HIGH COURT WEEKLY ROUNDUP [29Dec-5 Jan] | Shilpa Shetty’s Deepfakes; Indore Water Contamination Crisis; Actor Junior NTR’s Personality Rights; and more
A quick legal roundup to cover important stories from all High Courts this week.
Lucknow Ajeet Singh Murder Case
“Wife outshines uncle in closest legal heir test”: Allahabad HC denies relief to uncle for transferring investigation to CBI in Lucknow Ajeet Singh Murder Case
“According to the ‘closest legal heir test’, the closest or the proximate legal heir of the victim must outshine the next closer legal heir because the administration of justice does not warrant any dispute even on determining as to who would be the ‘legal heir’ to pursue the grievance of a victim, in pursuing a criminal case, which is fundamentally construed to be an offence against the society.”