Jahanvi Agarwal The Uttarakhand High Court dismissed a Criminal Revision filed by a mother against the maintenance demanded by her son. The Court highlighted that if a parent has the resources to maintain their legitimate/illegitimate child but chooses not to do so, Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal On the occasion of Raksha Bandhan, the Orissa High Court affirmed the conviction of a brother for repeatedly raping his 14-year-old sister, leading to her pregnancy. The case was adjudicated by a single Bench of Justice Sangam Kumar Read more
Nithyakalyani Narayanan. V The Madras High Court has taken up suo motu revision of a 2012 order dismissing former Chief Minister O Panneerselvam (OPS) in a corruption case. This is the fourth suo motu revision by Justice N Anand Venkatesh. The hearing will be Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal On August 22, 2023, the Bombay High Court’s Goa bench ruled that the Archbishops of Goa, Daman, and Diu are not “public authorities” as defined by the Right to Information Act (RTI Act) and are also not required Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal The Supreme Court dismissed an appeal filed by the Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner against an order passed by a division bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, which stated that since the term “basic wage” has already Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal Recently, the Central Government communicated to the Delhi High Court that the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) is not required for admission to central universities. The division bench consisted of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Read more
Nithyakalyani Narayanan. V Urvi Bharadwaj, final year student at Hidayatullah National Law University (HNLU), Raipur was found dead in the girls’ hostel washroom on August 24th. Urvi’s hostel mates found her lying unconscious on the washroom floor. Although she was Read more
Nithyakalyani Narayanan. V The Allahabad High Court has launched an online portal for the public to access Hindi translations of the Court judgments. The portal was officially launched on August 25th under the chairmanship of Chief Justice Pritinkar Diwakar. The Read more
Nithyakalyani Narayanan. V The Kerala High Court held that a husband’s girlfriend or a woman involved in a sexual relationship with him outside of marriage, cannot be prosecuted under Section 498A of the IPC, which penalises cruelty on a woman Read more
Nithyakalyani Narayanan. V The Madras Bar Association remarked on the step taken by the Central Government to rename the Indian Penal Code, Criminal Procedure Code and Indian Evidence Act with ‘Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita Bill’, ‘Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Bill’ and ‘Bharatiya Read more