“Only 9 States & 2 UT's Have Hindi As Official Language”: Plea In Madras HC Seeks To Declare Hindi Names Of New Criminal Laws Unconstitutional

A plea has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking to declare the Hindi names of the new criminal laws- Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023, Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 as ultra vires the constitution, the Official Language Act 1963, and the Tamil Nadu Official Language Act 1956. The petition, filed by Lawyer Ramkumar Adityan seeks directions...

Shocking To Know That Some High Court Judges Are Not Conducting Court On Time, Sitting In Second Half: Justice BR Gavai

Supreme Court judge Justice BR Gavai on Saturday, spoke at the National Judicial Academy Conference at Kolkata. Earlier Live Law had reported on Chief Justice of India Justice (Dr) DY Chadrachud's speech at the aforesaid conference, also attended by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.The CJI had expressed that judges should not be considered deities, but realise their role to serve...

Delhi Court Sentences Medha Patkar To 5 Months Imprisonment In Defamation Case Filed By LG VK Saxena, Orders To Pay Rs 10 Lakh Damages

A Delhi Court on Monday sentenced Narmada Bachao Andolan leader and activist Medha Patkar to 5 months simple imprisonment in the criminal defamation case lodged against her by Vinai Kumar Saxena in 2001. VK Saxena is presently Delhi's Lieutenant Governor. Court said that excessive punishment is not being imposed on Patkar looking at her age and medical ailments. The judge said that the...

Delhi High Court Orders TMC MP Saket Gokhale To Pay Rs 50 Lakh Damages For Defamatory Tweets Against Lakshmi Puri

The Delhi High Court on Monday directed All India Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale to pay Rs. 50 lakhs damages to former Indian Assistant Secretary-General to the United Nations, Lakshmi Puri, in her defamation suit against him.Gokhale in his tweets had referred to a property purchased by Puri in Switzerland and raised questions regarding her and her husband, Union Minister Hardeep...

NEET UG 2024| Don't Hope Re-Test Will Be Conducted For Solitary Person : Supreme Court Tells Petitioner

Today (July 1st), the Supreme Court adjourned the hearing of a plea alleging, among other things, the involvement of the National Testing Agency (NTA) officers in manipulating the OMR sheets of the NEET-UG exam. At the outset, a vacation bench of Justices C.T. Ravikumar and Manoj Misra questioned the petitioner's counsel for approaching the Court under Article 32 of the Constitution of...

NEET-UG 2024 | Re-Evaluate All OMR Sheets Instead Of Cancelling Exam : Plea In Supreme Court

In the latest development pertaining to the NEET-UG 2024 controversy, a writ petition has been filed stating that cancellation of this examination will be an “arbitrary decision” and will violate their fundamental rights under Articles 14, 19 and 21 of the Constitution of India. The petitioners, also the candidates who appeared in the examination this year, have averred...

Liquor Policy: Arvind Kejriwal Moves Delhi High Court Challenging Arrest, CBI Remand

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has moved the Delhi High Court challenging his arrest as well as Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) remand in the corruption case related to the alleged liquor policy scam.Kejriwal is in judicial custody in the corruption and money laundering cases related to the alleged scam.The Chief Minister was remanded to CBI custody for three days on June 26 by...

Curtains Fall On IPC, CrPC & Evidence Act : New Criminal Laws Take Effect From Today

India's legal system is giving a jittery welcome to the new criminal laws which are taking effect from today(July 1) replacing the decades-old Indian Penal Code, Indian Evidence Act and the Code of Criminal Procedure. The IPC(1860) and the Evidence Act(1872), which were enacted during the British regime, have been replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam....

The Message And Implications Of The 2024 General Election

The nation has just completed the biggest dance and festival of democracy. The people of India have exercised their supreme right, their vote to choose a government. This is the largest experiment undertaken in human history in the art of democratic living and governance. Never before and nowhere else has more than one sixth of the human race lived as one political entity under conditions of freedom and voted smoothly for the same or a new government. As Harrison Moore puts it in his The...

On Humanizing Law : CJI DY Chandrachud's Address At Oxford University

Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud recently spoke on the theme of 'Role of Law In The Lives Of Those It Affects' at Oxford University. In his address, he spotlighted the issue of law which dehumanises the essence of democratic living and how an 'effects-oriented' approach by the judiciary helps 'Re-humanize' the law.In the heart of his address, the CJI emphasized the need to approach the...

New Criminal Laws : Compilation Of Articles On BNS, BNSS & BSA

The new criminal laws, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam(BSA) are taking effect from tomorrow, July 1, 2024. These laws repeal and replace the Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act respectively.Here is a compilation of the articles published in LiveLaw explaining,...

BREAKING | WB Governor CV Ananda Bose Approaches Calcutta High Court Alleging Defamation By CM Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has approached the Calcutta High Court with a suit of defamation against WB Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.The plea comes in the aftermath of the Chief Minister allegedly making comments against the Governor stating that she had been informed by women that they did not feel safe visiting the Raj Bhavan due to recent allegations of sexual harassment against...