Legal news and Updates

Written by: Ayushi Arya (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) A petition has been filed in the Delhi High Court by Anya Malhotra and Sohail Hashmi requesting for the suspension of construction activity at Central Vista Development Project i.e., construction of a new Parliament House. BACKGROUND The petitioner claimed that the …

Written by: Shubham B Jha (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) Bombay High Court has sent a notice to the National Investigation Agency and directed it for a reply on the Bail Plea of one of the accused of the Bhima Koregaon violence, Mr. Stan Swamy who is a priest at one of the local churches in Ranchi. Another activist M …

Written by: Akash Deep (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) The Supreme Court heard the suo moto case regarding the issues coming from COVID-19 crisis in the country. The case was heard by a three-judge bench headed by Justice DY Chandrachud along with Justice L. Nageswara Rao and Justice S. Ravindra Bhatt. In the suo moto …

Written by: Shubham B Jha (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) Two journalists from Manipur and Chhattisgarh have filed a writ petition in the Apex Court of India challenging the legality and the necessity of the much controversial law of Sedition as mentioned in Section 124A of the Penal Code, 1860. Mr. Kishore Chandra Wa …

Written by: Ashi Chouksey (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) The Punjab & Haryana High Court on Wednesday, 28th April commended the role of social media in reaching out to the citizens who are in sore need of help. The single judge bench of J ustice Arvind Singh Sangwan , although, add on that a micro percentage of medi …

Written by: Ayushi Arya (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) The Election Commission of India (ECI) approached the Madras High Court to obtain an order from the Court to block the Media from reporting oral comments made by the judges during the hearing of election-related cases. B ACKGROUND The petition filed on April 6 in Ma …

Written by: Sagar Rana (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) The Delhi High Court, on 26 th April 2021,   brought back  a disposed-of petition filed by advocate Rakesh Malhotra related to Covid-19 testing’s and infrastructure, stating that the virus has raised its “ ugly head ” once again. The court said the pande …

Written by: Muskan Rathore (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) T he order passed on 5 th January 2021 registered suo moto , i n Re ; Suo Moto v. State of Uttar Pradesh, by the Allahabad High Court, the court has once again extended all the interim orders which were existing on until 15 th March 2021 till the end of May of th is …

Written by: Muskan Rathore (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) A woman, identified as, Palwinder Kaur , filed a petition in front of the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking relief against Prince Harry of the United Kingdom for breaking a promise to marry her. The woman appeared as her own counsel in front of the court se …

Written by: Sagar Rana (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) On 12 th April 2021, The Allahabad High Court directed the Government Uttar Pradesh to look into the possibility of complete lockdown in districts where the spread of COVID-19 has a shocking rate in the last two or three weeks saying if the circumstances are not h …

Written by: Sagar Rana (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) On 10 th April 2021, the Kerala High Court held in its ruling that a child born out of a live-in relationship is ought to be treated as a child born out of a married couple for the purpose of the Adoption Guidelines and the Juvenile Justice Act. For the p …

Written by: Muskan Rathore (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) The Ex-Chairman of UP Shia Central Waqf Board, Waseem Rizvi pleaded for the removal of 26 Quran verses that illustrated violent aggravation was dismissed by the Supreme Court this Monday. Rizvi had filed a petition in the Supreme Court in previous month for th …