A terrifying judgment from a High Court in a corruption case!
Supreme Court advocate, K.V.Dhananjay points to a recent judgment of the Karnataka High Court that altogether quashed a corruption trial involving former Chief Minister of Karnataka, B.S.Yedyurappa (BJP) and current...
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Delhi High Court has refused to interfere with the Odd-Even policy for alternate plying of non-commercial four-wheelers in the NCT of Delhi. Court said that it’s outside its scope of judicial review. It observed:The implementation of the Odd-Even scheme may...
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The Supreme Court of India will hear a PIL filed by Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association (SCWLA) seeking castration of those convicted of rape of children and other child sex offences on January 11.The PIL filed on December 12, 2015...
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INTRODUCTION
The Indian Government has been quite vocal and serious in their program of ‘Make in India’ and boosting the ‘ease of doing business in India’. The speedy and efficacious enforcement of contracts, recovery of monetary claims and award of just...
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FIVE SIGNIFICANT JUDGMENTS OF 2015
Limitation to be decided by the Court as preliminary issue under Section 9-A of CPC
While discussing the ambit of Section 9A of the Code of Civil Procedure (CPC) (as amended by Maharashtra Amendment Act) in...
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Krupakar Manukonda has drawn my attention to an interesting Supreme Court judgment handed down yesterday. In Dr. Janet Jeyapaul v SRM University, the question was whether a writ petition was maintainable against the SRM University, which is a “deemed University” within...
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by sflc_admin | December 11, 2015The Telecom regulatory Authority of India has issued a Consultation Paper on Differential Pricing for Data Services on November 9, 2015 and invited public comments to be sent by December 30, 2015. The paper...
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by sflc_admin | December 10, 2015A record of instances of Internet censorship in India between 2012 and 2015 is depicted in the info-graphic below; details of these can be accessed here. First published here.Original author: sflc_admin...
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The recent state elections in Bihar witnessed the return of Lalu Prasad Yadav as a key political player in the state. However, the elections were also notable for the bitter exchanges between the contesting parties in their election rallies and...
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Online retailers have done aggressive advertising and brisk business this festival season, selling things ranging from electronic goods to holidays. Considering the range and number of products, the online retailers are forever close to making pricing mistakes. Would they honour a...
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It's that time of the year again! National Law Institute University, Bhopal is all set to flag off the fourth edition of INADR International Law School Mediation Tournament, 2015, from 27th November to 29th November 2015. Maintaining its long tradition of hosting...
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National Law University, Delhi and the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP), University of Oxford are organising the 2015-16 South Asia Round of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition from 26-29 November 2015.
The Price Media Law Moot Court Competition was started in 2008...
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Supreme Court Advocate K.V.Dhananjay points to a criminal procedural provision that has horribly gone wrong in India. Section 53-A of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 allows the police to use reasonable force to subject a person accused of rape to a...
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As was first reported by 1, Law Street yesterday, a bench of the Supreme Court of India today heard a PIL petition which sought ban on the ‘Sardar/Sikh’ jokes’. Petition has inter alia made the following prayer:issue a writ of...
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Supreme Court Advocate K.V.Dhananjay asks if it is appropriate for dissenting Justice Chelameswar to participate with the majority-judges in the ‘Collegium Reformation’ hearings set for 3rd November, 2015. He says that Justice Chelameswar’s participation in it could muddle and confuse his...
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