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Judicial independence of the Tribunals can be achieved only when the Tribunals are provided the necessary infrastructure and other facilities without having to lean on the shoulders of the executive.

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TOP STORIES Maintenance of wife|Husband doesn’t have to pay maintenance in each of the proceedings under different Maintenance laws [Explainer on Supreme

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“Liberty survives by the vigilance of her citizens, on the cacophony of the media and in the dusty corridors of courts alive to the rule of (and not by) law. Yet, much too often, liberty is a casualty when one of these components is found wanting.”

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Supreme Court: In the case where Direct Recruits to the newly created posts of Tax Assistants in the Finance Department of the

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Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of L. Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi, JJ has directed that that there will be

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“A police officer in the Railway Protection Force is required to maintain a high standard of integrity in the discharge of his official functions.”

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“Vires of a relevant provision goes to the root of the matter.”

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Supreme Court: In a breather to customers in the case relating to waiver of interest on loan during the moratorium period, the

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“Dispensation of justice by the Tribunals can be effective only when they function independent of any executive control: this renders them credible and generates public confidence.”

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“The remedy of bail is the solemn expression of the humaneness of the justice system.”

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“The law is well settled that Courts would not thwart any investigation.”

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“The transfer of trial from one state to another would inevitably reflect on the credibility of the State’s judiciary. Except for compelling factors and clear situation of deprivation of fair justice, the transfer power should not be invoked.”

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“The courts’ role is to act as the guarantor and jealous protector of the people’s liberties: be they assured through the freedoms, and the right to equality and religion or cultural rights under Part III, or the right against deprivation, in any form, through any process other than law.”

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Ex-BSF Jawan Tej Bahadur’s nominations were rejected by the returning officer for want of a certificate to the effect that he has not been dismissed for corruption or disloyalty to the State.

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Supreme Court: In an elaborate judgment running into over 90 pages, the bench of AM Khanwilkar* and Dinesh Maheshwari, JJ has discussed

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Supreme Court: In a case dating back to 1999 where a married woman was found dead in her matrimonial home, the bench

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While going through the judgments uploaded on the Supreme Court’s official website, an anomaly has caught our attention. In two of the

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Proceedings for winding up of a company are proceedings in rem to which the entire body of creditors is a party, hence, by a deeming fiction the petition by even a single creditor is treated as a joint petition.

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Uttar Pradesh Government can now fill up 69, 000 posts in terms of the result declared on 12.05.2020.

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Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of L. Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta* and Ajay Rastogi, JJ has held that the High Court is

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