senior advocate drinking from beer mug
Case BriefsHigh Courts

In the present case, the video clip showed a Senior Advocate talking on his phone and drinking from a beer mug while attending virtual court proceedings.

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Critical Examination of SC's Judgment
Op EdsOP. ED.

by Arpit Goel*

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Inox’s acquisition of SkyPower
Law Firms NewsNews

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas acted as the legal counsel for SkyPower Group of entities

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consensual adolescent relationship
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“If the Courts started accepting that a major boy of age 25 years on-wards took away the girl who was a minor and then came with the defence of adolescent love, then it would not be a good sign from the legal point of view, because particular Acts were legislated with certain aims and objects.”

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Khaitan & Co. new office
Law Firms NewsNews

The move signals the Firm’s growing operations in South India

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GST on Online Gaming
Experts CornerTarun Jain (Tax Practitioner)

by Tarun Jain*

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JEE (Main) 2025 Unfair Means
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“It is a settled proposition of law that whenever any stigmatic order is passed against a person, which causes stigma on his career in future, it is bounden duty of the authority concerned to provide him opportunity of hearing, before passing such an order.”

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SAM & Co. advises Trichem Group
Law Firms NewsNews

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. acted as legal counsel to the Trichem Group

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electricity board duty wire trees
Case BriefsHigh Courts

In the present case, the live wires were hanging and had come near to the ground while touching the trees. Thereafter, due to negligence on the part of the board, the Respondent 2’s son died untimely.

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employee hard tribal posting
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The Court noticed in many cases that employees having good political relation and influence were hardly sent to hard/tribal area, and employees, who did not have any say in the corridors of Government, were repeatedly sent to hard/tribal areas, which resulted in heartburn.”

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i love you sexual intent
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“If somebody said that he was in love with another person or expressed his feelings itself would not amount to an “intent” showing some sort of his “sexual intention”. What constituted such “sexuality” or “sexual intent” and what was not, was a question of fact.”

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Kolkata National Disability Rights Article Writing Competition
Law School NewsOthers

The initiative aims to foster discourse on social stigma, digital accessibility, intersectionality, and AI’s role in disability laws, while amplifying underrepresented voices in the legal sphere.

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illegal demolition of community centre
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The use of demolition as a tool of enforcement, absent procedural compliance and judicial finality, transforms what should be a lawful act into a coercive one.”

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misuse of S.498-A IPC
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The Court observed that the police does not take proper precautions and appropriate investigation when it came to offences under Section 498-A IPC and called their attitude of proceeding with investigation with presumptions/prejudicial mind, ‘dangerous’.”

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NUJS Kolkata Journal on Dispute Resolution
Call For PapersLaw School News

The Journal seeks to strike a balance between practical and academic contributions on issues that form the forefront of contemporary legal discourse.

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assignment of music rights in perpetuity
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Since Defendant 2 has perpetual right to use music and songs; he also has perpetual right to grant licence to others in respect of the said music and songs.”

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Ambarish and Tanavi Mohanty rejoin SAM
Law Firms NewsNews

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. (SAM) is pleased to welcome Ambarish and Tanavi Mohanty, who have rejoined the Firm as Partners, in

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money for husband's bail not dowry
Case BriefsHigh Courts

It was not the prosecution’s case that any demand for dowry or any valuable security or other property was made by the accused. Rather, it was an admitted case that the only demand was to arrange Rs 50,000 to meet the legal expenses for applying bail of the husband and her father-in-law, who were in judicial custody.

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Art Market Participants PMLA
Experts CornerKhaitan & Co

by Avik Biswas*, Rithika Reddy** and Prerna Acharya***

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