PIL Filed In Delhi HC Challenging Difference In Minimum Age For Marriage For Men and Women [Read Petition]

A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Delhi High Court by Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay seeking abolition of different minimum age for marriage for men and women. The petitioner calls the distinction 'unscientific' and a patriarchal stereotype. According to the Petitioner, the following statutory provisions are responsible for this discriminatory bar: a. Section 60(1) of...

Madras Bar Association Cancels Lecture On Article 370 Due To Objection From BJP Legal Wing

A lecture scheduled by the Madras Bar Association on Article 370 of the Constitution of India had to be cancelled due to the objection taken by the legal wing of the Bharatiya Janatha Party(BJP), reports the Times of India.Senior Advocate K M Vijayan of Madras High Court was supposed to deliver a lecture on the topic during the lunch break on August 14 as part of the Bar Association's...

Remembering Prof. Shamnad Basheer By Justice (Retd.) Aftab Alam

Justice Aftab Alam, a former judge of the Supreme Court, who presided over the landmark Novartis Glivec patent case in 2013, recollects the time Professor Basheer addressed his court

Pehlu Khan Lynching Case : Trial Court Acquits All 6 Accused

An Alwar court on Wednesday acquitted all six accused in the lynching of Pehlu Khan, allegedly killed two years ago by a mob that set upon him while he was transporting cows. The Additional Judicial Magistrate acquitted the six men, giving them benefit of the doubt, according to a lawyer. Pehlu Khan (55), his two sons and a few others were transporting cows when they were allegedly...

'Batla House' Makers Agree Before Delhi HC To Make Changes In The Film

The movie 'Batla House', starring John Abraham, has got the green signal from the Delhi High Court for release on the Independence Day after the film makers and an accused in the encounter case, who wanted the screening to be delayed, reached consensus on ceratin changes in it. Justice Vibhu Bakhru passed the consent order and said the film makers are bound by their statement as...

ITAT Allows Sec.37(1) Deduction For Harish Salve's Foreign Scholarship As Business Expenses To Promote Professional Profile [Read Order]

The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, New Delhi, has accepted the claim of Senior Advocate Harish Salve for deduction of the foreign scholarship given by him to two Indian students as "expenditure solely and exclusively for the purposes of business".Allowing the claim for deduction of Rs. 28,45, 372 under Section 37(1) of the Income Tax Act,1961, the ITAT ruled that the scholarship expenses...

P&H HC: Entry Of Litigants To HC Allegedly Restricted By Lawyers, HC Issues Notice To The Bar [Read Order]

The Chief Justice of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana constituted a full bench today, in order to address the law and order catastrophe in the court premises itself. The court noted that the Advocates as well as members of the Bar Association of Punjab and Haryana High Court have not only been abstaining from work but were also restraining entry in the court premises. They have locked...

Parents Beware : Handing Over Vehicle To Your Child Could Land You In Jail Now

The Motor Vehicles Amendment Act 2019, which received the assent of the President on August 9, has included stringent provisions in the principal Act to curb the tendency of children using vehicles. As per the newly inserted Section 199A, where a motor vehicle offence has been committed by a juvenile, the parent or guardian of such juvenile or the owner of the motor vehicle shall be deemed to...

Karnataka HC Directs UGC To Consider NLSIU's Request For Approval To Two Courses [Read Judgment]

The Karnataka High Court has directed the University Grants Commission (UGC) to consider a representation made by National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU) seeking approval to offer two courses, Post Graduate Diploma in Consumer Law and Practice (PGDCLP) and Post Graduate Diploma in Cyber Law and Cyber Forensics (PGDCLCF). Justice R Devdas directed UGC to in three months...

High Courts Weekly Round Up

Bombay High Court Issued a notice to and served summons on former Union Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, National Spot Exchange Ltd. (NSEL), Secretary of Department of Industrial Policy and Promote Internal Trade, Ramesh Abhishek and Secretary of Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, K. P. Krishnan, (Defendants) in a suit claiming damages and compensation worth...

'Not The View Of Entire Legal Fraternity', Chennai Lawyers Condemn Statement Of BCI Chairperson On J&K, Article 370 [Read Letter]

In a letter addressed to the Bar Council of India, 81 advocates of the Madras Bar have criticized the Chairperson of Bar Council, Mr. Manan Kumar Mishra for issuing a press release on behalf of entire legal fraternity applauding the action of the government in obliterating the special status of J&K, on behalf of the entire legal fraternity.The letter alleges that the Chairperson used...

Senior Advocate And Former ASG Amarendra Sharan Passes Away

Senior Advocate and former Additional Solicitor General Amarendra Sharan, 69, passed away on Monday morning at Rishikesh due to a heart attack.Having done LLB from Patna University in Bihar, he enrolled with the Bihar State Bar Council in 1975 and started practice in Patna High Court.He later shifted to Delhi, on becoming an Advocate on Record in 1981 and was designated as Senior Advocate...