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The women should demand 50% reservation in judiciary as a right not as a charity : CJI Ramana

27 Sep 202127 Sep 2021

While addressing the next CJI, women advocates and judges of Supreme Court, CJI NV Ramana said that the women of the whole world should be unite because they have nothing…

NEED CLARITY ON SC VERDICT!!!

In the case of Siddaraju Vs State of Karnataka A bench was hearing the application of the centre which seeks clarifications on Supreme Court verdict that related to the right…

Orissa HC appointed a committee to ascertain the living conditions of leprosy patients in the state

22 Jul 202122 Jul 2021

For the ascertainment of the living conditions and medical facilities available to the leprosy patients living in the colonies in the state, the Orissa High Court formed a committee consisting…

Amendment of Advocates Act, 1961 and reservation for female advocates proposed due to lack of representation

16 Jul 202116 Jul 2021

In a recent development, a group of 300 female lawyers from Mumbai, Maharashtra have sought for reservation of female advocates in the Bar Council of India as well as the…

Different teaching units in a college can’t be treated as one unit for the purpose of reservation: Kerala HC

In the case of Dr G Radhakrishnan Pillai V. State of Kerala and the University of Kerala, the court while quashing the notification of the University of Kerala which covers…

MARATHA RESERVATION CASE:

The hearing with regards to Maharashtra State Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) Act is on its 7th day today. The constitutional validity of this Act has been…

Maratha Quota case: SC states, Indra Sawhney case will be reconsidered if required

While addressing the Maratha reservation case challenging the Bombay High Court order upholding quotas for Marathas in education and employment under the Maharashtra Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Act, the…

Vikas kishanrao v. State of Maharashtra (W.P. Civil No. 980 of 2019)

Section 12(2)(c) of Maharashtra zilla Parishads and Panchayat Samitis Act, 1961,states that 27% reservation is for OBCs. The court stated:As regards the State legislation providing for reservation of seats …

Response sought from Haryana, Tamil Nadu and Chattisgarh in a plea challenging quota acts: Supreme Court

There are three petitions before the Supreme Court challenging the quota acts of the State Government and the common cause of all the three petitions is that the State reservation/quota…

SC upheld Bombay HC order which denied student admission to medical course as it was against reservation policy of college

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…