In a recent development, the Supreme Court has issued an order to stay the operative part of the Madras High Court’s ruling, which had previously set aside a notification issued by the Tamil Nadu State Commissioner of Food Safety imposing a ban on the sale of various tobacco and nicotine-containing Read more…
On April 20, a sessions court in Surat rejected his request to have his conviction and the two-year prison sentence imposed by a magistrate court suspended. Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the Congress, filed a petition with the Gujarat High Court on Tuesday asking for a stay of the Magistrate Read more…
Today, Senior Advocate Saurabh Kirpal argued before the Supreme Court that not legalising gay weddings in India risks encouraging lavender marriages between men and women, in which one or both partners are homosexual. In his argument in support of the petitions calling for the legal recognition of gay weddings in Read more…
Today, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud reminded the petitioners asking for the legal recognition of gay marriages in India that Parliament has the authority to enact laws governing marriage and divorce and therefore enquired as to the extent of Supreme Court intervention in such issues. He said, “The framework Read more…
A court in France has halted the government’s plans to expel migrants from the island of Mayotte, which is located in the Indian Ocean. Mayotte is an overseas department and region of France, and it is the only part of the Comoros archipelago that remains under French control. The court’s Read more…
The Kerala High Court recently made a decision in a case involving an accused individual who had been charged with attempted murder. The accused had allegedly attacked the victim with a knife, causing severe injuries that required hospitalization. The accused had been in custody for several months, awaiting trial. During Read more…
Recently, high court of Andhra Pradesh ruled in favor of father who was alleged to have kidnapped his minor sons of the age ten (10) and eight (8). The father along with his brother (paternal uncle of children), took away his children from the supervision of their maternal grandparents. On Read more…
The Maze restaurant was ordered by the District Consumer Redressal Commission in Ernakulam to pay the complainant for both the poor service and the emotional anguish it caused her. A restaurant was recently fined 40,000 by a Kerala consumer court for failing to deliver Onam sadya to the complainant’s flat Read more…
The Gujarat High Court’s ruling that Ayurveda practitioners should receive the same pay benefits as MBBS doctors has been overturned by the Supreme Court. In their decision, Justices V Ramasubramanian and Pankaj Mithal acknowledged that the two categories of doctors do not perform the same work and therefore cannot be Read more…
On Monday, the Supreme Court issued instructions to all High Courts regarding the digitalization of lower court records. The division bench of Justices Krishna Murari and Sanjay Karol made the following observation while hearing a criminal appeal in which the lower court records were lost: “The job of the Court Read more…