Former CJI RM Lodha Falls Victim To Online Cheating, Files Complaint As He Lost Rs. 1 Lakh

The Former Chief Justice of India RM Lodha cheated of Rupees one lakh in an online scam, reports Hindustan Times. Justice Lodha filed the complaint in the office of Assistant Commissioner of Police EOW and Cyber Cell in Malviya Nagar police station. "I, on April 19, received a mail from the email ID of B.P. Singh that he required immediate help of Rs 1 lakh for the treatment of...

P&H HC Declares Entire Animal Kingdom Including Avian And Aquatic As Legal Entities With All Rights And Duties Of Living Persons [Read Judgment]

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has declared the entire animal kingdom including avian and aquatic as legal entities having a distinct persona with corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a living person. Justice Rajiv Sharma also declared that all the citizens throughout the State of Haryana as persons in loco parentis as the human face for the welfare/protection...

Supreme Court Weekly Round Up

Every Person With Mental Illness Shall Have A Right To Live With Dignity [Accused 'X' V. State of Maharashtra] The Supreme Court, in a judgment delivered last month, noted that under the Mental Health Care Act, 2017, there is a statutory right for mentally ill persons to live with dignity The bench comprising Justice NV Ramana, Justice Mohan M. Shantanagoudar and Justice Indira...

Genuineness Of Will Can't Be Doubted Merely Because It Was Executed In Favour Of Neighbour: SC [Read Order]

Merely because the testator executed the Will in favour of the neighbour, the genuineness of the Will cannot be doubted, said the Supreme Court while rejecting the plea of the widow of the deceased testator. The Bombay High Court, in this case, had upheld a first appellate court order that the law does not prohibit the testator to execute the Will in favour of a person, who is not...

Case Of Death By Single Blow On Vital Part Of Body May Fall Under Section 302 IPC (Murder), Reiterates SC [Read Judgment]

"Even in a case of a single blow, but on the vital part of the body, the case may fall under Section 302 of the IPC."

Ex-Army Man, Who Was Detained After Being Declared A 'Foreigner' By Assam Tribunal, Moves Guahati HC For Release

As per the inquiry report, the Kargil war veteran is an illiterate labourer who illegally migrated to India. Sanaullah alleges that the inquiry was held without notice to him, while he was serving counter-insurgency operations in Manipur in 2008.

Can CBI Seek Custodial Interrogation Of A Person Who Is Not An Accused In The Case? Calcutta HC To Decide In Rajeev Kumar's Plea [Read Order]

If CBI wants to interrogate Kumar for the alleged tampering and suppression of evidence, does it require the registration of a fresh FIR for offences under Sections 201/202 of the Indian Penal Code, which deals with destruction of evidence?

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...