Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha issued strict directions to the Director General of Prisons of Uttar Pradesh to take all necessary steps to ensure that applications for premature release or remission are duly considered. The directions were passed in a matter where a Read more
A change of bench has taken place in the PIL filed in the Supreme Court alleging that mass religious conversions were taking place in India through forceful and fraudulent means. The matter, which was being heard by a bench led by Justice MR Shah, will be heard by a bench Read more
On 31st December, 2021, Government Girls PU College, Udupi imposed a sudden restriction on the hijab inside classrooms. The college enforced this restriction in the absence of any rule, resolution or guideline. The college uniform was a blue coloured chudidhar with dupatta, and they prohibited students from using the dupatta Read more
On Friday, the Supreme Court was informed that the Centre has plans to bring in a comprehensive legislative amendments to the criminal laws to deal with the issue of hate speech. Additional Solicitor General KM Natraj revealed this development to a Bench of Justices KM Joseph and BV Nagarathna while Read more
A lawyer in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district has filed a private complaint in the local Court against Bihar Education Minister Chandrashekhar over his alleged statement that Ramcharitmanas, an epic Hindu religious book, “spreads hatred in the society”. The Complaint has been filed before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur by a lawyer Read more
The Orissa High Court has observed that it is “too broad a generalization” to hold that a woman would never speak which will be detrimental to her character and estimation. Therefore, in rape cases, the rule that version of the prosecutrix need no corroboration cannot be taken as a ‘rigid Read more
The Supreme Court observed that criminal proceedings for demand of dowry cannot be quashed merely because divorce petition is pending. In this case, the husband filed an application for divorce on the ground that the wife is suffering from the disease AIDS. The wife, thereafter, lodged FIR alleging that husband Read more
The Chief Justice, High Court of Himachal Pradesh, Justice Amjad A. Sayed, today inaugurated Legal Aid Defense Counsel System Offices, through video conferencing, in six Districts Headquarters, namely Shimla, Sirmaur at Nahan, Solan, Kangra at Dharamshala, Kullu, and Una, in the august presence of Justice Sabina, Executive Chairperson, H.P. State Read more
During the hearing of the dispute between the Delhi Government and the Centre over the control of civil services, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud explained why he chose to use the expression “founding fathers and mothers of the Constitution” in the 2018 Constitution Bench judgment in Govt of NCT Read more
The Orissa High Court has recently ordered two lakhs’ rupees compensation to the wife and son of a man who died after coming in contact with a live electric wire in 2001. While allowing the writ petition, the Single Judge Bench of Justice Biswanath Rath reprimanded the electricity department and Read more