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
Nithyakalyani Narayanan. V Madras High Court Judge Justice N. Anand Venkatesh encountered a disturbing incident of misuse of his name by an impostor to guarantee a seat in a private engineering college in Chennai. His Personal Assistant lodged a complaint, Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal On August 22, 2023, a ceremony was held by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) to honor Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice SV Bhatti as newly appointed Supreme Court judges. Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud said Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal On 17th August 2023, the Supreme Court declared that a woman alone has the right to her body and is ultimately responsible for deciding whether or not to have an abortion. The rights to reproductive autonomy, dignity, and Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal Recently, the Karnataka High Court dismissed the petition challenging the family court’s order for the husband to pay his estranged wife Rs 10,000 per month as maintenance for the upkeep of his minor child. The single judge bench headed by Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal Justice Deepak Gupta, former Supreme Court justice, lectured on the topic “Developments in Fundamental Rights in Last Decade” and discussed his opinions on marital rape against the backdrop of the right to privacy. When questioned about his opinions Read more
Nithyakalyani Narayanan. V On August 18th, the Supreme Court reserved its judgment on whether children born out of invalid, void and voidable Hindu marriages can inherit their parents’ ancestral property. A three-judge Bench, headed by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud along Read more