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The mere usage of the word “parent”, “relative” or “any person” in Section 14 of National Trust for the Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation, and Multiple Disabilities Act, 1999 does not convince this Court to conclude that a non-citizen could also claim a right to be appointed as a guardian of a person with a disability. Neither of those three expressions can be possibly understood as constituting a legislative intent to recognise foreign nationals as being entitled to be appointed as guardians.

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Technology has advanced so much that regular interactions between two individuals living in different countries or even continents can easily be maintained through video calls and video conferencing. In fact, in the last three years, when the world was grappling with the Covid pandemic, interactions through video calls have become the new norm. Even when Courts today are functioning fully physically, lawyers are being permitted to join through video conferencing only because of the advancements in technology.

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Supreme Court has ordered that the Rajasthan High Court's impugned order being interlocutory in nature, shall not be treated as precedent for cancellation of bail granted to the petitioner in other cases, and the question of law was kept open to be decided in an appropriate case.

Chhattisgarh High Court
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    Chhattisgarh High Court | In an appeal related to the custody of a girl child, a Division Bench comprising of

Kerala High Court
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Kerala High Court granted anticipatory bail to Wildlife conservationist and snake expert Vava Suresh accused under the Wildlife Protection Act, for displaying a highly poisonous cobra while delivering his speech at a Government Medical College

Delhi High Court
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Delhi High Court denied bail to a married person as he wanted to take advantage of the complainant by getting the complainant’s Date of Birth on the Aadhar Card changed so that when the applicant established physical relationship with the complainant, she would not have been a minor.

Telangana High Court
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    Telangana High Court: While deciding a case, wherein, a writ of habeas corpus was filed seeking to direct the respondents

Madras High Court
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    Madras High Court: In an application seeking the appointment of the applicant as a fit and proper person to be

Madras High Court
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Madras High Court: The five-judge bench of P.N. Prakash, N. Anand Venkatesh, R. Mahadevan, M. Sundar, A.A. Nakkiran, JJ. in a 3:2

Madras High Court
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Madras High Court: In a case relating to the issue of concurrent jurisdiction of the High Court over matters of child custody

Karnataka High Court
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    Karnataka High Court: In a case filed by the petitioner-mother (‘petitioner 2') seeking acceptance on her pending passport application for

Orissa High Court
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Orissa High Court: A Division Bench of SK Sahoo and M S Raman, JJ. disposed of the petition leaving the petitioner with

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“One should not doubt the capacity and/or ability of the paternal grandparents to take care of their grandson.”

Gujarat High Court
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Gujarat High Court: The Division Bench Vipul M. Pancholi and Rajendra M. Sareen, JJ., dismissed a petition filed by the father under

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Supreme Court: In a significant case, the 4-judges Bench comprising of Uday Umesh Lalit, S. Ravindra Bhat, P.S. Narasimha and Sudhanshu Dhulia,

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Chhattisgarh High Court: Goutam Bhaduri, J., allowed the petition and directed the vehicle to be released on certain conditions.  The brief facts

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7 Interesting Picks of the Week Gone by. Under Muslim Personal law, can Family Court dissolve the marriage of a couple? Bom

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Gujarat High Court: Ashok Kumar C. Joshi, J., denied granting child custody to father, wherein the mother was alleged to have extra-marital

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