The 2022 Bill’s goal is to make unlawful religious conversion an offence with a three- to ten-year maximum sentence that is cognizable and non-bailable. The Uttarakhand Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill, 2022 was approved by the Uttarakhand State Legislative Assembly on Tuesday with the goal of strengthening the current anti-conversion Read more
The Allahabad High Court has taken disciplinary action against the jamadar who used a PayTm QR code to collect tips from advocates while on court property. Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal took the situation seriously and demanded that the jamadar, who was an employee of the Court of Justice Ajit Singh, Read more
Bilkis Bano appeals the Supreme Court to prevent the release of 11 convicts and to reconsider the decision that allowed forgiveness in accordance with Gujarat’s 1992 policy. Advocate Shobha Gupta presented the petitions today for listing before a bench headed over by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud. Bilkis Bano, Read more
The Supreme Courts Bench of CJI Chandrachud and Justic PS Narsimha refused to entertain a PIL filed by an advocate and BJP Leader Ashwini Upadhyay who sought directions to double the number of judges in the trial courts and High Courts of India.The Bench stated that “such simplistic solutions and Read more
A convict whose death sentence was commuted to life in a rape-cum-murder case has petitioned the Madras High Court for access to a computer and printer inside the prison in order to prepare an appeal to the Supreme Court for his premature release.The Bench of Justices P.N. Prakash and RMT Read more
Women who violate a woman’s modesty are guilty under Section 354 of the IPC: Metropolitan Court Mumbai As the offence under Section 354 falls within the chapter “Criminal Force and Assault,” the Court recognised that it is not a sexual offence and decided that it would apply to both men Read more
The Supreme Court on Monday while expressing deep disappointment stated that it expected that the Bar Council of India to suspend the licences of the lawyers who have been on strike in Odisha over a long-standing demand for a permanent bench of the Orissa High Court in the state’s western Read more
On Monday, the Madras High Court questioned the State for a response to a lawyer’s petition to make rules and regulations against bike riders who drive their bikes recklessly and dangerously in public places and to stop people from using modified or transformed bikes without permission from the Regional Transport Read more
The bench of Justice Kauser Edappagath while dealing with the petition filed to quash all further proceedings in Crime registered for the offences punishable under Sections 376, 417 and 493 of IPC stated that if a man retracts his promise to marry a woman, consensual sex would not constitute an offence under Read more
On 24th November 2022, the Shahdara Bar Association of Delhi prescribed a dress code for the law student and law graduates who wish to intern at the court.The reason behind issuing this notice was that there was a difficulty in distinguishing law students and law graduates interning at the Court Read more