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Source: indiatoday.in The Delhi High Court on Wednesday posted for July 8 a plea seeking direction to the Lok Sabha Speaker to appoint a Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, saying there was no urgency in the matter. A vacation bench was hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by advocates Manmohan Singh and

Source: businesstoday.in On June 24, Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Minister of Law & Justice, Electronics & Information Technology introduced The Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019. Amidst protests by some Opposition leaders, he sought to provide a brief explanation. “Supreme Court has elaborately dealt with the Aadhaar Act and has held that Aadhaar is

Source: thewire.in Last week, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking him to increase the Supreme Court’s current sanctioned strength of 31 judges, ostensibly to tackle the continuing rise in pendency of cases. The court, which began with a sanctioned strength of eight judges, saw the number of judges

Source: deccanchronicle.com Chennai: The Madras high court has dismissed a batch of petitions, which challenged the erection of high tension electricity towers through agricultural lands for the Rs 24,000 crore project to transmit power from Chhattisgarh to Tamil Nadu. Dismissing the petitions from Vai.Palanisamy and 10 others, Justice G.Jayachandran said as far as the factual

Source: newindianexpress.com CUTTACK: The Odisha High Court has ruled that grant of bail is not a mechanical act and a Judge is not bound to grant bail to an accused on grounds of parity. “There is no absolute hidebound rule that it must necessarily be granted to the co-accused, where another co-accused has been granted

Source: dnaindia.com The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday expressed its unhappiness on the state government for its failure to take steps to abolish the inhumane practice of manual scavenging. The government was supposed to file a detailed reply on Wednesday clarifying whether manual scavenging is still prevalent in the state, or not, and what actions

Source: thenewsminute.com Tension prevailed in Andhra Pradesh’s capital Amaravati as authorities from the state government on Tuesday night began demolition of a building adjacent to former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s rented residence on the banks of the Krishna river. As visuals of earth movers demolishing the Praja Vedika were being shared on social media,

Source: counterview.net Two top rights groups with presence in several countries, including India, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have said that the “criminal case” against the Lawyers Collective, a Delhi-based high profile NGO with some of the most well-known Supreme Court advocates as its office bearers, is the latest example of how the foreign

Source: timesnownews.com New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has dismissed a plea seeking re-evaluation of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) 2019 over four questions which allegedly had more than one correct answer. Justice Jayant Nath said the petitioners have prima facie failed to show any glaring mistake which would compel the court to pass interim

Source: dnaindia.com The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday directed the Bar Council of India (BCI) and Bar Council of Gujarat (BCG) to come up with a mechanism for ascertaining the competency of lawyers in conducting cases before the court. The direction came from the division bench of Acting Chief Justice AS Dave and Justice Biren