Source:- indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Despite the best efforts to speed up disposal of cases, pendency in the high courts may spiral to a monstrous one crore cases by the end of this year from the present 45 lakh cases as 24 HCs are functioning at present with 43% vacancies with only 599 judges as against
Source:- financialexpress.com The threat to civil liberties in India is very serious but there is also a lot of resistance against this threat in the country, according to one of India’s leading human rights lawyers. “In India, the threat to civil liberties is very, very serious. There is a determined effort to silence those who
Source:- indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The law ministry has cleared the files for appointment of five Supreme Court judges and forwarded them to the Prime Minister’s Office which will shortly take the President’s assent before they are notified, likely to be done within the next week. The SC currently has 23 judges. With the fresh appointments
Source:- indiatimes.com NAGPUR: District consumer disputes redressal forum last month issued a non-bailable warrant (NBW), returnable on April 13, against Reliance Communications chairman Anil Ambani ‘in the interest of justice’ in a case filed in January 2013 by Adv Kamal Satuja. In 2014, the forum had asked the company to pay compensation of Rs 25,000
Source:- indianexpress.com MAINTAINING THAT the State does not have unbridled powers to provide promotion in reservation to the backward classes, the Supreme Court on Thursday held that an exercise to determine inadequacy of representation, backwardness and overall efficiency is “a must” before granting promotion to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes employees. A bench of Justices
Source:- hindustantimes.com The Bar Council of India (BCI), which regulates legal education in the country, has largely approved the syllabus and paper pattern of the state’s Common Entrance Test (CET) for law courses, while suggesting a few changes. State’s Directorate of Higher Education (DHE) had sent the syllabus prescribed for the previous year to the
Source:- indiablooms.com According to the reports, a minor girl was allegedly raped by four persons in Lower Assam’s Goalpara district, while another raped minor was found from a roadside area near Jorabat along Assam-Meghalaya border last night. On the other hand, a woman attendant was escaped an attempt to outrage her modesty by a miscreant
Source:- scoopwhoop.com Days after being slapped with a contempt notice from the Supreme Court, Calcutta High Court Justice C S Karnan has written a strongly worded letter to Chief Justice of India stating that his case should be sent to the Parliament. He’s contended that the case is “not sustainable”. He has also played the Dalit
Source:- scroll.in From the day she arrived at her new marital home in Bengaluru, Seeta (name changed to protect her identity) realised that she had walked into a nightmare. Before her wedding in June 2015, her in-laws had promised her family that there would be no dowry involved. But the harassment began barely a few
Source:- india.com New Delhi, A 59-year-old man, who was accused of raping a woman in 1999 on the pretext of marrying her, has been discharged by a Delhi court which said there was an unexplained delay of nearly eight years in lodging an FIR. The court said neither the 47-year-old woman raised any alarm, nor
