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Can wife claim maintenance under S. 125 CrPC where appeal is pending against divorce granted under S. 13 HMA? All HC decides

Allahabad High Court: Syed Aftab Husain Rizvi, J., addressed a revision petition filed by the husband who claimed that the Family Court

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Explained| Who can claim share in the inherited property of a female Hindu dying issueless and intestate?

Supreme Court: The bench of SA Nazeer and Krishna Murari*, JJ has held that if a female Hindu dies intestate without leaving

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10 Legal Stories of the week: From High Courts, District Courts to Tribunals

Here are some of the interesting Legal Stories from Week 4 of January 2022 Bishop Franco Mulakkal; A victim of faction feud

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“Reservation is not at odds with merit”; Here’s why SC upheld OBC reservation in NEET PG and UG Admissions in AIQ quota

Supreme Court: In a detailed judgment, the bench of Dr. DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna, JJ has upheld the Constitutional validity of

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Law on Rejection of Plaint | Contents of plaint or Examining sufficiency of plaint? Del HC explains the bounden duty of Court

Delhi High Court: Prateek Jalan, J., expressed that, For the purposes of an order under Order VII Rule 11 of the CPC,

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Daughter-in-law who obtains compassionate appointment by stating that she will take responsibility of her mother-in-law is bound by that undertaking: Cal HC

Calcutta High Court: 80-year-old widow approaches Court to seek direction towards her daughter-in-law to provide for her maintenance as she had taken

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Trademark| RENAISSANCE and SAI RENAISSANCE phonetically and visually similar; Twin conditions must be fulfilled to get benefit of Section 30(1) of the Trademarks Act: SC

Supreme Court: In a Trademark infringement case, the bench of L. Nageswara Rao, BR Gavai* and BV Nagarathna, JJ has ordered in

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53-year-old man molested a 9-year-old minor boy by pressing his private parts: Court sentences man under POCSO Act

Court of Fast Track Special Judge (POCSO), Thiruvanathapuram: R. Jayakrishnan, Special Judge addressed a case wherein a minor boy aged 9 years

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Land Acquisition| Provisions of 2013 LA Act not applicable for the acquisitions made under the BDA Act

Supreme Court: The bench of SA Nazeer* and Sanjiv Khanna, JJ has clarified the position of law on applicability of the provisions

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Jhar HC | Mistakenly entered wrong digit of Roll No. in OMR sheet? Can one seek to add obtained scores when the sheet is rejected by Scanning Machine? HC answers

Jharkhand High Court: S.N. Pathak, J., rejected the petition filed by a civil services candidate, who was declared unsuccessful in prelims examination

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Kar HC | Amendment to R. 13 of Karnataka Essential Commodities PDS (Control) Order, 2016 challenged; State Government to consider without reference to the ‘age’ and ‘pass in SSLC’ as one time measure

Karnataka High Court: P. S. Dinesh Kumar, J., disposed of the petitions and upheld the State Government’s power and prerogative to impose

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Photograph of summons sent through WhatsApp as an addition to ordinary process would amount to Judicial Overreach? Del HC decides

Delhi High Court: Amit Bansal, J., expressed that Just because the photograph of the summons were sent by the plaintiff to the

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HP HC | Power under Or. 18 R. 17 CPC cannot be invoked to fill up omission in the evidence already led by a witness

Himachal Pradesh High Court: Sandeep Sharma, J., allowed the petition and quashed the impugned order dated 17-07-2017. The facts of the case

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Husband’s company can have ‘Virat Kohli’ as a brand ambassador, but cannot provide maintenance to wife: Man tried appearing as a pauper? Saket Courts adjudicates

Saket Courts, New Delhi: Anuj Agrawal, Additional Sessions Judge –05 while addressing case wherein the maintenance sought by wife, held that, “It

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Conviction and Death Sentence on the same Day for kidnapping, rape and murder of an 11 Year Old: SC commutes sentence from death to life

Supreme Court: In a case where the order of conviction and sentence was passed on the same day, the 3-judge bench of

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Merely because the same caste is recognized as Scheduled Caste in the migrant State, a migrant cannot be recognized as Scheduled Caste of that State: SC

Supreme Court: The Division Bench comprising of M. R. Shah* and A.S. Bopanna, JJ., held that a person belonging to Scheduled Caste

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Whether insurance company is liable to pay claim even if vehicle stolen and unauthorisedly driven? Del HC decides

Delhi High Court: Sanjeev Sachdeva, J., considered the issue of whether the insurance company would be liable to pay amount in a

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Explained| Grant of Leave to Defend: The best approach

Supreme Court: The bench of Vineet Saran and Dinesh Maheshwari*, JJ has explained the law relating to grant of unconditional leave to

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MEP Infra v. SDMC | Bom HC restrains MEP Infrastructure from disposing of or creating 3rd party rights in its immovable properties in Maharashtra

Bombay High Court: The Division Bench of G.S. Patel and Madhav J. Jamdar, JJ., passed an interim order in the dispute going

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‘On Judgement Day, God shall admonish petitioner for committing un-Christian act’: Read whether Madras HC holds Catholic Priest prima facie accountable under S. 295A IPC for using ‘Bharat Mata’ and ‘Bhuma Devi’ in offensive manner

Madras High Court: On finding that Section 295A IPC will be attracted in the present case, G.R. Swaminathan, J., observed that, Bhuma