Month: January 2018

Source:- ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  Women in India often sacrifice their love and relationships to accept their parents’ decision, said the Supreme Court. The top court noted this in a judgement which set aside the conviction and life sentence of a man who had survived a pact with a woman to commit suicide immediately after secretly

Source:- legallyindia.com A lawyer consulting full time with a public sector undertaking (PSU), who had been unsuccessfully trying to get enrolled with the Gujarat bar council (BCG) since 2012, is not allowed to do so and therefore practically not an advocate, ruled the Gujarat high court according to the Times of India. The long-running saga of

Source:- financialexpress.com President Pranab Mukherjee has rejected the mercy petition of Purushottam Borate and Pradeep Kokade convicted in the 2007 Jyotikumari murder and rape case. The two men are convicted of abducting, raping and murdering BPO employee Jyotikumari in Pune in 2007. As per a statement issued by the President’s Secretariat, the mercy plea was

Source:- india.com New Delhi, Jun 18 (PTI) A person who has been terminated from service cannot be called an employee and is not entitled to retain the staff quarters provided by the employer, a Delhi court has said. The court’s observation came while upholding a man’s eviction from staff quarters of Institute of Human Behaviour

Source:- thehindu.com The Supreme Court on Monday granted Sahara chief Subrata Roy 10 more working days to deposit ₹709.82 crore out of the promised ₹1,500 crore and extended its interim order granting him bail till July 5. A Bench, comprising Justices Dipak Misra and Ranjan Gogoi, considered the submissions of senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing

Source:- hindustantimes.com Tamil Nadu has closed over 3,000 shops located on the State Highways selling liquor following the Supreme Court order,the state assembly was informed today. As per the orders of the Supreme Court, 3,321 Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) liquor retail vending shops have been closed as of April 1, 2017, minister for

Source:- indiatoday.intoday.in Punjab Cabinet today gave its nod to a proposal to amend the Section 26-A of the Punjab Excise Act, 1914, for fixing the location of liquor vends on national and state highways. The proposal will thus exclude hotels, restaurants and clubs from the Supreme Court’s restriction on serving liquor within 500 m of

Source:- telegraphindia.com Bombay High Court today went into a thorny question that tends to divide parents, children and educationists: should mathematics be compulsory in secondary school? It asked school boards to consider making the subject optional for Class X students as a relief for those planning to later pursue the arts or vocational courses that

Source:- firstpost.com Mumbai: Gangster Abu Salem, convicted for his role in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, has moved a European Union court in a bid to have himself sent back to Portugal from where he was extradited to India to face the trial. Salem moved the European Union court months before his conviction in the

Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com VADODARA: Mother of a 13-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped by her school van driver for six months, alleged on Monday that she and her family was being threatened by an unidentified person and have also been offered money to withdraw the case. The girl’s mother also alleged that the police was not