8 Mar 2021 – Lawcutor

168 Rohingya outcasts, living in Jammu and Kashmir were on Saturday shipped off a ‘holding focus’.

Background The Rohingyas are a Bengali-vernacular speaking Muslim minority in Myanmar. Following mistreatment in their country, a large number of them entered India unlawfully through Bangladesh and took cover in Jammu…

Supreme Court Bar Association files a plea against the SOPs released by the Registry

The Supreme Court Bar Association has filed a writ petition, seeking to quash the Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs) laid down by the Supreme Court registry for Hybrid Physical Hearing. According…

Maratha Quota case: SC states, Indra Sawhney case will be reconsidered if required

While addressing the Maratha reservation case challenging the Bombay High Court order upholding quotas for Marathas in education and employment under the Maharashtra Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Act, the…

“Reported & Projected Wrongly”: Clarifies Supreme Court on its statement of “Will you Marry the Victim?”

8 Mar 20212 May 2021

The Honourable Supreme Court of India today expressed its strong disagreement at the "complete misreporting" of last week's hearing of a rape case in which it had purportedly asked a…

Insults to religion made carelessly without intention to outrage religious feelings will not attract Section 295A IPC: Tripura High Court

The Tripura High Court in a recent order observed that insults to religion made unwittingly or carelessly without any deliberate or malicious intention to outrage the religious feelings of a…

Offences punishable up to 3 years and not covered under IPC are cognizable and non-bailable: Bombay HC

An anticipatory bail was filed by the applicant against the FIR filed by the complainant.The FIR was lodged under Indian Penal Code, 1860 and Copyright Act, 1957 on the fact…