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Rajasthan High Court Partly Allows Accused's Plea To Summon Document On POCSO Victim's Age, Says No Delay In Filing S.91 CrPC Plea
Rajasthan High Court has partly allowed a POCSO accused's plea challenging a trial court order which had rejected his application under Section 91 CrPC seeking production of the complainant's admission ticket issued by the Community Health Centre to determine her age. The trial court rejected the application on the ground that the cross-examination with regard to the age of the victim has...
AI Cannot Replace Judicial Verification; J&K&L High Court Directs Judicial Officers To Verify AI-Generated Citations Before Use
Addressing the growing use of Artificial Intelligence in the judicial system, the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has cautioned judicial officers against relying upon AI-generated legal material without independent verification, observing that while artificial intelligence tools may assist legal research, they cannot substitute judicial scrutiny, verification and application...
The Structural Hole In India's Data Protection Law
In the year 2023, when India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act was passed, it was welcomed as a long overdue development in India's data protection framework. After nearly a decade of failed legislative efforts, a comprehensive data protection statute had finally materialized. The act begins with a language suggesting consent centric model of data governance: personal data may only be processed with the free, specific, informed, unconditional, and unambiguous consent of the data principal....
Custodial Death | Gauhati HC Awards ₹25 Lakh Compensation To Businessman's Widow, Says Pending Trial Against Cops No Bar
The Gauhati High Court earlier this week directed the Assam Government to pay an additional ₹20 lakh, apart from ₹5 lakh already paid as interim relief, as 'palliative' compensation to the widow of a businessman who was allegedly abducted, brutally tortured and killed by police personnel in 2020. While awarding compensation under the public law remedy, a bench of Justice Kalyan...
Cut-Off Date In Recruitment Not Arbitrary, Candidates Must Possess Qualification By Last Date Of Application: P&H High Court
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has held that prescribing the last date of submission of applications as the cut-off date for determining eligibility in recruitment processes is neither arbitrary nor unconstitutional, reiterating that candidates must possess the requisite qualifications by the stipulated date.Dismissing a writ petition filed by a candidate seeking relaxation of...
MNLU Nagpur Organises National Conference On Environmental Law, Forensic Science And Justice; Invites Abstracts and Research Paper
Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur (MNLU Nagpur), established by the Government of Maharashtra in 2015, is a premier institution with a student-centric approach to legal education. The University commenced its academic activities on August 1, 2016, and currently offers a comprehensive range of programs designed to produce transformative legal minds. The University's undergraduate portfolio encompasses three five-year integrated degree programmes B.A.LL.B. (Hons.), B.B.A.LL.B. (Hons.),...
Preliminary Assessment Or Problematic Estimation: Section 15 of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection Of Children) Act, 2015
Seventy nine percent of juveniles in conflict with law apprehended in the year 2023 were in the age group of 16 years to 18 years[1]. This age bracket among the juveniles in conflict with law gains relevance not only due to overarching societal impact of the increased interaction of children with criminal justice system, but also due to the legal dichotomy laid down in The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, wherein juveniles belonging to the age group of 16-18 years...
Specific Relief Act | Buyer's Delay In Issuing Legal Notice To Seller Not Ground To Deny Specific Performance : Supreme Court
The Court held that when a suit seeking specific performance of an agreement to sell is filed within the limitation, any delay in issuing a legal notice is irrelevant to the denial of relief.