SC To Decide If Schools Affiliated To International Boards Come Under Right To Education Act

The Supreme Court bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari has issued notice on a petition filed by an eleven year old child raising the issue whether a school affiliated to an International Board will come under the purview of Right To Education Act, 2009 (RTE). The petitioner, Master Rajpurohit Ridham Devichand, was a student of Ajmera Global School, which is affiliated...

Legal Scholar And IDIA Founder Professor Shamnad Basheer Passes Away

(Updated)Acclaimed legal scholar Professor Shamnad Basheer, 43, was found dead near Chickmagalur in Karnataka today.He had gone to Bababundangiri on Monday and is suspected to have asphyxiated in his car, as per a report in The New Minute. The police believe that he may have slept off in the car with the heater on.According to the police, he reached Chikkamagaluru on July 31 and on the third...

Unlawful Assembly-Trial Of Offence U/s 149 IPC Not Illegal Merely Because Section 141 IPC Was Not Invoked: SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court has observed that as long as the ingredients of unlawful assembly are met, Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code can be invoked and non invocation of Section 141 IPC would not render the trial under Section 149 IPC illegal.Section 149 IPC states that every member of unlawful assembly can be guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object. Section 141 defines...

"Is UN Going To Stay Our Const.Amendment?" SC Declines Urgent Listing Of Plea Against Scrapping Of Art. 370

The Supreme Court has declined urgent listing of a petition, seeking to quash Constitution (Application to Jammu & Kashmir) Order, 2019, which scrapped the special status of J&K. The PIL was filed by serial petitioner M. L. Sharma alleging that the Order was unconstitutional and that the government should have taken the parliamentary route instead. The matter was mentioned...

Plea In SC Seeks Withdrawal Of Restrictions In J&K, Release Of Leaders

Activist Tehseen Poonawalla has moved the Supreme Court under Article 32 of the Constitution alleging gross Constitutional rights violations in the state of J&K. The petition alleges that in the backdrop of latest constitutional amendments introduced by Union of India with respect to J&K, the state has been imposed with undeclared curfew, shutdown of phone services and internet...

Woman Lawyer Shot Dead In UP : Third Incident In Last Two Months

Nutun Yadav, state government counsel of Uttar Pradesh, was shot dead at her official residence at Etah on Monday night, reports The Hindu.This is the third incident of murder of a woman lawyer in UP within two months.Yadav, 35, hailed from the Berhan area of Agra district and was posted as assistant prosecution officer at Jalesar court in Etah district. The police after...

[Ayodhya Hearing] [Day 2] 'Faith Itself Is Evidence That Sthan Is Lord Ram's Birth Place' : Deity Begins Arguments In SC

On Day 2 of the hearing in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute, Senior Advocate Sushil Kumar Jain, for the Nirmohi Akhara (the plaintiff in Suit no. 3) resumed his argument that the suit is not barred by limitation. "In December, 1949 (after idols were installed inside the mosque), there was the preliminary order under section 145, Cr. P. C. of the City Judicial Magistrate,...

Person Claiming Title By Adverse Possession Can Maintain A Suit Under Article 65 Limitation Act: SC [Read Judgment]

"Once the right, title or interest is acquired it can be used as a sword by the plaintiff as well as a shield by the defendant."

Victim Has Right To Assist The Court In A Trial Before The Magistrate: SC [Read Judgment]

"The Magistrate may consider as to whether the victim is in a position to assist the Court and as to whether the trial does not involve such complexities which cannot be handled by the victim."

A Few Days Before Article 370 Repeal, SC Decriminalized Adultery In J&K As Well [Read Judgment]

"..The pari materia provision contained in Section 497 of the Ranbir Penal Code be also declared as violative of Part III of the Constitution of India."

Salient Features Of Jammu & Kashmir Reorganization Bill [Read Bill]

Consequent to the promulgation of the Constitution (Application to Jammu & Kashmir)Order, 2019, and with a view to change the geographical and political status of the present State of Jammu and Kashmir, the Parliament passed the Jammu andKashmir (Reorganisation) Bill, 2019. Once the Bill gets the assent of the President, it will result in the formal bifurcation of the present...

President Issues Notification Amending Article 370 To Repeal Special Status Of J&K

Based on the statutory resolution passed by the Parliament recommending the modification of Article 370 of the Constitution, President Ram Nath Kovind has issued a notification in exercise of powers under Articles 370(3) read with 370(1).The notification declares: "In exercise of powers conferred by clause (3) of article 370 read with clause (1) of article 370 of the Constitution of India,...