Month: September 2018

Source- india.com New Delhi: The Supreme Court would be hearing next week a plea seeking a court-monitored probe in the Alwar lynching case. The plea has been filed by the victim’s family, said ANI. The plea has also sought for transfer of the trial out of Rajasthan. The Supreme Court had earlier sought a detailed affidavit from the Rajasthan government

Source – hindustantimes.com The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the AAP government to conduct walk-in interviews to fill in the vacancies in one month at a government-run blind school which has been working at half its sanctioned strength of teachers. A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V Kameswar Rao also asked the

Source – indianexpress.com Agreeing with the Tamil Nadu government’s objection to protests on Marina Beach, the Madras High Court on Monday set aside a petition seeking permission to hold a public meeting at Chennai’s popular beach, which had witnessed a massive protest over Jallikattu in 2017. Allowing an appeal moved by the Tamil Nadu government, a

Source – qz.com The supreme court of India today (Sept. 06) scrapped section 377 ofthe Indian penal code that criminalised homosexuality. A bench consisting of chief justice Dipak Misra and justices DY Chandrachud, AM Khanwilkar, Indu Malhotra, and Rohinton Fali Nariman, in separate but concurring judgments, ruled that India’s LGBTQ community has the same sexual rights as everyone else. The supreme

Source – thehindu.com The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that minor survivors of rape or sexual assault will get compensation on par with women victims. The apex court extended the National Legal Services Authority’s (NALSA) compensation scheme for women rape and sexual assault survivors to minor children. A three-judge Bench led by Justice Madan B. Lokur directed that

Source – reuters.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, embraced judicial independence on Wednesday but sidestepped Senate Democrats’ questions on whether a president can pardon himself or fire a prosecutor investigating him. Kavanaugh faced a grueling session of more than 12 hours of questioning before a Senate panel that was

Source – indianexpress.com “Child rape is inexcusable” and “no leniency or mercy can be shown” to one who commits such a crime, the Delhi High Court said on Tuesday while declining to quash the ordinance that allows courts to award death penalty to those convicted of raping girls aged below 12. “Offence of rape is serious

Source – indianexpress.com The CBI on Wednesday raided 31 locations across Chennai, Mumbai and Bangalore, including the premises of Tamil Nadu Health Minister C Vijaybhaskar, Tamil Nadu DGP TK Rajendran, Tamil Nadu DG (Fire and Rescue) S George, former minister BV Ramana and several officials of the Central excise department, food safety department and health department

Source – dnaindia.com The Income Tax Act, 1961 (‘the Act’) empowers the tax officer to re-open and re-assess a taxpayer’s case, where an order has been passed after conducting scrutiny proceedings. Technically termed as ‘reassessment’ under the Act, if the tax officer has reasons to believe that any income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment for

There was a big seminar on legal education and the future of national law schools the other day with constitutional heavyweights in attendance. Five-year law, it was said, has captured the national imagination. In 1991, when I was leaving the safe ecosystem of Kolkata (then Calcutta) for law school in Karnataka, I had to grapple