News Update Kali Shankar vs. Election Commission Of India And Another[PIL No. – 1397 of 2020] 20 Dec 2020 Background A petition was filed by Kali Shankar in the Allhabad HC against the issues relating the election symbols allotted by the Election Commission of India to the contesting candidates…
News Update No coercive measures to be taken against accused under UP anti-conversion law 19 Dec 2020 A case was booked under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020 against the petitioner, Nadeem on the basis of claims made by an informant. The…
News Update Anticipatory Bail Can Be Granted Even After Chargesheet Has Been Filled: Allahabad High Court 19 Dec 2020 A single bench of the Allahabad High Court comprising of Justice Siddharth held that anticipatory bail can be granted even after a chargesheet in the criminal case has been filed,…
News Update Update on sexual harassment allegations against M.J. Akbar 18 Dec 2020 Final hearing on behalf of Priya Ramani was concluded today. It was stated that the defamation case against Priya Ramani was owing to a fraud that MJ Akbar tried to…
News Update SC reserves order of Tata Sons vs Cyrus Mistry, directs parties to file written submissions within a week 18 Dec 2020 The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved judgment in the cross-appeals filed by Tata Sons and Cyrus Investments against the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal’s (NCLAT) order which had restored Cyrus Mistry as…
News Update Neeraj v. State of Rajasthan(S.B. Writ Petition No. 4384/2020) 17 Dec 202025 Dec 2020 Judgement- The Rajasthan High Court ordered that a female government servant who joined government service after her pregnancy would be entitled to maternity leave if she joined during her period…
News Update ‘Indian Citizen’ includes OCI card-holders for professional course admission: Karnataka HC 17 Dec 2020 'A division bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and N S Sanjay Gowda of the Karnataka High Court heard the joint writ petitions of minor Overseas Citizen of India (OCI)…
News Update Karnataka High Court says denying a job on compassionate grounds to a married daughter violates right to equality 16 Dec 2020 This observation was made on Tuesday by the single-judge Karnataka High Court bench of Justice M. Nagaprasanna while considering a petition brought by Bhuvaneshwari V. Puranik challenging the denial of…
News Update Orders By Public Institutions Should Be Made Available Online For Good Governance: Delhi High Court 16 Dec 2020 A Single Bench of the Delhi High Court comprising Justice Prathiba M. Singh, in M/S Civicon Engineering Contracting India Pvt. Ltd. v. Central Board Of Trustees & Ors., observed that…
News Update Insult to Hindutva cannot be termed as Religious Insult; does not attract Section 295A of IPC: Argument before Karnataka HC 15 Dec 2020 Today, Dr Abhinav Chandrachud before Karnataka HC argued that,"Hindutava is an ideology or a political philosophy and cannot be termed as religion and insult to hindutava does not mean religion…
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