News Update Exhaust all available remedies before approaching the high court: Delhi HC 17 Aug 202017 Aug 2020 On 17th August, 2020, the Delhi High Court while hearing a petition filed by NGO Akhil Bhartiya Shanti Pratishtan on the lookout for directions to the CBI and ED to…
News Update Supreme Court declines bail to Unitech promoters Sanjay and Ajay Chandra 17 Aug 2020 The Supreme Court has declined to grant bail to Unitech promoters Sanjay Chandra and Ajay Chandra, because they didn't deposit Rs 750 crore as had been directed by a three-judge…
News Update Karnataka HC directs mandatory disclosing requirements to obtain E-Pass from Seva Sindhu Portal: 17 Aug 2020 A petition had been filed in Karnataka High Court by a petitioner named Advocate M Indira Priyadharshini indicating that the guidelines issued by the Department of Health and Family Welfare…
News Update Can Indian Courts grant Anti-Arbitration Injunctions against foreign seated Arbitration?: Discusses Calcutta HC 16 Aug 2020 On 12th August 2020, the High Court of Calcutta observed that the power to India civil courts to not grant anti-arbitration injunctions against a foreign seated arbitration should be used…
News Update German Citizen believed that he acquired Indian Citizenship by Naturalization; Kerala HC said Ignorance of Law had never been an excuse 16 Aug 2020 A German citizen by the name Roland Moesle is charged under Section 3 read with Section 14 (a) and (c) of Foreigners Act and Section 12(1) (c) of the Passport…
News Update Karnataka HC to hear a plea against conducting COMEDK On Aug 19 14 Aug 2020 A petition filed by Advocate Abdulla Mannan Khan in the Karnataka High Court challenges the decision to conduct COMEDK test by Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka…
News Update Prashant Bhushan guilty of contempt: SC 14 Aug 2020 In a hearing today (14th August), the Supreme Court has found two of Prashant Bhushan's tweets against the Chief Justice and the Supreme Court amounting to "serious contempt of the…
News Update Judicial Independence is a foundation for the Rule of Law and guarantee of fair proceedings: Madras High Court 14 Aug 2020 Justice P. Pugalendhi while hearing the matter related to the acquittal of management officers of some granite firms accused of possessing and carrying business from illegal granite of worth of…
News Update Plea filed in SC against social media accounts dealing with graphic content 13 Aug 2020 Two law students have approached the Supreme Court with concerns of illicit content such as rape videos, revenge porn etc being traded online. The petition prays for the enforcement of the…
News Update Assisting loan to Advocates is violative of 6(2) of the Advocates Act, 1961. 12 Aug 2020 The Government of India has released rupees Twenty-Five Crore out of Hundred Crore fund for the welfare of the advocates who are in need. A special committee was constituted under…
