Malaysia’s parliament on Tuesday passed two bills to replace the death penalty and abolish mandatory fines for the crime . Human rights groups welcomed the move as a step towards the complete abolition of the death penalty . ” With the invalidation of the obligatory death penalty, Malaysia is near Read more
BIJOE EMMANUEL V. STATE OF KERALA AND ORS [A.I.R 1987 SC 748] Case Name Bijoe Emmanuel v. State of Kerala and Ors Equivalent Citation A.I.R 1987 SC 748, 1986 SCR (3) 518 Court The Supreme Court of India Parties to the Case] Bijoe Emmanuel (Petitioner), State of Kerala and Ors Read more
In case: Most Rev. Dr. Peter Machado And Ors. UOI and Ors. In the present case, the petitioners are Dr. Peter Machado who is an Archbishop of the Banglore Diocese, National Solidarity Forum, and Evangelica Fellowship of India. This plea is for looking for directions to stop alleged attacks against Read more
The Patna High Court recently ruled that Section 468 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which prohibits taking cognizance after the statute of limitations has expired, only applies to domestic violence cases at the stage of the Domestic Violence Act’s Section 32 (cognizance and proof of a breach of a protection Read more
All courts and tribunals have been advised by the Supreme Court to number all orders and judgements. This statement was issued in a ruling by a bench made up of Justices Krishna Murari and Ahsanuddin Amanullah after seeing that the High Court’s contested decision was not numbered paragraph by paragraph. Read more
According to Rajesh Katariya, a special judge, there are good reasons to think that Navlakha is guilty of the charges leveled against her. A Mumbai court rejected the activist’s request for bail, finding that the Bhima Koregaon case suspect Gautam Navlakha was a part of the outlawed terrorist group Communist Read more
Introduction: Facts: Issue: Contentions of the Petitioners: The petitioner Sajjan Singh contended that the 26th Amendment Act, which abolished the princely privileges and privy purses of the rulers of the former princely states, violated the fundamental rights guaranteed to him under the Indian Constitution. The contentions of the petitioners are Read more
This article is written by Kavya Lakshmi, Intern at Legal Vidhiya. INTRODUCTION: Every nation in this world has acivilised societies and in order to carry out its activities and functions, it becomes necessary to establish certain basic organs or agents. For the state to function effectively it requires laws, rules, Read more
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court ruled that government workers cannot be refused the annual raise just because they will be retiring the day after receiving it. In an appeal brought by the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Ltd., a bench made up of Justices MR Shah and CT Ravikumar Read more
This article is written by Zeerak Jabeen of Dept. of Law, University of Kashmir, an intern under Legal Vidhiya “A lis pendens is a sword and a shield. It can be used offensively to impair a defendant’s ability to transfer property, and defensively to protect a plaintiff’s interest in the Read more