Source – thehindu.com The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that minor survivors of rape or sexual assault will get compensation on par with women victims. The apex court extended the National Legal Services Authority’s (NALSA) compensation scheme for women rape and sexual assault survivors to minor children. A three-judge Bench led by Justice Madan B. Lokur directed that
Source – reuters.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, embraced judicial independence on Wednesday but sidestepped Senate Democrats’ questions on whether a president can pardon himself or fire a prosecutor investigating him. Kavanaugh faced a grueling session of more than 12 hours of questioning before a Senate panel that was
Source – indianexpress.com “Child rape is inexcusable” and “no leniency or mercy can be shown” to one who commits such a crime, the Delhi High Court said on Tuesday while declining to quash the ordinance that allows courts to award death penalty to those convicted of raping girls aged below 12. “Offence of rape is serious
Source – indianexpress.com The CBI on Wednesday raided 31 locations across Chennai, Mumbai and Bangalore, including the premises of Tamil Nadu Health Minister C Vijaybhaskar, Tamil Nadu DGP TK Rajendran, Tamil Nadu DG (Fire and Rescue) S George, former minister BV Ramana and several officials of the Central excise department, food safety department and health department
Source – dnaindia.com The Income Tax Act, 1961 (‘the Act’) empowers the tax officer to re-open and re-assess a taxpayer’s case, where an order has been passed after conducting scrutiny proceedings. Technically termed as ‘reassessment’ under the Act, if the tax officer has reasons to believe that any income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment for
There was a big seminar on legal education and the future of national law schools the other day with constitutional heavyweights in attendance. Five-year law, it was said, has captured the national imagination. In 1991, when I was leaving the safe ecosystem of Kolkata (then Calcutta) for law school in Karnataka, I had to grapple
Source – business-standard.com Member of SC/ST community of a state cannot claim quota benefits in govt job in another state unless his/her caste is notified there, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday. The apex court also said that the benefits of quota for SC/ST would stand confined to geographical territory of a state or union terrritory. The court,
Source – hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court on Thursday said the Centre was “underprepared” in furnishing details of MPs and MLAs who have criminal cases against them and expressed displeasure over not providing sufficient data, despite a directive last year, to expedite such cases by setting up special courts. “The union of India is unprepared. We express
Source – indianexpress.com THE SUPREME Court said on Tuesday that voters have a right to know the antecedents of candidates and the Election Commission could be asked to direct political parties to ensure that those facing criminal charges do not contest on their tickets. The court reserved its judgment on a batch of petitions seeking measures
Source – indiatimes.com The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to Indian government and messaging service provider WhatsApp after a plea sought direction to restrain the app from proceeding with its payments systems unless it fully complies with RBI’s provisions. A bench of Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman and Justice Indu Malhotra sought response from WhatsApp, Law and Justice Ministry, Finance Ministry and
