Legal news and Updates

Written by: Smita Pandey (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) BACKGROUND On 28 May, 2021 an article was published in ‘The Hindu’ titled ‘Night, early morning trains cause most elephant deaths’ by Wilson Thomas. Late night and early morning trains killed seven out of eight elephants on the two railway lines, A and B, b …

Written by: Shreya (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) The Legal Services Authority under the auspices of the National Legal Authority (NALSA) organized the second national Lok Adalat in the year 2021 across the country on 10th July. Legal Services Authorities have converted the pandemic into an opportunity by successfull …

Written by: Alisha Das (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) Stressing, that corruption is the deadliest enemy of every free civilized society, a Single Judge Bench of Hon’ble Ms. Justice Gita Gopi of the Gujarat High Court observed that society has become a victim to the rampant corrupt practices of the public servants. In …

Written by: Shreya (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) Introduction Umar Gautam is born in the Rajput family in Fatehpur, U.P. His original name was Shyam Pratap Singh. He was converted to Islam from the Hindu religion. Razia has been married to Umar. At the time of marriage, they both belonged to the Rajput caste. Nowaday …

Written by: Alisha Das (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) On July 7, a single-judge bench of the Kerala High Court, led by Hon’ble Justice Anil K Narendran , ordered all advocates arguing on behalf of the Central and State governments to remove their designations off their vehicles’ number plates within one week. Pre …

Written by: Smita Pandey (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) What is Honor Killing? Honor killing is essentially a murder committed by family members. It is the filthy behavior of members who are more concerned with the purity of their family than with the life of a single person. It is carried out in order to remove the d …

Written by: Shreya (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) INTRODUCTION On 5th July at 1:30 p.m father Stan Swamy passed away at the Holy Family hospital in Bandra. He was born on 24th April, 1937 in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu. He was also known as Stanislaus Lourduswamy . He was a tribal rights activist, Indian Roman Catholic …

Written by: Alisha Das (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) Last year, in August, the Delhi Police’s Economic Offence Wing (EOW) registered an FIR against PPK Newsclick Studio Private Limited which owns the digital news platform, NewsClick, and its founder, Prabir Purkayastha under Sections 406, 420, and 120-B of the IPC. …

Written by: Manvi Vikram (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) Social media platforms and media publications, among others, were asked to comply with the new IT Rules constituted in February this year by May 26 and Twitter was among the list of social media platforms that failed to finish the compliance method. It described …

Written by: Smita Pandey (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) In light of the present Covid-19 epidemic scenario across the country, the Supreme Court heard a petition seeking dismissal of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Engineering Services Exam 2021 on July 1, 2021. The plea was heard and denied at the end, und …

Written by: Aniket Anjan (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) BACKGROUND A plea has been moved to Allahabad high courts on seeking the direction to the Union of India for deciding petitioner representation regarding declaration those who have corona antibodies in developing in their body they don’t need to be vaccinat …

Written by: Shreya (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) On 1 st July Delhi High court said that it’s our moral responsibility to protect the animals not duty, the court also directed to the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) to ensure that every RWI constitute an Animal Welfare Committee. Someday, before a case filled re …