Month: July 2019

Source:thehindu.com As the Supreme Court is set to hear a plea related to the resignation of some MLAs of the coalition parties, a section of legal experts feel that there is a need for the apex court to intervene and plug a loophole in the law — of the absence of a specific time frame

Source:thewire.in I am a Bhopal-based journalist with impeccable secular credentials and with a deep sense of moral obligation I have just filed an election petition in the Madhya Pradesh high court challenging Pragya Singh Thakur’s election from the Bhopal parliamentary seat.   To me, her victory is a huge national shame. No country in the world,

Source:npr.org On the U.S. Supreme Court, where nine justices often disagree but try to meld their views into majority decisions, one justice stands out. Clarence Thomas, the longest-serving member of the current court — and its only African American — has views that perhaps can be described only as unique. Some court watchers, however, use

Source:indianexpress.com The Bombay High Court in the Shakti Mills case upheld the constitutionality of Section 376E of the IPC that provides for life imprisonment till the end of natural life or death sentence for the repeat offence of rape. A legacy of the criminal amendments after the 2012 Delhi gang rape, the provision brings into

Source: financialexpress.com Recently, Ranjan Gogoi, the Chief Justice of India, made three requests to the Prime Minister to help clear the backlog of cases: Expand the Supreme Court (SC) Bench; raise the retirement age of high court judges from 62 to 65 years; and making tenure appointments of high court and SC judges under the

Source: ndtv.com New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has entrusted an eight-member sub-committee with the task of drafting a central law to check violence against doctors and other medical professionals, a long-standing demand of the medical fraternity. The sub-committee has been directed to draft the law by July 17, officials said. The panel comprises officials from

Sources: theprint.in A bench of two Supreme Court judges held in a recent judgment that “a candidate who has availed of an age relaxation in a selection process as a result of belonging to a reserved category, thereafter, cannot seek to be accommodated in/or migrated to the general category seat.” This means that such reserved category candidates

Delhi High Court directed IPAB to hear and dispose of urgent matters Sources: lexology.com The Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB)was formed in 2003 under the provisions of the Trademarks Act, 1999 to expedite the disposal of trademark appeals and rectification/cancellation cases by an expert tribunal. Subsequently, the jurisdiction of IPAB was extended to the appeals

Sources: citizenmatters.in Dehradun’s biggest government-run medical college and hospital is the Government Doon Medical College Hospital (GDMCH). It caters to a population of over 10 lakh apart from patients referred from hilly areas. But one can deduce the state of the most basic amenities in the GDMCH when one hears that a 27-year-old pregnant woman

Sources: scroll.in The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the Bombay High Court’s decision to uphold reservations for the Maratha community in educational institutions and jobs in public services in Maharashtra, LiveLaw reported. Non-governmental organisation Youth For Equality had filed a petition against the High Court’s verdict. However, a bench of Chief Justice of