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Exclusion Of Female Dependents From Consideration For Compassionate Appointment Violative Of Article 14: Chhattisgarh HC

While fully, finally and firmly endorsing gender equality, the Chhattisgarh High Court recently on January 25 in Mamni Pradhan vs South Eastern Coalfields Ltd & Ors in 2022 LiveLaw (Chh) 8 :... Read more »

SUPREME COURT GRANTS INTERIM PROTECTION FROM ARREST TO MAJITHIA IN NDPS CASE

Sr. Advocates Rohatgi, Cheema, Karanjawala & Co appear for Majithia. Read more »

A SAFETY-VALVE FOR DEATH: SECTION 46 OF CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND INADEQUATE ACCOUNTABILITY

The notional aspect of an arrest has time and again been subjected to judicial scrutiny and deliberation because of the very fact that the rights of an individual arrested are often put... Read more »

Further investigation under Section 173(8) CRPC must always relate to incidents of crime for which charge sheet is filed: Karnataka HC

While spelling out the correct legal position, the Karnataka High Court has in a learned, laudable, landmark and latest judgment titled Virendra Khanna vs State of Karnataka in Writ Petition No. 1983... Read more »

Corrective rape: Obstacle to a new dawn

Societies generally go through a series of seismic cultural changes that force individuals to come to terms with their regressive attitudes and biases. One of these changes has been the gradual positive... Read more »

High Court, while exercising revisional jurisdiction under Section 401 CRPC, cannot convert acquittal into conviction: SC

It is quite significant from all angles to note that the Apex Court has as recently as on January 25, 2022 in a brief, brilliant and balanced judgment titled Joseph Stephen vs... Read more »

FROM FANTASY TO REALITY: VIEWING AND SPREADING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY ON SOCIAL MEDIA TO MOLESTING CHILDREN, A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD

The phenomenal growth in the accessibility of child pornography on social media has created a strange opportunity for individuals to have an anonymised, free of cost, and unrestrained approach to a virtually... Read more »

A Kazi can act as mediator to settle disputes but cannot adjudicate them and pass orders like a decree: MP HC

While drawing the red line on what a Kazi can do in his role to settle dispute, the Indore Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court on January 12, 2022 has in a... Read more »

Breaching Promise to Marry Will Not Amount to Offence of Cheating Under IPC: Karnataka HC

In a significant development, we saw how the Karnataka High Court in a learned, laudable, landmark and latest judgment titled Sri Venkatesh and others vs State of Karnataka and Smt Gulzar GP... Read more »

PRISONERS SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE: TIME TO AMEND THE RPA ACT

INTRODUCTION India is considered as the world’s “largest democracy” country. Election is celebrated as a festival in India, which can be evident from the recent incidents where the election rallies were conducted... Read more »
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