Souce:- indianexpress.com Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday said his state attracts a lot of international tourists and hence some relaxation is needed with regard to Supreme Court order banning liquor along highways. “India is a vast country…Goa is a tourist state, we need some relaxations. But I am not going to denotify highways,”
Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Preferring social welfare to legal technicality, the Supreme Court has held that even if a woman is disentitled to maintenance from her husband during the period of separation after deserting him, she will be entitled to it after divorce if she is unable to sustain herself. The judiciary has resorted to
Source:- indianexpress.com The Supreme Court on Friday directed various high courts to initiate steps for appointing independent public prosecutors for POCSO courts meant for trial of sexual offence cases against children. Terming the issue as “extremely important and significant”, a bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar also directed the Delhi High Court to
Source:- economictimes.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today slapped a cost of Rs 5 lakh on the Haryana government for filing an appeal against a high court order after more than five years saying it is “destroying” the judicial system by “blatant misuse” of the process. “You (Haryana government) are destroying the judicial system. The
Source:- asianage.com New Delhi: A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court will take up for hearing on April 19 a petition for protection of the rights of displaced people from minority communities in Bangladesh, who were compelled to take shelter in India. A three-judge Bench of Chief Justice J.S. Khehar and Justices D.Y. Chandrachud
Source:- hindustantimes.com Private medical and dental colleges from Maharashtra have submitted a plea in the Supreme Court, challenging the Medical Council of India’s (MCI) decision to conduct admission to all medical and dental colleges, including private and deemed, through the state-led centralised admission process (CAP). According to a notification from MCI, issued on March 11,
Source – huffingtonpost.in NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a PIL seeking cancellation of the Indus Water Treaty between India and Pakistan while observing that it has found no merit in the plea. The plea has been filed by a Delhi-based lawyer ML Sharma, who has said that the treaty is unconstitutional.
Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: If you are still left with scrapped Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes, having failed to deposit them in banks by the December 30 deadline, you could hold on to them till July-end. The Supreme Court said on Tuesday it would decide in July whether the government should be asked
Source – hindustantimes.com Despite India’s strong message to Pakistan over the death sentence to former Indian navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav on espionage charges, the course of action ahead for the condemned prisoner remains arduous. Jadhav has legal resources at his disposal. He can move the Supreme Court of Pakistan, appealing against the military court which
The Supreme Court today said that power distribution firms like Adani Power Ltd and Tata Power Ltd cannot charge “compensatory tariff” from consumers and set aside the appellate tribunal’s judgement in this regard. Tata Power’s wholly owned subsidiary Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd and Adani Power had originally moved the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) seeking
