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Top Stories Your cheat sheet to Supreme Court’s 545 pages long Money Laundering verdict The 3-judge bench of AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari

Case BriefsSupreme Court

“When a child takes on to be a kosher member of the adoptive family it is only logical that he takes the surname of the adoptive family and it is thus befuddling to see judicial intervention in such a matter.”

Case BriefsHigh Courts

Chhattisgarh High Court: A Division Bench of Goutam Bhaduri and Deepak Kumar Tiwari JJ. entitled father-in-law to pay maintenance to widowed daughter-in-law

Karnataka High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Karnataka High Court: Hemant Chandangoudar, J.,  allowed the petition and quashed the impugned proceedings initiated against alleged offence under Section 80 of

Patiala House Courts, Delhi
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Patiala House Courts: In a matter for grant of custody parole, Dharmender Rana, ASJ-02, held that, merely because the accused is Muslim

Legislation UpdatesRules & Regulations

The Central Government notifies the Adoption (Amendment) Regulations, 2021 to amend the Adoption Regulations, 2017 in order to make inter-country adoptions easier.

Legislation UpdatesRules & Regulations

The Central Government has notified the amendments to the Adoption Regulations, 2017, made by the Central Adoption Resource Authority vide Adoption (First

Case BriefsHigh Courts

Bombay High Court: Manish Pitale, J., while stressing upon the concept of adoption expressed that: The practice of adoption has been prevalent

Case BriefsSupreme Court

The information provided by the State Governments/Union Territories on the ‘Bal Swaraj’ Portal upto 05.06.2021 shows that there are 30,071 children who have become orphans or have lost one parent or abandoned.

Case BriefsHigh Courts

Jharkhand High Court: Shree Chandrashekhar, J., addressed an issue with regard to maintenance under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure Code.

Case BriefsHigh Courts

Bombay High Court: M.G. Giratkar, J. dismissed a second appeal filed against the judgments of the lower courts wherein the partition suit brought by

Case BriefsHigh Courts

Allahabad High Court: The Court observed that a child can be given in adoption by a parent if the other parent has

Case BriefsHigh Courts

Bombay High Court: Deciding on a foreign adoption petition filed by the petitioners for the adoption of two minors, the bench of