News Update Madras HC allows celebrated music director Ilaiyaraja to meditate in his former music studio for a day 29 Dec 2020 After a long battle, the HC recently recorded a settlement between Ilaiyaraja and the proprietors of Prasad Studios that would allow him a day to meditate in the music room where he…
News Update Section 12 of the Juvenile Justice Act will override provisions of the NDPS Act in cases concerning juveniles, says Patna HC 29 Dec 2020 Background A minor was accused of abetting the transport of cannabis in his role as a khalasi of a truck. The minor’s counsel argued that the minor neither had knowledge…
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 Delhi HC Issues Summons in Copyright Infringement Suit Filed by Elsevier 28 Dec 2020 Justice Rajiv Shakdher of the Delhi High Court has issued summons in the suit filed by Elsevier Ltd. against Alexandra Elbakyan and others alleging infringement of Elsevier’s copyright in several…
News Update Holding hand of minor to express love, inadvertent physical touch without sexual intent not assault under POCSO 28 Dec 2020 The Bombay High Court recently held that merely holding or touching hand to express love towards a minor without sexual intent does not amount to offence of sexual assault under…
News Update Jammu and Kashmir High Court directs doctors to end two-finger test in rape cases 28 Dec 2020 The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has strictly asked health professionals in the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh to stop the practice of two-finger test on rape…
News Update Jharkhand High Court Observes Procedural Irregularity at the Behest of Disciplinary Authority 27 Dec 2020 In a case past two decades, Justice Deepak Roshan of the Jharkhand High Court has observed that the court is having no hesitation to hold that there is a procedural…
News Update Indian Singers Rights Association vs Dharma Productions[CS(COMM) 562/2020] 27 Dec 2020 BackgroundIndian Singers Rights Association in its plea has submitted that the defendant (Dharma Production) commercially utilized three performances of the members of the plaintiff society i.e. performers’ rights in ‘Ae…
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 Madras HC Directs Madras Government to provide compensation to woman who was given HIV-positive blood 26 Dec 202026 Dec 2020 A 23-year-old pregnant woman had tested positive for HIV, after she was transfused the blood of a donor, who had the virus. This happened at a government hospital in Sattur,…
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