PIL Seeking Guidelines for Search and Seizure at Advocate’s Premises

The High Court of Delhi received a PIL by Advocate Nikhil Borwankar regarding the implementation of the new legislation on the police who are performing search and seizure in the advocate’s premises. Advocate Prashant Bhushan appeared on the petitioner’s side stating that the police who perform search and seizure in the advocate’s premises are forciblyRead More

Denying Opportunity to Eligible Female Candidates to Join NDA is Violation of Fundamental Rights: Plea Filed in Supreme Court

A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hrishikesh Roy of the Hon’ble Supreme Court granted the Centre a final opportunity to file its response on a plea seeking directions to allow eligible and willing female candidates to join National Defence Academy(NDA), appear for the Naval Academy Examination and train at the National Defence Academy.Read More

Allegation on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Contempt of Court

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah had appointed Rakesh Asthana as Delhi Police Commissioner as Narendra Modi heads the appointment committee. Rakesh Asthana is an IPS officer and former CBI Special Director as well from which he had retired lately. Being aggrieved by the appointment of Rakesh Asthana as Delhi Police CommissionerRead More

There has to be a Certain Balance Between Freedom of Press and Right to Privacy: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court on Friday, ordered to remove certain content from the internet that was prima facie defamatory to the Actress. Shilpa Shetty on Thursday filed a defamation suit against several media organizations seeking an injunction against false, malicious, and defamatory content published by them. This came after the husband of the actress, RajRead More

Supreme Court Directs the Government to Rehabilitate and Vaccinate Beggars

The PIL regarding the restrain and rehabilitation of the beggars in the wake of this pandemic situation was brought before the court by the petitioner Kush Karla on 27.07.2021, before the bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and MR Shah. “We can’t restrain beggars. Nobody wants to beg it’s all the situation leading the human toRead More

14 Member SIT to look into the Death of Late Justice Uttam Anand

The Jharkhand High Court has taken Suo Motu cognizance of the killing of Judge Uttam Anand who died succumbing to his injuries after an auto-rickshaw rammed into him. Additional District and Sessions Judge Uttam Anand, 50, was killed on Wednesday morning when he was out for his morning walk near the magistrate colony. He wasRead More

Kerala High Court Permits a Mentally Disabled Rape Victim to Terminate her Pregnancy

-Report by RIDDHI DUBEY Kerala High Court on Monday granted an order to terminate the pregnancy of a mentally disabled woman from Bihar as it believed that she was not in the state of mind to take such a big decision. FACTS In the present case, a woman was found roaming the street and wasRead More

UAPA: A Barbaric Legacy or the need of the Hour?

Former Supreme Court judges Aftab Alam, Madan B Lokur, Gopala Gowda, and Deepak Gupta came together for a webinar organized by the non-profit Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms (CJAR) on Saturday over the misuse of anti-terror legislation in India. Justice Alam said, “When compared to the number of cases registered, the conviction rate dropsRead More