Facts The petitioner wrote to the Economic Offences Wing of the Crime Branch CID on April 25, 2008, alleging that Shri Vijay Kirtilal Mehta, Dr. Narendra Trivedi, and others engaged in a criminal conspiracy in which they forged or caused to be forged various documents, including alleged agreements of assignments, Read more
The former Punjab Police Constable Balwant Singh was convicted due to his engagement in the explosion outside the Punjab Civil Secretariat that took the life of Beant Singh, former chief minister of Punjab with 16 others in 1995. Therefore, the special court in 2007 gave the death sentence to Balwant Read more
Introduction: Basanthi Sarkar and Ors. vs. State of West Bengal and Ors. is a landmark case decided by the High Court of Calcutta on 8th December 2009. The case involves the issue of whether a woman, who is married to a man from a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe, loses Read more
The Supreme Court was scheduled to listen to on 1 May 2023 a set of pleas, including one filed by the Editors Guild, challenging the validity of the colonial-era sedition law. The Centre is desired to apprise the court of the efforts taken so far with concern to inspecting the Read more
Marriage is typically a sacred ritual in which two individuals tie the knot and it is believed their bond can never be broken. In the early stages, according to manusmriti, a husband and wife could never be separated. However, over a period of time the concept of separation, ‘divorce’ came Read more
The Supreme Court stated once more that an action to cancel an instrument brought under Section31 of the Specific Relief Act of 1963 is not an action in rem. It implies that the undoingof instrument according to this segment will tie just the gatherings to the procedures and won’tworkgenerally against Read more
During a hearing for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s plea to stay his conviction in a criminal defamation case for his comment “all thieves have Modi surname” at an election rally, Justice Hemant Prachchhak, a single-judge of the Gujarat High Court, emphasised that since Gandhi is an elected representative of the Read more
Vice-Chancellor Prof. Ved Kumari stated that any claims of bullying or mental strain against any student in the name of discipline are without merit. Another student at National Law University Odisha (NLU Odisha) has died by suicide for the second time in about a year. Aniraj Mansa Tudu, a fourth-year Read more
RSS proponent S. Gurumurthy told the Delhi High Court on 27 April 2023 that he will not file a second affidavit presenting an ‘unconditional apology’ for his tweet against former Delhi High Court judge and serving Chief Justice of Orissa High Court, Justice S Muralidhar. Senior Advocate Mahesh Jethmalani presented Read more
CJI DY Chandrachud said orally during Thursday’s marriage equality petition hearing that Indian culture was “extraordinarily inclusive” and that the British Victorian morality forced Indians to abandon their cultural ethos and exclude queer people. When Solicitor General Tushar Mehta argued that the queer movement began in India around 2002, a Read more
