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Courts overburdened with dishonest litigants dodging debts by resorting to non-existent, mercy jurisdiction of writ courts: Madras High Court

The Madras High Court recently noted that the courts are often burdened with dishonest petitions filed by litigants who try to dodge debts by resorting to non-existent mercy jurisdiction of…

Delhi court-ordered to return the passports of foreign members of Tablighi Jamaat

The Saket Court Complex, New Delhi, ruled in favor of the Tablighi jamaat members and ordered that the actual passports of 31 members of the Tablighi Jamaat acquitted earlier on 20 December 2020,…

Death row convict Shabnam, convicted of murdering seven family members, files second mercy petition

Shabnam has submitted her second mercy petition to Governor of Uttar Pradesh Anandiben Patel and President of India Ramnath. The Mathura Prison which is the only jail in the country…

An environment activist arrested from Karnataka

A, 21-year-old, Disha Ravi climate activist, has been 'picked up' from her house in Karnataka's Bengaluru in Greta Thunberg "toolkit" case. The student-cum-activist, was picked up from her house in…

Justice Pushpa Ganediwala, author of controversial POCSO Act judgments, takes oath as additional Judge of Bombay High Court

Justice Pushpa Ganediwala, the author of a series of controversial lawsuits on the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, took an oath as an additional judge of the…

Supreme court issues notice on petition regarding proper mechanism to check content on Social Networking sites

In a petition seeking a mechanism for monitoring Twitter posts and ads that are seditious, abusive, triggering, and promoting violence among the people in India, the Supreme Court today issued…

Sitting Members of NCLAT moved Supreme Court against the remarks of Five Member Bench.

The petitioners were Justice Karat Kumar Jain, Bavinder Singh and Vijai Pratam, all members of NCLAT. They have all moved the supreme court against "cut paste methodology" that was adopted…

A plea has been filed in the supreme court against Net Services suspension

A Petition was filed before the supreme court regarding immediate revival of the Net Services in Singhu, Ghazipur, and Tikri and requesting directions to media organizations towards circulating "hate news"…

Offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act are Offences against Society*

In State of Gujarat vs. Bhalchandra Laxmishankar Dave [Cr. A. NO.99 OF 2021] (LL 2021 SC 58).Supreme Court observed while setting aside a Gujarat High Court judgment acquitting an accused…

Supreme Court: Wastage of Judicial Time to be compensated by officer responsible for delay

State of U.P. filed SLP after 502 days, the court admitted and for that two orders was made. The court opined that "The Law of limitation prevents even a good…