court has delivered its Judgment  in the 1993 Bombay Bomb  Blast Case Today.However, they have been held not guilty under Section 121 (waging, or attempting to wage war, or abetting waging of war, against the Government of India) of the IPCA Special Terrorism and Disruptive Activities Act (TADA) court on Friday found Abu Salem, Mustafa Dossa and four others guilty of conspiring...

Bid To Impeach Justice Nagarjuna Reddy Fails Again

For the second time in six months, a motion for impeachment of Justice Nagarjuna Reddy of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana has failed. Nine of the 54 members of the Rajya Sabha, who had proposed the initiation of proceedings against him, have withdrawn their signatures.This was the second attempt made by the members of the Upper House to remove the Judge, after the first attempt...

Former CJI Padma Vibhushan Justice P.N.Bhagwati Passes Away

Justice P.N.Bhagwati, former Chief Justice of India, Padma Vibhushan and the judge who introduced the concept of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) and judicial activism in India has left for heavenly abode. The cremation will be on Saturday at 4PM at Lodhi Road Electric Crematorium.https://twitter.com/RashtrapatiBhvn/status/875408952900505600Justice Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati was...