Deciding Authority: The Supreme Court of India Name of the Judges: R.C.Lahoti, S.V.Patil Date of Judgement: 03/01/2000 Facts : Elections for the legislative seat of No.216, Sabang Legislative Assembly Constituency in the district of Midnapore, West Bengal were held in Read More …
Case Brief: State of Punjab v. Tehal Singh and ors.
Deciding Authority: The Supreme Court of India Name of the Judges: V.N. KHARE & B.N. AGRAWAL Date of Judgement: 07/01/2002 Facts of the Case: There is a village called Wazidpur in Block Ghal Khurd in the district of Firozepur, Punjab. Read More …
CASE BRIEF: Union of India v. Elphinstone Spinning & Weaving Co. Ltd. & Ors. (Appeal (civil) 2995-2997 of 1984)
Case Brief Union of India v. Elphinstone Spinning & Weaving Co. Ltd. & Ors. Deciding Authority Supreme Court Name of the Judges G.B. Pattanaik, S.Rajendra Babu , D.P.Mohapatra, Doraiswamy Raju, S.V.Patil Date of Judgment 1 January 2001 Facts of the Read More …
Case Brief: State of Rajasthan vs. Jaggu Ram; January 4,2008
Briefly, the facts of the case are: The facts necessary for deciding the appeal are as under: On 30th March, 1993 one Suresh Khateek informed Atma Ram (PW-1) that his daughter Shanti @ Gokul had died at her in-laws place. Read More …
Adhrits Foundations Online Internship Recruitment Programme; Apply by August 14
Adhrit Consociate, the official blog of Adhrit Foundation (www.adhrit.in) is hereby inviting applications for its Online Internship cum Recruitment Programme (August-September) from undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students interested in writing about various issues. Focused Areas: Education Law Healthcare Entrepreneurship Youth Empowerment Eligibility: Read More …
CCTV cameras should be installed in all prisons across the country within one year, rules SC in DK Basu Version 2.0
Allowing a PIL filed by one Dilip K Basu seeking prison reforms and filling of the vacancies of the state human rights commission, the Supreme Court on Friday directed the Union government and all the states to install CCTV cameras in all the prisons across the country and Read More …
Love affairs, impotency among reasons behind farmer suicides, Union agriculture minister says
Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh on Friday sparked off a controversy by prominently listing impotency, barrenness, love affairs and dowry disputes as reasons for farmers’ suicides in the country. Though Singh’s reply was based on statistics compiled by National Read More …
Woman living with a married man for 15 years: Bombay HC finds it is not a ‘live-in” and denies relief under Domestic Violence Act
The Bombay High Court has denied the relief under Protection of Women from Domestic Violence (DV) Act to a woman who was living with a married man for 15 years. The Court was hearing a revision application against an order Read More …
Govt to Petition to allow Audio Video Recording of Court Proceedings
Government will press for introduction of audio-video recording of court proceedings before a Supreme Court panel, maintaining that it enhances transparency and discourages witnesses from retracting statements. It will urge the e-Committee of the apex court to allow audio-video recordings Read More …
Call for Papers: IGNOU's Seminar on Ethnicity and Development in South Asia [Jan 21-22]; Submit by Sept 10
Indira Gandhi National Open University [IGNOU] invites papers for its conference based on the theme, “Ethnicity and Development in South Asia: Issues and Challenges” to be held from the 21st to the 22nd of January 2016. The objectives of this Read More …