Source:- indiatimes.com. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has sought the Election Commission’s response on a plea which sought striking down of a provision in election rules that envisages prosecution of an elector if a complaint alleging malfunctioning of EVMs and VVPATs cannot be proven. A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and justices Deepak Gupta and
Source:- hindustantimes.com. Ten percent polling was recorded till 9 am on Monday for elections to 72 seats across nine states in the fourth phase of 2019 Lok Sabha elections amid PM Modi’s appeal for ‘record voting’ and reports of EVM glitches and clashes from several areas. “The estimated turnout at 9 am is 10.27 %”, the
Source:- news18.com. New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has held that the money laundering law, PMLA, prevails over the Bankruptcy Act and insolvency code when it comes to attachment of properties obtained as “proceeds of crime”. The court said the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), Recovery of Debt and Bankruptcy Act (RDBA), Securitisation and Reconstruction of
Source:- livelaw.in. The Bombay High Court has held that once a decree of divorce has been granted, relief cannot be sought by the wife under the Domestic Violence Act. Justice MG Giratkar was hearing a criminal revision application filed by a 42-year-old woman from Nagpur who challenged a judgment of the Judicial Magistrate First Class
Source:- hindustantimes.com. Sri Lankan housewife Fathima Fazla thought of her neighbours in the grand three-storey home across the street as the wealthy celebrities of her humble Colombo suburb. She had no idea how infamous they would become. Two brothers who lived at the white house on Mahawela Gardens have emerged as key players in suicide attacks
Source:- hindustantimes.com. India sent as many as three alerts to Sri Lanka, including one on the day of the Easter Sunday attack that left 321 people dead and 500 injured, according to senior intelligence officials familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. The first alert was on April 4, and it came from
Source:- business-standard.com. The Delhi High Court on Monday allowed Alembic Pharmaceuticals and Natco Pharma to export sorafenib, an active ingredient in Bayer’s cancer drug Nexavar, and rivaroxaban, the active ingredient in its blood thinner medicine Xarelto for research and development (R&D) purpose. A division Bench of Justice S Ravindra Bhat and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva, agreeing with the majority of the findings of a
Source:- hindustantimes.com. The right to travel abroad is an important basic human right, the Supreme Court said, as it allowed an Indian Police Service officer to travel abroad, permission for which was denied to him due to a pending departmental enquiry. A bench of justices LN Rao and MR Shah also said the right extended to
Source:- businesstoday.in. The Bombay High Court Thursday refused to intervene in the Jet Airways crisis, saying it cannot direct the government and the Reserve Bank of India to rescue a “sick company”. A bench of Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice N M Jamdar dismissed a writ petition seeking the government and the central bank be
Source:- hindustantimes.com. Terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed’s (JeM) launch pads in new locations across the Line of Control have been activated ahead of a possible effort to push terrorists from the Pakistan-based group into Jammu and Kashmir, top counter-terror officials and senior Jammu and Kashmir police officials said, although the latter added that this is because Indian security
