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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

Source – freepressjournal.in Mumbai: The Bombay High Court recently held that children from second marriages can claim share in properties of their parents, but only after the death of their parents and not during their lifetime. A single-judge bench of Justice Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi pronounced the ruling last month while dealing with a suit filed by a man’s

Source – livelaw.in The Supreme Court collegium of five senior Judges, which met on Friday, agreed “in principle”  that it would reiterate its previous recommendation – returned by the Centre for reconsideration – on appointing the chief justice of the Uttarakhand high court, Justice K.M.Joseph, as a judge of the apex court. But it has decided

Source – newindianexpress.com KOCHI: A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Friday dismissed the appeal filed by the Kerala Private Hospitals Association (KPHA) challenging the order of single judge declining to stay the government order on the revision of minimum wages of nurses. While declining the plea to stay the notification fixing the minimum

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: In a significant direction, the Supreme Court on Friday directed the heads of all high courts to set up anti-sexual harassment committees in all courts across the country within two months in accordance with a 2013 law. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also asked the registrars general of the high courts to file a

Source  –  indiatimes.com RANCHI: The Jharkhand high court on Friday granted a provisional bail of six weeks to RJD president Lalu Prasad Yadav on medical grounds. He got the bail for treatment of his illnesses related to the heart and kidneys at specialised medical centres in the country.  “The provisional bail will be effective from the time when Lalu is released,” said

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court upheld a CBSE notification on Friday fixing an age cap of 25 and 30 years for general and reserved categories, respectively, to apply for National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET)-UG, a pre-qualification for MBBS. The high court dismissed petitions challenging the CBSE notification that laid down the upper age limit even as it struck down a