Hon’ble Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Italian Marine Salvatore Girone to return to his country and stay there till the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea settled a jurisdictional dispute on initiating criminal proceedings against Girone and another Read More …
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High Court stays JAT Job Quota
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday stayed job reservation for Jats and five other communities in the state. Following the High Court order the operation of Schedule – III(Block C) of the new Act, notified by the government on Read More …
HARMONIOUS CONSTRUCTION:M.S.M SHARMA V. DR.SHREE KRISHNA SINHA AND OTHERS
In this case, the petitioner, the Editor of Searchlight, an English daily newspaper had published the portion of proceeding of the Legislative Assembly against the privilege given to the Speaker and the Assembly in Article 194(3) of our Constitution. He Read More …
Marital Rape should be criminalized?
Marital Rape refers to unwanted intercourse by a man with his wife obtained by force, threat of force, or physical violence, or when she is unable to give consent. Marital rape could be by the use of force only, a Read More …
WARNING 'NOT FOR KIDS' IN ALCOHOL BOTTLES AND TOBACCO PACKETS
Along with the warning for health, the tobacco packs and alcohol bottles must now contain warning that giving and selling intoxicants to a child is a punishable offense which may attract a rigorous punishment of 7 years and fine. According Read More …
Passive Euthanasia
Introduction Euthanasia is also known as ‘mercy killing’, it is regarded as putting to end of endless pain and sufferings of the patient by taking the person’s life. The reason the legalization of euthanasia is being argued so that the Read More …
CHILD ABUSE: A MENACE
“I am a 19 year old girl and I am a victim of child sex abuse and child pornography.” So begins the powerful “Statement by Amy,” “I am still discovering all the ways that the abuse and exploitation I suffer Read More …
Enforcement Directorate seeks legal aid on how to get Mallya extradited.
After UK last week has refused to deport businessman Vijay Mallya citing its immigration laws, the Enforcement Directorate is now taking legal opinion on his extradition, specifically on whether at all it would first require filing a charge-sheet against him Read More …
Senior bureaucrat serves legal notice to Sushil Modi.
Senior bureaucrat issued a legal notice to BJP leader Sushil Modi because of making derogatory remarks against him on the issue of prohibition. On the issued notice to Modi, it has been asked by the senior bureaucrat Pathak that weather Read More …
Grofers gets new GC: Verus partner Siddharth Bhavnani joins trendy hyperlocal half-unicorn.
Verus Advocates corporate and VC/PE partner Siddharth Bhavnani has joined start-up Grofers as its first General Counsel (GC). Bhavnani had joined Verus in 2014 from Dua Associates breakaway Tatva Legal. Bhavnani, who had begun his career at Dua Associates after Read More …