Source – indianexpress.com The Delhi High Court has refused to grant any relaxation in attendance to a second-year LLB student of Delhi University so she can appear in the semester exam. The student couldn’t attend classes as she was pregnant. The court ruled that relief cannot be granted due to the Rules of Legal Education
Source – bloombergquint.com In a dramatic turn of events, the Supreme Court of India, at a middle-of-the-night hearing, refused to stop the Bharatiya Janata Party from taking oath on Thursday morning as the new government in Karnataka. Though it did direct the Attorney General of India, KK Venugopal, to produce the letter written by BJP Karnataka
Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Toughening its stand against a review of its ruling diluting the arrest clause in the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would not allow arrest of an innocent merely on a complaint even if Parliament made a law. “Right to life and liberty
Source – dnaindia.com Rajasthan High Court has ordered the Secondary Education Board to submit the report in the paper leak episode of the REET Examination-2017 Level 2 on May 22, if any investigation is done in the case. The single bench of Justice VS Siradhana gave this order on the petition filed by Kamlesh Kumar Meena.
Source – dnaindia.com The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Delhi High Court to decide by July end the appeal challenging a trial court order discharging several cricketers, including S Sreesanth, in the sensational IPL spot-fixing case. Sreesanth, who has been awarded life ban by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), has filed
Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: In a big relief to cricketer-turned-politician and Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, the Supreme Court on Tuesday let him off with a fine of Rs 1,000 in a 1998 road rage case in which one person died, saying there was no evidence to prove that the death was caused by the single blow he
Source – indianexpress.com The Delhi High Court Tuesday ordered a CBI enquiry against prison officials who allegedly assaulted several inmates at Tihar Jail in November last year, saying it “cannot condone custodial violence”. “We are not going to condone custodial violence. Not in this city. Accused or convicts — after all, they are human beings
Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Days after hotelier Keshav Suri, who runs the Lalit group of hotels, approached the Supreme Court for decriminalising gay sex, a batch of 20 current and former students of Indian Institutes of Technology has filed a petition in court saying criminalisation of sexual orientation resulted in a sense of shame, loss of self-esteem and
Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday will deliver its verdict on appeal filed by cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu and his friend challenging their conviction and three-year jail term awarded by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in a 1988 road rage case in which one person died. A bench of Justices J Chelameswar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul will also deliver
Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Centre and the J&K government on Monday advocated a cautious approach to dissuade the Supreme Court from passing any interim order on petitions challenging provisions of the Indian and Jammu & Kashmir Constitutions which “discriminated” against Indians vis-a-vis state subjects. Appearing for the petitioners, senior advocate Ranjit Kumar said Article 35A of the Indian Constitution and
