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The Jharkhand High Court has taken suo motu notice of the death of a Dhanbad judge

The Jharkhand High Court took suo motu notice of the death of a Dhanbad district judge who'd been killed in a road accident while out for a morning walk on…

JNU Attack: Google Says Court Order Necessary For Police to Access Chat Details

Regards with the JNU violence in January 2020, the Delhi Police's crime branch requested information from Google on 33 members of two WhatsApp groups. According to Google, such information can…

WHETHER ARTICLE 227 PETITION MAINTAINABLE AGAINST DV ACT PROCEEDINGS???

13 Jun 202113 Jun 2021

A single bench of Justice held that whether Domestic violence act proceedings is civil or criminal in nature, whether powers under article 227 are available against it. The registry of…

UNHRC has established a panel to investigate alleged crimes committed during the Gaza conflict

On Thursday, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution establishing an independent commission of inquiry to investigate violations of international human rights and humanitarian law in the Gaza…

More than 2,000 female attorneys have petitioned India’s Chief Justice to investigate electoral violence in West Bengal.

Almost 2,100 Indian women lawyers wrote to Chief Justice Shri NV Ramana, urging him to take notice of the post-election violence in West Bengal by forming a Special Investigation Team…

Deep Sidhu, the Red Fort violence accused, has been granted bail by a Delhi court.

Deep Sidhu, was granted bail in a case involving the clashes that erupted after a farmers' tractor march got violent on Republic Day. This is the second case in which…

Supreme Court to hear the case of termination of pregnancy of 14 year old girl on Monday

On Monday, the plea of a 14 year old girl seeking termination of pregnancy will be heard by the Supreme Court. The girl seeks termination of her 26 weeks old…

Denial of Maintenance Allowance to wife would cause a Economic Abuse u/s 3 of DV Act – Tripura HC

In the case of Ramendra Kishore Bhattacharjee v. Smt. Madhurima Bhattacharjee (Crl. Rev. P. No. 36 of 2020), the Tripura high court held that denial of maintenance allowance to the…

SC rejected pleas on Jan.26 violence, said Government will do the needful

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the petitions which seeks SC's intervention to probe the violence committed on R-day by farm law protesters. The Supreme Court further said that the…

Supreme Court says that Criticism of government action cannot be a ground for a penal action

8 Dec 20208 Dec 2020

In the case of journalist Amish Devgan, the court observed that criticism about the government will not be a ground for penal action. The petitions were filed by the journalist…