Source: outlookindia.com Ahmedabad, Aug 5 Congress leader Gaurav Pandya has filed an election petition in the Gujarat High Court challenging the Election Commission”s decision to hold separate bypolls to two Rajya Sabha seats in the state. The elections to the seats which fell vacant after BJP leaders Amit Shah and Smriti Irani were elected to

Source: indiatoday.in The Bombay High Court on Monday dismissed a plea filed by a witness in the alleged fake encounter case of suspected gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh, his wife Kasuar Bi and their aide, challenging the acquittal of 22 people in the case by a special court. The witness, Mahendrasinh Zala, had challenged the December 2018

Source: indianexpress.com As Jammu & Kashmir loses its special status with Monday’s Presidential order, the region will witness a tectonic shift in laws governing the state. From property-related laws, criminal laws to crucial central laws like Right to Information & Education — these will be among the many that will be applicable to the proposed Union Territories (UTs),

Source: hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court will consider on Monday a policy submitted by the Delhi government to restrict the number of guests and wastage of food at social functions at motel and farmhouses in the capital. On July 1, the apex court had directed the AAP government to formulate a policy to curb extravagance in

Source: dnaindia.com The Gujarat High Court has refused to quash an FIR against the chief officer of Bavla Nagar Palika, Siddharth Patel, for the death of three persons on March 31 while cleaning a drain. Patel was booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and for employing manual scavengers in contravention of the Prohibition

Source: indialegallive.com At Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, he was the monarch of all he surveyed. Today, Tiger T24, popularly known as Ustad, is languishing in solitary confinement at Sajjangarh Biological Park in Udaipur. Ustad attained notoriety after he killed a forest guard on May 8, 2015. Tragically, it was human interference that made Ustad a man-eater.

Source: thehindu.com In furtherance of the recommendations made by the apex court in Tehseen S. Poonawalla v. Union of India, the Rajasthan government has introduced the Rajasthan Protection From Lynching Bill, 2019. If it gets passed, Rajasthan will be the second State after Manipur to have a dedicated law criminalising mob lynching as a special offence,

Source: indiatoday.in The Delhi High Court has granted bail and suspended the seven years’ sentence awarded to a man for digitally raping an American woman who recently shot a video outside the Indian Consulate in San Francisco, alleging that she was denied assistance there. The incident dates back to 2013, when Delhi resident Rajiv Panwar

Source: deccanchronicle.com Chennai: The Madras high court has said, “Customary divorce can never be approved nor recognized by law. The Hindu Marriage Act, which was enacted in the year 1955, recognized such customary divorce and now, after a lapse of 64 years, the practice of granting customary divorce can never be adopted nor be followed and

Source: thestatesman.com The Division Bench of Chief Justice T B N Radhakrishnan and Justice Arijit Banerjee of Calcutta High Court rejected two Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on the ownership of Biswa Bangla logo. The PILs sought investigation by central agencies into the controversial “Biswa Bangla” trademark, which was created by chief minister Mamata Banerjee for