Insolvency Code Amendment Passed By Lok Sabha Treats Home Buyers As Financial Creditors [Read Bill]

The Lok Sabha has passed the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Second Amendment Bill) 2018. One of the significant features of the Bill is that it recognizes home buyers, who have invested money in real estate projects for allotment of residential flats, as financial creditors. This is sought to be done by expanding the definition of 'financial debt' as given in Section 5(8) of the Code....

This Is Hardly Good Governance: SC Asks State Of Jharkhand To Make Regular Appointments Only [Read Judgment]

‘What has eventually been achieved by the State of Jharkhand is to short circuit the process of regular appointments and instead make appointments on an irregular basis. This is hardly good governance.’This is hardly good governance, remarked a Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur observing that the State of Jharkhand continued with the irregular appointments for almost...

Cannot Cancel Entire Exam If Two Students Were Found Copying: SC Upholds ASTE Exam In Gauhati [Read Order]

The Supreme Court last week upheld the examination held for selection to the post of Assistant Signal-and- Telecommunication Engineer (ASTE) (Grade-B) against 30% LDCE quota vacancies in Gauhati.The Bench comprising Justice S.A. Bobde and Justice L. Nageswara Rao opined that the State could not have cancelled the entire exam if only two students were found copying, observing, “In...

All Live-in Relationships Are Not Covered Under Provisions Of Domestic Violence Act: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

" It is only those relationships which qualify to be the relationship in the nature of marriage which are governed by that provision. In order to constitute such a relationship, a legal marriage between the two must be possible.”The Bombay High Court has held that in order to claim any relief under the provisions of the Domestic Violence Act, relations between the woman and her partner must...

Ten Years Old Diesel Vehicles Shall Not Ply In Delhi, NCR, Non BS-IV Vehicles Not To Be Registered, Holds NGT [Read Order]

Ten years old commercial diesel vehicles shall not ply in the Delhi and National Capital Region (NCR), the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has held.New diesel vehicles which are not BS-IV(Bharat Stage emission norms) or which are not needed for essential services (such as Ambulances, Fire services, petroleum, food carriers, sewer cleaning machines and LPG trucks)food shall also not be...

SC Slaps Cost Of Rs 75L On Litigant For Re-filing Delay Of Over 1,000 Days In An Arbitration Matter Before Madras HC [Read Order]

In an arbitration matter pending before the Madras High Court, the Supreme Court imposed a cost of Rs. 75 lakh on a litigant whose application for condonation of representation delay of more than thousand days was allowed by the division bench.R Krishnamurthy had preferred applications under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, to set aside an arbitration award, with...

Death for Child Rape : Lok Sabha Passes Criminal Law Amendment Bill [Read Bill]

On Monday, July 30, the Lok Sabha passed Criminal Law(Amendment) Bill making rape of girl below the age of twelve years an offence punishable with death. The Bill seeks to amend provisions of Indian Penal Code(IPC), Code of Criminal Procedure, Evidence Act and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO). It replaced the Ordinance promulgated by the Central Government during April...

Delhi HC Re-Unites Interfaith Couple; Comes Down Heavily On Police Authorities [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court last week came to the rescue of an inter-faith couple, directing that they be re-united immediately while rapping the Police authorities for their conduct in the case.The order was issued by a Bench comprising Justice S. Muralidhar and Justice Vinod Goel on a habeas corpus petition filed by one Sandeep Kumar.Kumar had submitted that he and Nisha tied the knot in...

SC/ST Community Certificate From Another State Cannot Be Used to Gain Medical Admission In Tamil Nadu: Madras HC [Read Order]

The Madras High Court recently ruled that students who have secured a community certificate from another state cannot use the same to secure MBBS admission under reserved categories in Tamil Nadu.The order was issued by Justice S. Vaidyanathan on a petition filed by one S. Geetha, who had sought a direction to the Selection Committee to consider her candidature under the Scheduled Tribe...

Activist & Advocate Ajit Nayak Hacked To Death In Uttara-Kannada

Renowned lawyer and activist Ajit Nayak was reportedly murdered on Friday night by unknown assailants in Dandeli, a small town in Uttara Kannada.According to a report by The News Minute, Mr. Nayak was attacked by several unknown men, who used sharp weapons to hack at him, when he was returning home from his office in JN Road at around 9:30 pm. While passers-byy rushed him to the hospital,...

Concerns Flagged Over Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill

There is opposition that the Bill encroaches on powers of State Government. It is also felt that the Bill does not adequately address concerns of road safetyThe passing of the Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill in the Rajya Sabha has hit a road block after several members from the opposition raised concerns about it. The Bill, which was introduced in Lok Sabha during August 2016, makes several amendments in the Motor Vehicle Act 1988. Though the Bill was passed by Lok Sabha during April 2017, it was...

Calcutta HC Reduces Sentence Of Rape Accused As He Married The Victim [Read Judgment]

‘The fact that the prosecutrix and the appellant are married (to each other) and have settled in life with their children appears to be “adequate and special reason” for imposing lesser sentence.’In July 2015, the Supreme Court had pronounced a judgment in which it categorically observed that in a case of rape or attempt of rape, the conception of compromise under no circumstances...