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SL SC | Sentencing is a sacred right vested with the judicial officer; Court rejects appeal

Supreme Court of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka: A Full Bench of Priyantha Jayawardena, L.T.B. Dehideniya and S. Thurairaja, JJ.,

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Cal HC | Labour Dispute| Duty of HC to only interfere in such matters where there is an egregious error in law

Calcutta High Court: Shekhar B. Saraf, J., while dismissing the present petition and upholding the interpretation placed by the Labour Court with

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Courts should be slow in rejecting enforcement of foreign awards; SC elucidates principles

Supreme Court: A 3-judge bench of RF Nariman, Aniruddha Bose and V. Ramasubramanian, JJ has held that enforcement of a foreign award

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Raj HC | Online fantasy game -“Dream 11” does not involve offences of betting and gambling; Court dismisses PIL

Rajasthan High Court: A Division Bench of Indrajit Mahanty CJ, and Ashok Kumar Gaur J., dismissed a Public Interest Litigation alleging the

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CIC | Information regarding details of police encounters in UP to be sought from UP State Information Commission

Central Information Commission (CIC): Y.K. Sinha (Information Commissioner) while forwarding the present case to UP State Information asked for the disposal of

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Bom HC | Accused having secured acquittal, presumption of innocence is further reinforced, reaffirmed and strengthened by trial court

Bombay High Court: K.R. Shriram, J., while upholding the decision of the trial court with regard to the acquittal of the accused,

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Grant permanent commission to all women officers in Army who opt for it within 3 months: SC to Centre [Full report]

Supreme Court: “Seventy years after the birth of a post-colonial independent state, there is still a need for change in attitudes and

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NHRC | Chilla Khadar village in Delhi does not have a school which forces the children to ride a boat to attend school — Violation of RTE

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, India has taken suo-motu cognizance of a media report that Chilla Khadar village in Delhi does

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Tri HC | Minimum points criteria to be fulfilled even in case of application of job on compassionate grounds

Tripura High Court: Akil Kureshi, J., dismissed a petition filed by the son of deceased employee of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)

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Bom HC | “Conduct cannot be seen divorced from totality of circumstances”; Conviction altered from S. 302 to 304 Part-II IPC

Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of Ranjit More and Surendra P. Tavadae, JJ., while disposing of the present appeal altered the

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Raj HC | Court directs seizure of building for wilful disobedience of Court order

Rajasthan High Court: A Division Bench of Sangeet Lodha and Mahendar Kumar Goyal JJ., ordered for seizure of building and issued show-cause

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Nirbhaya Case| SC dismisses Vinay Kumar’s plea against rejection of mercy plea

Supreme Court: A 3-judge bench of R. Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna, JJ has dismissed the plea seeking review of the

National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission

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NCDRC | ICICI Bank misplaced original Sale Deed of customer; District Forum’s decision of compensation and reconstruction of sale deed — Upheld

National Consumer Redressal Commission (NCDRC): Dinesh Singh (Presiding Member) while dismissing the revision petition filed by ICIC Bank Ltd. upheld the decision

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Bom HC | Right to Agitation | Persons agitating cannot be called as traitors, anti-nationals only because they want to oppose one law

Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of M.G. Sewlikar and T.V. Nalawade, JJ., while allowing the present petition with respect to the

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“Let’s wind up the Supreme Court”, says a furious SC on non-compliance of it’s AGR order by telecos [Full Report]

Supreme Court: Taking a strong note of non-compliance of its order asking telecom companies to pay adjusted gross revenue of Rs 1.47

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Ker HC | Officers of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau of a state are police officers and derives power and authority from same state as police officials

Kerala High Court: A Division Bench of A. Hariprasad and N. Anil Kumar JJ., disposed of writ petition by holding that Vigilance

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Cal HC | Lawyer using domestic space as his chamber will not be charged with tariff in “commercial category”

Calcutta High Court: Shekhar B. Saraf, J., while allowing the present petition held that, “Lawyer using a domestic space as his chamber

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NCDRC | Consumer alleging of defect in food served in a restaurant will have initial onus to prove that food quality was inferior

National Consumer Redressal Commission (NCDRC): Justice V.K. Jain (Presiding Member) while dealing with a complaint in regard to unhygienic food that emitted

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Bom HC | Homicidal Death | For a crime to be proved, it is not necessary that it must be seen to have been committed

Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of Surendra P. Tavade and Ranjit More, JJ., while dealing with a case in regard to

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SC directs political parties to publish criminal antecedents of candidates & give reasons for their selection

Supreme Court: In a major judgment today, a bench of RF Nariman and S. Ravindra Bhat, JJ has directed all political parties