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
The High Court has saved a request by which a pre-state of outfitting bank ensure was forced on the charged by the Preliminary Court and the High Court while giving bail. The Bench has deemed this method undesirable and unsustainable. While deciding an appeal in Makhijani Pushpak Harish v. The Read more
Gandhi has asked for a stay of proceedings following his conviction by a Surat Magistrate court for saying that “all thieves have the Modi surname” in 2019. Judge Gita Gopi of the Gujarat High Court withdrew on Wednesday from hearing the appeal filed by Congressman Rahul Gandhi, who was found Read more
The right to default bail is a fundamental right that derives from Article 21 of the Constitution, a bench of Justices Krishna Murari and CT Ravikumar emphasized. In its ruling in Ritu Chhabaria v. Union of India on Wednesday, the Supreme Court emphasized the significance of the Criminal Procedure Code’s Read more
