News Update Already Married woman living with some another man without divorcing her husband cannot seek legal sanctity: Allahabad HC 1 Feb 2021 If a married woman stays in a live-in relationship with another person without ending her marriage, then in the eyes of Law, this act will be termed as crime with…
News Update Sub standard quality of testimony of victim, absence of scuffle injuries: Bombay High Court acquits rape, POCSO accused 1 Feb 2021 The Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court, on January 15, acquitted a 26-year-old accused charged under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO Act) for the offence of…
News Update UP Police filed an FIR against “The Wire” for promoting fake news 1 Feb 2021 An FIR against The Wire's founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan has been reported by the UP Police for his tweet regarding a report on The Wire in which the family of…
News Update Supreme Court to decide filing period of chargesheet in matter of Default Bail 1 Feb 2021 In this case, the accused had been booked under Section 3 of the Official Secrets Act, 1923, for allegedly leaking information to the Chinese Agents. The offence which was alleged…
News Update Mandeep Pandey, Freelance Journalist picked from Singhu Border and sent to 14 days Judicial Custody, Bail Hearing Today 1 Feb 2021 Mandeep Punia, a freelance journalist and contributor for The Caravan magazine, was covering the farmers' protest and subsequent clashes at Singhu border when he was detained by the Delhi Police…
News Update Case of the National Herald: Delhi court abolishes criminal proceedings against Motilal Vora, the late Congress leader 31 Jan 2021 In the National Herald Case, Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court come from different sources the criminal proceedings against Congress leader Motilal Vohra. After the late Congress leader's counsel placed his death…
News Update Mahatma Gandhi statue vandalised in US; India demands action 31 Jan 2021 The 6-ft tall, 650-pound (294 kg) bronze statue of Gandhi, in the Central Park of the City of Davis in Northern California, appeared to have been sawed off at the…
News Update FIR against web series “Mirzapur” is prima facie inaccurate, says Allahabad HC 31 Jan 202131 Jan 2021 BackgroundThe First Information Report that was registered against the petitioners, under Section 67 - A of Information Technology Act and Sections 295 - A, 504, 505 read with Section 34…
News Update Rehearing of Appeal on Questions of Law as well as Fact in the Jurisdiction of Appellate Court mentioned u/s 96 of CPC : SC 31 Jan 2021 In the case of Manjula vs. Shyamsundar [CIVIL APPEAL NO. 6744 of 2013], supreme court observed that an appellate court's jurisdiction u/s 96 of cpc, involves a rehearing of appeal…
News Update Pune Commercial Court Reject Cutis Biotech Plea on “Covishield” Trademark 31 Jan 2021 In Cutis Biotech v. Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd., Commercial Suit No.1/2021 (CNR No. : MHPU010001072021 ), a commercial court of Pune refused to pass interim injunction (II) to restrain the Serum Institute of India(SII)…