Source – firstpost.com The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has appointed an expert group headed by former Supreme Court judge BN Srikrishna to draft a data protection law, Livemint has reported. This comes in the backdrop of the apex court hearing arguments in a batch of cases which will determine whether there is a fundamental right to privacy. The
Source – timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday raised a toast to two young legal guns, who opposed giving constitutional status to right to privacy through lucid articulation of facts, case laws and illuminating deductions based on judgments of the US Supreme Court. Two weeks ago, the SC started a debate on whether privacy is
Source – firstpost.com The judiciary isn’t quite helping the cause of women’s rights in India. On 31 July, the Delhi High Court, while upholding the acquittal of a government employee in a rape case, remarked that “women use law as weapon for vengeance and personal vendetta and tend to convert consensual physical relations as an incident of
Source – indianexpress.com The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Neera Yadav and IAS officer Rajiv Kumar in connection with the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (NOIDA) land allotment case. The bench of Justices Kurian Joseph and R Banumathi, however, reduced their sentence from 3 to 2 years. Yadav
Source – mining-technology.com The Supreme Court of India has ordered mining firms operating in the state of Odisha without environmental approval to pay a 100% fine on the price of large quantities of unlawfully extracted iron ore and manganese ores. The firms have been directed to pay the penalty to the state for mining illegally from
Source – india.com The Gujarat High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by some students challenging a rule which made the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) compulsory for the students seeking admission to Ayurveda and homoeopathy courses. The petition sought changes in the Gujarat Professional Medical Educational Courses (Regulation of Admission) Rules, 2017. The rules made a
Source – thehansindia.com Hyderabad: The High Court at Hyderabad directed the Telangana State government to file counter affidavit in the case filed by DSC-1998 candidates seeking CBI investigation into alleged fraudulent appointments made by Warangal District Selection Committee (WDSC) in teachers’ recruitment. Justice A Rajashekar Reddy gave this direction on Thursday while hearing a Writ petition filed
Source – indianexpress.com The Supreme Court has constituted a three-judge bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra to hear a batch of petitions challenging the Allahabad High Court verdict in the Ayodhya land dispute case from August 11. The bench, whose other members are justices Ashok Bhushan and Abdul Nazeer, would adjudicate the dispute over ownership
Source – timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have led celebrations on International Yoga Day, but his government has told the Supreme Court that yoga education cannot be an enforceable fundamental right under the law governing children’s right to free and compulsory education.Petitioner-advocate J C Seth had on March 8, 2011 persuaded the SC to seek response from the Centre on
Source – indianexpress.com Questioning the locus standi of the Sunni Waqf Board in the Ayodhya dispute, the Shia Central Waqf Board of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it will be better to “avoid” the “closeness” of mandir and masjid and suggested that the latter be built at a “reasonable distance from
