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Emergency to be held unconstitutional, petition filed

Background A plea has been filed by a 94-year-old, Veera Sarin, woman seeking a declaration that the proclamation of the Emergency in 1975 was wholly unconstitutional. Her husband had a…

Karnataka High Court Initiates Suo-Motu Petition to Ensure Elections Are Held to Municipal Bodies

A division bench of the Karnataka High Court comprising Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice S Vishwajith Shetty on Monday directed the registry to initiate a suo-motu writ petition to…

Supreme Court Refuses to Interfere With Justice Dharmadhikari Committee Report

In the dispute relating to distribution of personnel between the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporations, the supreme bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and MR Shah, has held that…

Permission to cut trees on Dumna Road should be re-examined, says Madhya Pradesh HC

Background Environmentalist Nikita Khamparia, a resident of Ganganagar Colony, Jabalpur, filed a PIL stating that the four-lane road from Rani Durgavati University to Dumna Airport is being constructed. Trees are…

Supreme Court on Power of Universities to go above and beyond the Regulations of AICTE

A new course in Artificial Intelligence was proposed to be introduced in APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University who had received approval from AICTE.The university denied the permission for the new…

FSSAI directed by CCPA to look into the matter of honey adulteration, notice sent to 6 firms for false Covid-19 protection claims.

Background (CSE) released a report last week claiming that several major Indian brands are adulterating honey with sugar syrup. Outcome After this incident, the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has…

Honourable Supreme Court issues Notice on SLPs against Kerala High Court Judgement on Minimum Wage Rules

The Supreme Court on Friday issued notices on two special leave petitions filed against a judgment of the Kerala High Court dealing with amendments brought to the Kerala Minimum Wages…

Transfer of Case of Tablighi Jamaat Leader to NIA: Delhi HC Dismisses Plea

The Division Bench of the Delhi High Court comprising Justices Siddharth Mridul and Talwant Singh, dismissed a plea seeking the transfer of investigation of a case against Tablighi Jamaat leader…

Delhi High Court seeks stand of Centre & RBI on a PIL for regulating techfin firms like FB, Google, Amazon

Background- The petition filed by an economist, Ms.Resmi P Bhaskaran, techfin entities are technology, telecommunications or e-commerce companies which have entered the financial sector to provide financial services and need…

Centre’s response sought on de-facto imposition of Aarogya Setu: Bombay HC

A plea has been filed by Tanya Mahajan in the Bombay High Court challenging the mandatory imposition of the Aarogya Setu App in the Regional Passport Office, Mumbai. The petitioner…