News Update – Page 81 – Lawcutor

Admission of students to Universities on their performance in entrance exams rather than Grade XII results

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On Monday, The Kerala High Court directed the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations to refrain from publishing the rank list before disposal of the petition. The petition ment that to admit…

Delhi High Court allows a woman to terminate pregnancy

A 32-year-old woman, who completed 22-week gestation period, had sought permission to undergo medical termination of her pregnancy as her foetus was suffering from various defects and abnormalities. Advocate Sneha…

Lok Sabha passes bill to amend general insurance law

The Lok Sabha has passed the General Insurance Business Amendment Bill, 2021 with the sole motive to amend the general insurance law to allow the Government to pare its stake…

SC has issued a notice in response to a petition filed against a Kerala HC

The proceedings against the accused were first dismissed by a High Court bench headed over by Justice K. Haripal on the basis of the accused's marriage to the victims. The…

Five reasons why NIA is contradicting Sudha Bharadwaj’s default safeguard supplication in Bombay HC

The National Examination Office (NIA) has restricted the default safeguard application recorded by Bhima Koregaon denounced Sudha Bharadwaj (Sudha Bharadwaj v. State of Maharashtra & Anr). Bharadwaj had moved the…

Grounds of Preventive detention do not involve apprehension of breach of Law and Order: Supreme Court

On Monday, the Supreme Court while dealing with a case of detention order made due to 5 FIRs against the Detenu quashed the detention order and held that a mere…

Plea seeking appointment of mental health professionals in schools

On Monday, the Delhi High Court sought responses from the Delhi government and the Institute of Human Behaviour & Allied Sciences (IHBAS) to a petition mentioning non-implementation of the Mental…

Supreme Court to hear urgently Naresh Sharma plea against his non-selection in Paralympic, Tokyo 2020

After the plea was brought in front of bench headed by Justice Ramana, the matter has been listed for urgent hearing before three judge bench today.The paralympian(petitioner in this case)…

Rape survivor’s plea rejected by SC to marry rapist Catholic Priest

The survivor's plea was that the convict (Catholic Priest Robin Vadakkumcherry) should be granted bail so that she can marry him in order to grant legitimacy to the child born…

Andhra – Telengana water dispute, CJI Ramana refuses to hear the matter

Monday 2nd August 2021, CJI N.V Ramana refused to hear the matter relating to water dispute between State of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The matter came up before this Court…