Month: January 2018

Source – indiatoday.intoday.in Mukesh Kumar was aged 19 when he was sent to Malaysia in September 2011 by his father to work in a shipping company. His father Kheta Ram did not know that he was seeing his son for the last time. Three months later, he received the news of his son’s mysterious disappearance.

Source – financialexpress.com Tax-payers’ money is “going down the drain” as the authorities are squandering it by delaying development projects, the Delhi High Court has said, terming it as “a very sorry state of affairs”. The sharp observations came when a high court bench was informed that the BJP-run Municipal Corporation of Delhi was yet to complete the construction

Source – financialexpress.com The Supreme Court will today continue its hearing on the Triple Talaq case.Attorney General (AG) Mukul Rohatgi would argue the matter today. The Centre, earlier on May 11, told the apex court that it opposes the triple talaq practice and wants to fight for women equality and gender justice.However, All India Muslim Personal

Source – timesofoman.com New Delhi: A five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court will from Monday start examining the privacy policy of instant messaging service WhatsApp, which has come under challenge on the ground that it allegedly infringed on the fundamental rights.The crucial matter has been listed before a second constitution bench during the summer vacation.

Source – indiatoday The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will hold public hearings in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case today. India and Pakistan will present their cases to the ICJ over the contentious Kulbhushan Jadhav issue. The ICJ had on May 9 stayed the death sentence to the alleged Indian spy. The ICJ, the United Nations’ principal

Source – financialexpress.com With the Supreme Court refusing to fast-track it and pushing for out-of-court negotiations, it is evident no legal verdict can resolve the vexed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute.Way back in 1993, the apex court had indicated that any court verdict is fraught with risks. Although much water has flown down the Sayaru since then,

Source – hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court questioned WhatsApp over its change in privacy policy after Facebook acquired it in 2016. As per the new policy the instant message service can share data with the social networking platform. A five-judge bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra raised the query while it was hearing petitions challenging WhatsApp’s privacy

Source – hindustantimes The Delhi High Court on Monday said marital rape was a “serious issue” which had notoriously become a “part of the culture”. A division bench of acting chief justice Gita Mittal and justice C Hari Shankar, hearing a PIL against the penal code provision that protects husbands from being tried for the rape

Source – hindustantimes.com The Delhi High Court on Tuesday transferred the case of missing student Najeeb Ahmad to the CBI after the crime branch of Delhi Police failed to trace the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student. Najeeb, 27, a first year MSc student, had gone missing from the JNU hostel on the night of October 14-15

Source – financialexpress.com A city court has ruled that the marriage performed by a Muslim woman during the ‘iddat’ (waiting) period is not invalid, even as the issue of triple talaq is being debated in the Supreme Court. Under the Islamic law, a divorced woman has to wait during the ‘iddat’ period for about three months