Month: January 2018

Source:- outlookindia.com The Supreme Court today modified its earlier order and allowed liquor manufacturers from Bihar to export their old stocks of alcoholic beverages worth over Rs 200 crore outside the state till July 31. A vacation bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and Deepak Gupta passed the order on the application in which the manufacturers

Source:- dnaindia.com LONDON, June 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A Kenyan man’s acquittal for having sex with a 13-year-old because she seemed willing was named on Wednesday as the world’s worst court decision for women’s rights in the past year. It beat off tough competition from Europe – where an Italian woman did not scream

Source:- spicyip.com The Calcutta High Court in two recent decisions has clarified some important aspects of the Designs Act, 2000 (“the Act”). Both cases were appeals to the High Court against the orders of the Controller of Designs, under Section 36 the Act. Case No. 1: Controller Must Pass Reasoned Orders In Krishna Plastic Industries

Source:- hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court will pronounce its judgement on Friday on a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of a provision in the Income Tax Act making Aadhaar mandatory for filing income tax returns and allotment of PAN. A bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan had on May 4 reserved the

Source:- economictimes.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court collegium is likely to meet in the coming days to consider names for appointment of chief justices of high courts. Sources said here today that the collegium — a body of top five judges of the Supreme Court headed by the Chief Justice of India — could meet as

Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The CBSE on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking an immediate stay on the order restraining the publication of results of NEET 2017 for admission to MBBS and BDS courses across the country. The high court on May 24 granted interim stay on the publication of NEET results on a batch

Source:- financialexpress.com The Kerala High Court has held that Christian priests and nuns cannot be denied their rights over personal property merely because they have entered into the religious order and renounced worldly pleasures.  There was absolutely no statutory prohibition for a Christian priest or nun in the matter of intestate or testamentary succession of

Source:- firstpost.com New Delhi: The Delhi State Consumer Redressal Commission has imposed a cost of Rs 30 lakh on a private hospital for its deficient service in a case in which a woman was left with a needle in her uterus after delivery. The Commission, while dismissing the appeal of Shree Jeewan Hospital in north

Source:- oneindia.com An order passed by the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana said that ‘cow was a sacred national wealth’. Justice B Siva Sankara Rao in his March 1 order had even held that slaughter of cows for Bakrid was not an essential religious practice under Islam. An order

Source:- india.com New Delhi, Jun 11 (PTI) Former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s famous remark in 1985 that only 15 paise of every rupee meant for welfare of downtrodden reaches them has found mention in the judgement of the Supreme Court which said this “malaise” can be taken care of by Aadhaar scheme. “A former prime