![Deadline To File Income Tax Returns Extended To August 31 [Read Order]](https://www.livelaw.in/h-upload/images/500x300_income-taxjpg "Deadline To File Income Tax Returns Extended To August 31 [Read Order]")
Deadline To File Income Tax Returns Extended To August 31 [Read Order]23 July 2019 2:07 PM GMTThe Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has extended the 'due date' for filing of Income Tax Returns from 31st July, 2019 to 31st August, 2019.'The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) extends...
![Lok Sabha Passes Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill [Read Bill]](https://www.livelaw.in/h-upload/2019/01/30/500x300_motor-vehicles.jpg "Lok Sabha Passes Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill [Read Bill]")
Lok Sabha Passes Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill [Read Bill]23 July 2019 11:19 AM GMTAfter a day long discussion, the Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill 2019 to amend the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act 1988.Speaker Om Birla declared the Bill passed...
Two Former CICs Explain How Amendment To RTI Is Breaking Backbone Of Information Commissioners23 July 2019 8:45 AM GMT
'It shall be the duty of every citizen of India to develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform' - Article 51A(h), Indian Constitution.Is it too much to expect that a...
In 2009, the Supreme Court categorically held that, even if a Muslim woman has been divorced, she would be entitled to claim maintenance from her husband under Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure...
During the recent passage of National Investigative Agency (Amendment) Bill, 2019 in Lok Sabha, Home Minister Amit Shah, while refuting opposition claims over 'misuse' of law ,asserted that the...
The Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2019 will be a backstab to CIC and deathblow to RTI. It seriously undermines the autonomy of Information Commissions because it reduces the stature of...
The Supreme Court Friday asked the Centre to respond to a plea seeking reforms on shared parenting of a child in cases of divorced or separated parents. A bench of Justices S A Bobde and B R...
Declaring that they are a couple, Senior Advocate Menaka Guruswamy and Advocate Arundhati Katju, who played a pivotal role in the decriminalization of homosexuality by the Supreme Court of India,...
![Section 156(3): Failure To Register FIR Within 24 Hrs On The Receipt Of Order Attracts Disciplinary And Penal Consequences:Calcutta HC [Read Judgment]](https://www.livelaw.in/h-upload/images/500x300_calcutta-high-courtjpg "Section 156(3): Failure To Register FIR Within 24 Hrs On The Receipt Of Order Attracts Disciplinary And Penal Consequences:Calcutta HC [Read Judgment]")
Emphasizing on need of compliance with directions from the judicial authority on registration of first information report under Section 156(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, Division Bench of...
![How Should Magistrates Deal With Protest Complaints? SC Explains [Read Judgment]](https://www.livelaw.in/h-upload/2019/07/10/500x300_362069-justice-sk-kaul-and-justice-km-joseph.jpg "How Should Magistrates Deal With Protest Complaints? SC Explains [Read Judgment]")
The Supreme Court in Vishnu Kumar Tiwari vs. State Of Uttar Pradesh explained the procedure to be adopted by the Magistrates in dealing with protest complaints. Justice Sanjay Kishan...
What could be termed as an interesting development as far as maintenance law goes, Punjab & Haryana High Court in case of Amit Mehra v. Manju allowed an unemployed husband (who had lost his job)...
Today's ICJ decision in Kulbhushan Jhadav's case serves to remind us how crucial it is to take recourse (and timely recourse) to international adjudicatory mechanisms to decide international issues....
Yesterday, I wrote that the ongoing Karnataka controversy represents a breakdown of constitutional conventions. This breakdown creates a space for inevitable judicial intervention – but a space that...
![Breaking : Ranchi Court Withdraws Direction To Distribute Quran Copies For Bail [Read Order]](https://www.livelaw.in/h-upload/2019/07/16/500x300_362266-quran.jpg "Breaking : Ranchi Court Withdraws Direction To Distribute Quran Copies For Bail [Read Order]")
The Judicial Magistrate Court, Ranchi has withdrawn the controversial direction imposed in a bail order to donate copies of Quran.The condition was imposed by judicial magistrate Manish Singh on July...
The Supreme Court walked a tight rope to maintain 'constitutional balance' in the Karnataka MLAs' case.The rebel MLAs wanted their resignations to be accepted fast by the Speaker and pleaded that...
It has long been observed that the smooth functioning of parliamentary democracy depends upon constitutional conventions. Put simply, a constitutional convention refers to a set of uncodified norms...
![Delhi HC Imposes Rs. 50,000 Cost On Woman For False Sexual Harassment Plea [Read Judgment]](https://www.livelaw.in/h-upload/2019/01/14/500x300_delhi-hc-3.jpg "Delhi HC Imposes Rs. 50,000 Cost On Woman For False Sexual Harassment Plea [Read Judgment]")
The Delhi High Court bench comprising of Justice J.R. Midha, while hearing a matter placed before it, recently fined the female petitioner Rs 50,000 for raising a false plea of sexual harassment. ...
