News Update Entitlement of compensation under Section 357A (4) can be availed by victims even prior to the enactment 29 Dec 2020 Case title - District Collector Alappuzha v. District Legal Service Authority, Alappuzha and others [WP(C).No.7250 OF 2014(E)]. A landmark judgement was passed by Kerala High Court about the Section 357A…
News Update Patna HC quashes criminal proceedings of foreign nationals accused in Tablighi Jamaat 29 Dec 2020 tA Single Judge bench of Justice Rajeev Ranjan Prasad of the Patna High Court quashed criminal proceedings against nationals of Bangladesh, Malaysia and Australia who had visited the Nizamudin Markaz…
News Update SC upheld Bombay HC order which denied student admission to medical course as it was against reservation policy of college 29 Dec 2020 The petitioner was a medical aspirant in the present case and had pursued her studies in Class VIII to X in a school in Sarigram, Gujarat, which is at a…
News Update Maharashtra Government pays 50,000 damages for illegal detention of 2 men 28 Dec 2020 The petition is filed for giving direction to Respondents to pay compensation of Rs.5,00,000/- to each of Petitioners on the ground that the Petitioners were illegally arrested and detained in…
News Update Honour killing suspected: two held 27 Dec 2020 In a suspected case of 'honour killing', a 27 year old man was killed by his father in law and his wife's uncle, on Friday, in Kerala's Palakkad district. The…
News Update Director of Dwarka School was summoned by Delhi Court for their willful neglect of 4 year old sexual assault inside their school 27 Dec 202027 Dec 2020 ln 2017, a four and half year old girl was sexually assaulted inside the premises of Dwarka Private School by her classmate. But the Director of the school has neglected…
News Update China is sending a four-member team to Kathmandu 27 Dec 2020 China is sending a four-member team led by a vice minister of the Chinese Communist Party to Kathmandu to prevent a split in the ruling the Nepal Communist Party. Nepal…
News Update The Supreme Court held that blanket ban cannot be imposed on grant of anticipatory bail in illegal mining or quarrying cases 26 Dec 20201 Feb 2021 In S. Mohamed Shahul Hameed v. State represented by the inspector of police, the Supreme Court held that there can be no blanket ban on granting bail in cases of…
News Update Sharp spike in domestic violence cases in 2020: 26 Dec 202026 Dec 2020 For the Ministry of woman and child development, the prime cause of concern in the year 2020 is the huge spike in the cases of domestic violence with over 5000…
News Update Delhi Riots: Mehmood Pracha moves court to preserve copy of search’s video footage 26 Dec 202026 Dec 2020 A special cell of the Delhi Police had raided Advocate Mehmood Pracha' s office, who is one of the advocates in the matters of the Delhi Riots that took place…
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