The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the Sesquicentennial Celebrations of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad on 13 March 2016. Allahabad High Court will complete 150 years of its existence on 17 March 2016. 1. I am delighted to join this distinguished gathering of judges, lega...
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stray dogs The Supreme Court of India has directed that the sterlisation or vaccination of the stray dogs, which require so, be carried out in accordance with law. Court has directed that no organisation shall create any kind of obstacle or impediment in the implementation if this order. It has furt...
Supreme Court of India has issued a notice to UB Group chairman Vijay Mallya after a consortium of 17 banks approached Supreme Court to restrain from leaving the country. Mallaya’s Kingfisher Airlines Ltd. owes Rs. 9,091 crore in loans to various banks. Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, who appeared f...
sri sri ravishankar National Green Tribunal while giving a green signal to the hosting of World Culture Festival organized by the Art of Living Foundation on the flood plains of the river Yamuna, has asked the foundation to pay an ‘initial’ Environmental Compensation of ₹ 5 crores. The fine has been...
The FIR against Umar Khalid and Kanhaiya Kumar The FIR against Umar Khalid and Kanhaiya Kumar JNU Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar arrested on charges of sedition for allegedly being part of anti-national activities in JNU, has been granted an interim bail for six months by the Delhi High Cou...
Supreme Court of India has directed the Gadchiroli trial court to conduct day-to-day hearing in the case involving alleged naxal aid and Delhi University professor Dr. Gokarakonda Naga Saibaba who has been charged for offences punishable under sections 13, 18, 20, 38 and 39 of the Unlawful Activitie...
Supreme Court of India has asked the Central Government to file before it an appropriate affidavit of the competent authority to suggest the ways and means to curb child pornography. The bench comprising of Justice Dipak Misra and Shiva Kirti Singh observed: The innocent children cannot be made prey...
Supreme Court has on 22 February clarified its 5 August 2015 order wherein it had granted three months time to Principal Judge, City Civil & Sessions Court, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, to complete the trial and pronounce the judgment in the 2002- Gulbarga society massacre case pending befo...
Supreme_Court_of_India 16 February 2016 A criminal writ petition in form of PIL was filed by ND Jayapraksh, a JNU student before the Supreme Court of India seeking “appropriate directions to the respondents to ensure a proper and decorus conduct of the proceedings in the Court of Metropolitan Magist...
Ninth Meeting of the Advisory Council of the National Mission for Justice Delivery and Legal Reforms held Press Release -Ministry of Law & Justice 16-February, 2016 20:07 IST Sadannad Gowda The Ninth meeting of the advisory council of the national mission for justice delivery and legal reforms ...
download-order The 2 February order of the Supreme Court referring the curative petitions in the Naz Foundation case to its Constitution Bench is finally available. This batch of curative petitions seeks ‘curing of the defects in the 2013 judgment upholding the validity of section 377 of Indian Pena...
sonia0rahul0-national-herald Dismissing the special leave petitions to appeal filed by Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders, the Supreme Court of India has upheld the judgment of the Delhi High Court wherein it had refused to quash the proceedings in the National Herald case before ...
Allahabad-High-Court On February 8, Supreme Court of India will hear a public interest litigation seeking a direction from the court under Article 142 of the Constitution to set up the main seat of the High Court for the state of Uttar Pradesh at Agra instead of Allahabad, in terms of the terms of t...
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has by majority adopted Opinion No. 54/2015 holding that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arbitrarily detained by the Governments of Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In its opinion, WGAD recognized...
money-1050403_640 Observing that ethics and morals have taken a back seat in the modern India’s scheme of things and that corruption can be beaten if all work together, Justice AB Chaudhary of the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has observed in an order: To eradicate the cancer of corruption t...
countryside-249205_640 The Supreme Court has on February1, vacated the interim order dated April 30, 2008 granted by the Madras High Court staying the issue of patta under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (FRA) on an application file...
pride-828056_640 In a significant move, Supreme Court of India has referred the batch of curative petitions seeking ‘curing of the defects in the 2013 judgment on section 377 of Indian Penal Code’ to a five-judge constitution bench. The December 11, 2013 judgment of the Court had upheld the validity...
Supreme_Court_of_India The Supreme Court of India has today recalled its December 15, 2015 order wherein it had invoked its powers under Article 142 of the Constitution of India and had appointed Justice Virendra Singh, former judge of Allahabad High Court as the Lokayukta of Uttar Pradesh. Apex Cou...
Supreme_Court_of_India Supreme Court of India has issued notice to the Union of India in a writ petition filed by Arunachal Pradesh Congress legislature party chief whip Rajesh Tacho challenging the recommendation of the Union Cabinet which led to the imposition of President’s Rule in Arunachal Prad...
aadhaar-card As per a circular issued by the Supreme Court of India on January 22 , petitions challenging the validity of UIDAI Aadhaar card may soon be heard by the five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India. Listed as item seven on the list, the batch of petitions will be heard fr...