Month: January 2018

Recently, a Supreme Court bench set aside an eight-page Himachal Pradesh High Court judgment because it could not “comprehend the contents”. The case was about a tenant-landlord dispute. Here’s an extract: “However, the learned counsel…cannot derive the fullest succour from the aforesaid acquiescence… given its sinew suffering partial dissipation from an imminent display occurring in

Source – india.com Chandigarh, May 16 (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal and Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Tuesday expressed anguish over the Italian Supreme Court upholding a ban on wearing of ‘kirpan’ and plan to raise the issue at appropriate platforms to ensure “justice” to Sikhs settled in Italy. In a statement here on Tuesday,

Source – hindustantimes.com There is no guaranteed right to privacy enshrined in the Indian constitution. However, in many judgements over several years, several legal luminaries have interpreted Article 21 – the right to life and liberty as giving rise to a somewhat limited right to privacy. There are a number of restrictions to a right to

Source – news18.com Patna: The Patna High Court on Wednesday removed two of the seven sets of commitments (Saat Nischay) from the purview of the state government appointed special body and restored rights of local bodies to implement these schemes. Saath Nischay is similar to a common minimum program which was agreed upon between Janata Dal (United),

Source – firstpost.com What is marriage? What is divorce? These two questions are at the heart of the debate the country is having over triple talaq. The matter is in front of the Supreme Court, which will decide if this practice is or is not in line with fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution. But there

Source – ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  The lawyers representing Calcutta High Court judge C S Karnan today claimed that a representation has been made to the president seeking suspension of the Supreme Court order sentencing him to six months imprisonment for contempt of court.However, the president’s office said, “It was not aware of any such representation.” The lawyers said

Source – edition.cnn.com New Delhi (CNN)India’s Supreme Court decided Thursday to defer decision on the controversial Islamic divorce practice known as “triple talaq.” The practice, that stretches back over a thousand years, allows a husband to divorce his wife by simply saying the Arabic word for divorce, talaq, three times. India’s Supreme Court has convened

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Heated exchanges were witnessed between Union Minister Arun Jaitley and senior advocate Ram Jethmalani in the Delhi High Court on Wednesday during the former’s cross-examination in a defamation case against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The recording of Jaitley’s statement in a civil defamation suit of Rs 10 crore filed by

Source – indiatoday.intoday.in After India scored a victory over Pakistan in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called up External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj where he lauded veteran lawyer Harish Salve’s effort in the International Court of Justice. Salve, was also part of the team that successfully argued at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against

Source – huffingtonpost.in LUCKNOW — The Allahabad High Court on Thursday directed the Uttar Pradesh government not to interfere in the functioning of a vocational training centre run by the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust in Amethi.This may be seen as a setback to Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani, who had alleged that the land in Jais