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By Aswathy P S The Honourable Supreme court of India during the hearing of two PILs suggested the Attorney General of India, Mr. R. Venkatarami and Senior Advocate, Mr. Arvind P. Datar to come with out-of-the-box thinking on rising case pendency in High courts across the country like appointment of senior advocates of High courts as ad-hoc judges f …

By Sharvari Sutaone We all remember the spine shivering case of Bilkis Bano, don’t we? Shocking news was that the 11 convicts accused of gang raping her, who were sentenced to life imprisonment, were released prematurely. Now Bilkis Bano has filed a plea in the Supreme Court regarding this premature release of the convicts. Bilkis in her plea said th …

By Anish Padhye The Supreme Court bench comprising of Justice M.R Shah and Justice S. Ravindra Bhatt on Tuesday (i.e., 13 th December 2022) guaranteed Senior Advocate Dushyant Dave appearing for certain Christian organizations that his arguments will be heard on the next hearing date. But Mr. Dave insisted on contending his submissions during the sam …

By Aman Kumar The Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Saturday opined that the legislature must address issues related to the age of consent under the POCSO Act, which criminalizes consensual sexual affairs even in ‘romantic’ relationships for those under the age of 18. The remark comes in the backdrop of the recent observation made by several …

By Aditi Inamdar On December 3 rd , which is celebrated as International Day of Disabled Persons, The Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud has formed an expert panel, named “Supreme Court Committee on Accessibility”, to scrutinize the accessibility of the Court for the disabled. The Committee has been established with a view to take note of the dif …

By Kumkum Poonia Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister, Bhupendra Yadav introduced the controversial Wildlife Protection (Amendment) Bill in Rajya Sabha, 2022; gets a pass from the Upper House. The bill was earlier introduced and cleared in Lok Sabha in August during the Monsoon Session. It seeks to conserve, strengthen the protectio …

By Ananya Tripathi With more than 60 amendments, the draft Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Amendment) Bill 2022 was released on 25th of November. It proposes to bring amendments to the Prevention of cruelty to Animals Act, 1960. The bill released by Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying was open to public consultation till 7th of December. Af …

Written by: Shikha Singh (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) Whenever a crime or any overt act takes place in the social set up we hear a lot about the trial and conviction of the person being accused. If the accused is exonerated from the mentioned offense, he or she is permitted to be back and part of society and is exp …

Written by: Shikha Singh (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) A horrendous event witnessed some major legal developments regarding a rape case based in Kerala. Recently the competent court got hands on hearing of a sexual assault case centering a Malayalam actress who was sexually abused and an actor and producer Dileep an …

Written by: Shikha Singh (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) What Led to the Riot? The centre came up with its Citizenship Bill, which in turn steered some massive responses from different parts of the nation. The aforementioned bill claims to grant citizenship to- Hindu, Parsis, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists and Christians who …

Written by: Shikha Singh (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer)   Indian Penal Code enacted in 1860, till date stands to be a vanguard draft of substantive laws prevailing in India. It therefore acts as an umbrella text which covers the offenses and crimes conversant with the Indian society’s framework. The offenses listed ar …

Written by: Shikha Singh (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s convoy enrooted to Ferozepur, Punjab to address a rally for upcoming State election, witnessed an unprecedented security lapse on 5th of January. This caused the convoy to be stuck on a busy flyover for about 20 minutes which …