Lack of profit or loss due to misconduct by employee is not a valid defence
Supreme Court: Explaining the scope misconduct by employees, the bench of RK Agrawal and AM Sapre, JJ said that there is no
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NUJS students, who obtained stay against demolition of Subhas Sarovar slums, assaulted
In an unfortunate incident that took place last night, six NUJS students were groped and brutally assaulted by a mob of goons
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Whatsapp and Facebook to file affidavit assuring that consumer data is not being transferred to third party
Supreme Court: In the light of the data privacy concerns raised before the Court in the matter relating to Whatsapp data sharing
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Criminalising marital rape of minors: Supreme Court reserves verdict
Supreme Court: The bench of Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta, JJ reserved the judgment in the issue relating to criminalising of
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SC allows a 13-year-old rape survivor to terminate her 32-week-old pregnancy
Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of Dipak Misra, CJ and Amitava Roy and AM Khanwilkar, JJ allowed a 13-year-old rape survivor to terminate
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Cow Vigilantism: SC directs all States to appoint nodal officer to prevent further incidents
Supreme Court: The The 3-judge bench of Dipak Misra, CJ and Amitava Roy and AM Khanwilkar, JJ directed all the States to
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CVC Appointment Matter: SC will only examine ‘impeccable integrity’ criteria & not ‘political favouritism’
Supreme Court: Hearing the petition challenging the appointment of the incumbent CVC, K V Chaudhary, and vigilance commissioner (VC) T M Bhasin
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Deportation of Rohingya Muslim to Mayanmar: Supreme Court seeks Centre’s response
Supreme Court: After 2 Rohingya Muslim refugees urged the Supreme Court to direct the Central government not to deport them to Myanmar,
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Bofors Scam: SC to hear the 12-year-old plea from October 30
Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of Dipak Misra, CJ and AM Khanwilkar and Dr DY Chandrachud, JJ listed the appeal by BJP
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Encounter Killings: Larger bench to hear NHRC’s plea seeking direction for mandatory information by all States
Supreme Court: In the matter where the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had sought direction to all states for mandatorily giving information to
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1984 Anti-Sikh riots: Former SC Judges Justice J M Panchal and Justice K S P Radhakrishnan to examine the SIT report
Supreme Court: The bench of Dipak Misra, CJ, Amitava Roy and AM Khanwilkar, JJ named Justice J M Panchal and Justice K S
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Can the increase of age of consent to 18 years by Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 be applied to Child Marriages?: SC to decide
Supreme Court: Hearing the plea questioning the validity of a provision permitting a man to have physical relationship with his wife, even
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Moratorium provisions under Maharashtra Relief Undertakings (Special Provisions Act), 1958 repugnant to Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code of 2016
Supreme Court: Dealing with the question relating to applicability of the Maharashtra Relief Undertakings (Special Provisions Act), 1958 vis-a-vis the Insolvency and
Continue readingHaryana Judicial Services Exam Paper leak: Paper allegedly leaked by toppers; 3-judge bench to hear the matter
Punjab and Haryana High Court: In the matter where 2 candidates who had topped the Haryana Civil Services (Judicial) examination in General
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Landlord does not have to affirmatively prove the payment of rent in case of sub-letting by tenant
Supreme Court: Explaining the rule of inference in matters relating to sub-tenancy or sub-letting, the bench RK Agrawal and Ashok Bhushan, JJ
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Former SC judge Justice P. Venkatarama Reddy appointed as arbitrator to settle dispute between actor Dilip Kumar & developer
Supreme Court: In the dispute between 95-year-old veteran actor Dilip Kumar and the developer of his Pali Hill Porperty, the bench of
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Nitish Katara Murder: Vikas Yadav’s review petition against 25 year imprisonment without remission, dismissed
Supreme Court: The bench of Dipak Misra, CJ and SA Bobde, J refused to interfere with the order in Vikas Yadav v.
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2002 Gujarat Riots: Gujarat HC order directing State Govt to pay compensation for destruction of religious structures set aside; Govt. Scheme accepted
Supreme Court: The bench of Dipak Misra, CJ and PC Pant, J set aside the Gujarat High Court order directing the Gujarat
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20 years rigorous imprisonment & Rs. 30, 20, 000 fine imposed on Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh for sexual exploitation of two Sadhvis
On 28.08.2017, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), in it’s press release, notified that the Special Judge Jagdeep Singh for CBI Cases,
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Supreme Court questions Gujarat Govt. on slow trial of rape case against Asaram Bapu
Supreme Court: The Court asked State of Gujarat to file an affidavit with response to it’s question as to why the trial
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