December 2020 – Page 15 – Lawcutor

Honourable Supreme Court issues Notice on SLPs against Kerala High Court Judgement on Minimum Wage Rules

The Supreme Court on Friday issued notices on two special leave petitions filed against a judgment of the Kerala High Court dealing with amendments brought to the Kerala Minimum Wages…

Transfer of Case of Tablighi Jamaat Leader to NIA: Delhi HC Dismisses Plea

The Division Bench of the Delhi High Court comprising Justices Siddharth Mridul and Talwant Singh, dismissed a plea seeking the transfer of investigation of a case against Tablighi Jamaat leader…

Pathalgadi cases: Jharkhand government yet to recommend withdrawal of cases

The withdrawal of all cases related to the Pathalgadi movement was the first decision and promise made by the Hemant Soren-led JMM government in Jharkhand. However today it has been…

Trupti Desai detained en route to Shirdi

The Maharashtra police on Thursday has detained gender rights activist and bhumata brigade leader Trupti Desai along with other members at Ahmednagar while they were en route to sai baba…

Supreme Court : “Universities can fix enhanced norms, standards for affiliation”

The Supreme Court in the case of, APJ Abdul Kalam Technology University v. Jai Bharat College of Management and Engineering Technology, held that universities cannot dilute the standards prescribed by…

Allahabad High Court says gratuity due to employee cannot be stopped

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The Allahabad High Court has held that Under no conditions, the gratuity of an employee is prevented. Even if the decree passed by the Court or in some other way…

Supreme Court quashed the FIR against Devang Mishra while interpreting section 153A IPC

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Section 153A of the IPC was interpreted by Supreme Court where the court held that the term 'public tranquility' must be read in a restricted sense synonymous with public order…

Australia’s billion dollar coronavirus vaccine is SCRAPPED after trial participants returned HIV false positives

The University of Queensland had been developing the Covid vaccine in partnership with pharmaceutical company CSL and the government had ordered 51 million doses. However, it has been scrapped after…

Maharashtra cabinet has passed two bills containing death provisions

The Maharashtra cabinet on Wednesday passed two bills that contains death provisions for crimes such as rape, child abuse and acid attack. The bills named as the Special Court and…

Delhi High Court seeks stand of Centre & RBI on a PIL for regulating techfin firms like FB, Google, Amazon

Background- The petition filed by an economist, Ms.Resmi P Bhaskaran, techfin entities are technology, telecommunications or e-commerce companies which have entered the financial sector to provide financial services and need…