The Delhi High Court has directed the Sub-Divisional Magistrate to solemnize the marriage of an inter-faith couple after the woman belonging to the Muslim faith knocked at its doors aggrieved by the...
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A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the inconsistencies in the guidelines framed by various High Courts for the designation of Advocates as Senior Advocates.The petitioner, advocate...
![NGO Challenges Amendment To Karnataka RTE Rules That Conditionally Waives Off 25% Quota Mandate For Private Unaided Schools [Read Petition]](https://www.livelaw.in/h-upload/2019/01/20/500x300_dharwad-bench-karnataka-high.jpg "NGO Challenges Amendment To Karnataka RTE Rules That Conditionally Waives Off 25% Quota Mandate For Private Unaided Schools [Read Petition]")
NGO Challenges Amendment To Karnataka RTE Rules That Conditionally Waives Off 25% Quota Mandate For Private Unaided Schools [Read Petition]2 March 2019 1:09 PM GMT
The RTE Students & Parents Association [R], a non-profit organisation, has filed a PIL challenging an amendment to the Karnataka Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules, 2012,...
Role Of CJI In Collegium19 Jan 2019 12:24 PM GMT
The role of the Chief Justice of India and the extent of his powers in respect of making recommendations for appointment of Judges to the Supreme Court of India and the High Court as also transfer of...
Contempt Jurisdiction A Necessity, Availability Of Alternative Remedy No Bar To Invoke It: Chhattisgarh HC [Read Order]14 Jan 2019 6:26 AM GMT
Terming contempt jurisdiction as a 'Jurisdiction of Necessity', the Chhattisgarh High Court has observed that a contempt petition cannot be held to be not maintainable on the ground of availability...
![Review Petition Is Maintainable Against An Order In A Contempt Case: Kerala HC Full Bench [Read Order]](https://www.livelaw.in/cms/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rishikesh-Roy-AM-Shafique-Jayasankaran-Nambiar.jpg "Review Petition Is Maintainable Against An Order In A Contempt Case: Kerala HC Full Bench [Read Order]")
Review Petition Is Maintainable Against An Order In A Contempt Case: Kerala HC Full Bench [Read Order]26 Nov 2018 1:12 PM GMT
The Kerala High Court has ruled that a review petition is maintainable against an order in a contempt case.In doing so, a full bench comprising Chief Justice Hrishikesh Roy, Justice AM Shaffique and...
Acquitted But Not Yet Free – The Constitutionality Of Section 437-A Cr.P.C6 Nov 2018 7:02 AM GMT
The Criminal Procedure Code 1973 [Cr.P.C.] was subjected to significant amendments in 2009. The law on arrest was drastically altered following Supreme Court admonition, and victims were given a real...
![Patriarchy & Paternalism Underpinnings Of Section 497 IPC : Justice Chandrachud In Adultery Judgment [ Read Judgment]](https://www.livelaw.in/cms/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Justice-Chandrachud-497-and-SC.jpg "Patriarchy & Paternalism Underpinnings Of Section 497 IPC : Justice Chandrachud In Adultery Judgment [ Read Judgment]")
Patriarchy & Paternalism Underpinnings Of Section 497 IPC : Justice Chandrachud In Adultery Judgment [ Read Judgment]27 Sep 2018 12:07 PM GMT
The realities of human existence are too complex to place them in closed categories of right and wrong and to subject all that is considered wrong with the sanctions of penal law, observed Justice...
![Reputation Of An Individual Is An Insegregable Facet Of His Right To Life With Dignity: SC In Nambi Narayanan’s Case [Read Judgment]](https://www.livelaw.in/cms/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dipak-Mishra-Khanwilkar-Chandrachud-Nambi-Narayanan1.jpg "Reputation Of An Individual Is An Insegregable Facet Of His Right To Life With Dignity: SC In Nambi Narayanan’s Case [Read Judgment]")
Reputation Of An Individual Is An Insegregable Facet Of His Right To Life With Dignity: SC In Nambi Narayanan’s Case [Read Judgment]14 Sep 2018 7:28 AM GMT
There can be no scintilla of doubt that the appellant, a successful scientist having national reputation, has been compelled to undergo immense humiliation. The former scientist of the Indian Space...
One Nation One Education Board: SC Defers Hearing On PIL After Centre Says Similar Plea Dismissed Earlier27 Aug 2018 6:07 AM GMT
Bench has now summoned the records of the 'identical dismissed PIL' and fixed hearing for next FridayThe Supreme Court today deferred the hearing on a PIL seeking a direction to introduce 'One nation...
![Delhi HC Issues Notice On Prof. Shamnad Basheer’s Petition Seeking Exemplary Damages For Aadhaar Data Leak [Read Petition]](https://www.livelaw.in/cms/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Delhi-HC-Shamnad.jpg "Delhi HC Issues Notice On Prof. Shamnad Basheer’s Petition Seeking Exemplary Damages For Aadhaar Data Leak [Read Petition]")
Delhi HC Issues Notice On Prof. Shamnad Basheer’s Petition Seeking Exemplary Damages For Aadhaar Data Leak [Read Petition]21 Aug 2018 9:23 AM GMT
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice on a petition filed by IP Academic Prof. Shamnad Basheer alleging a violation of the fundamental right to privacy as guaranteed under Article 21 of the...
![Breaking: Accused Entitled To Acquittal If Informant And Investigating Officer Is The Same Person: Supreme Court [Read Judgment]](https://www.livelaw.in/cms/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Ranjan-gogoi-Bhanumathi-Navin-Sinha.jpg "Breaking: Accused Entitled To Acquittal If Informant And Investigating Officer Is The Same Person: Supreme Court [Read Judgment]")
Breaking: Accused Entitled To Acquittal If Informant And Investigating Officer Is The Same Person: Supreme Court [Read Judgment]16 Aug 2018 2:45 PM GMT
‘Justice must not only be done, but must appear to be done also. Any possibility of bias or a predetermined conclusion has to be excluded.’In a significant pronouncement, a three-judge bench of the...
Somnath Chatterjee : A Man Who Held Constitution of India Always Supreme14 Aug 2018 3:28 AM GMT
'Rule of law has to be enforced not by expanding any organ's extent of powers, by encroaching into areas specifically assigned to any other, but by diligently and effectively discharging each one's...
![[Adultery] [Day-2, Session-2] One Retains Sexual Autonomy Even After Marriage, The Right To Say "No" Is Not Forfeited By Marriage: Justice Chandarchud](https://www.livelaw.in/cms/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Constitution-bench-new.jpg "[Adultery] [Day-2, Session-2] One Retains Sexual Autonomy Even After Marriage, The Right To Say \"No\" Is Not Forfeited By Marriage: Justice Chandarchud")
[Adultery] [Day-2, Session-2] One Retains Sexual Autonomy Even After Marriage, The Right To Say "No" Is Not Forfeited By Marriage: Justice Chandarchud2 Aug 2018 4:07 PM GMT
The hearing on Petitions challenging Criminalisation of Adultery concluded for the day with Justice Chandrachud repeating that one retains their sexual autonomy to an extent even after marriage and...
![Movie Goers Can Carry Food & Water Inside Multiplexes/Cinema Theatres: Jammu & Kashmir HC [Read Judgment]](https://www.livelaw.in/cms/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/multiplexes.jpg "Movie Goers Can Carry Food & Water Inside Multiplexes/Cinema Theatres: Jammu & Kashmir HC [Read Judgment]")
Movie Goers Can Carry Food & Water Inside Multiplexes/Cinema Theatres: Jammu & Kashmir HC [Read Judgment]25 July 2018 5:47 PM GMT
‘Such kind of acts on the part of Multiplex/Cinema Hall owners are against the right to choice of food, including the right not to eat junk food and right to good health, which comes under the...
![“College Cannot Impose Moral Paternalism on Students”, Kerala HC Quashes College’s Decision to Expel Students For Love Affair [Read Judgment]](https://www.livelaw.in/cms/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/justice-Mustaque-and-Kerala-HC.jpg "“College Cannot Impose Moral Paternalism on Students”, Kerala HC Quashes College’s Decision to Expel Students For Love Affair [Read Judgment]")
“College Cannot Impose Moral Paternalism on Students”, Kerala HC Quashes College’s Decision to Expel Students For Love Affair [Read Judgment]20 July 2018 4:20 PM GMT
The love affair and eloping termed as immoral amounting to a breach of discipline was based on the moral values of the persons in the management. It is a sin for some and not a sin for others. In...
![No Student Can Be Failed Upto Class VIII For ‘Any Reason Whatsoever It May’: Chhattisgarh HC [Read Order]](https://www.livelaw.in/cms/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Chhattisgarh-HC-3.jpg "No Student Can Be Failed Upto Class VIII For ‘Any Reason Whatsoever It May’: Chhattisgarh HC [Read Order]")
No Student Can Be Failed Upto Class VIII For ‘Any Reason Whatsoever It May’: Chhattisgarh HC [Read Order]14 July 2018 1:11 PM GMT
‘It was the duty of the respondent School to ensure the attendance of the student(s).’The Chhattisgarh High Court in Master Vatsal Khakhariya vs. State of Chhattisgarh has observed that a student...
