Source- business-standard.com The Delhi High Court has granted police protection to a 21-year-old woman and her husband who married against the wishes of her parents and apprehend danger to their lives. Justice Najmi Waziri directed the police that the matter be looked into by the SHO concerned and the petitioner’s family be duly sensitised about

Source: indiatoday.in A division bench in the Bombay High Court has upheld the Maratha Reservation Bill saying that the state is within its right. We hold and declare that the state government possesses legislative competence to create a separate category of the Socially and Educationally Backward Class and grant reservation, the court said. However, the

Source: deccanchronicle.com Chennai: The Madras high court pointed out the legal principle that excess payment of salary cannot be recovered from Group-III and Group-IV employees as well as retired employees. The court directed the Chief Secretary to government to issue consolidated/comprehensive instructions to all the subordinate officials to ensure that in the event of wrong

Source: thehindu.com Natural resources company Vedanta Limited on Wednesday told the Madras High Court that the 2018 protests against its Sterlite copper smelting plant in Thoothukudi, during which 13 people were shot dead in a police firing incident, were orchestrated by a group of non-governmental organisations and activist groups operating for profit and with ulterior

Source: business-standard.com Three people were arrested for allegedly supplying illegal arms to criminals operating in Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, police said Thursday. The accused, identified as — Khilafat Ali (56), Furkan (49), both residents of Meerut and Khalid (28), a resident of Hapur. They were nabbed from Murga Mandi in Gazipur, where they had

Source: dnaindia.com The ruling CPI(M)’s state secretary, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, Monday said nobody attempted to settle the rape allegation levelled against his son Binoy Kodiyeri by a Mumbai-based woman. Balakrishnan, who addressed the media after a meeting of the party’s state committee, said he came to know about the complaint only after a court sent a

Source: deccanchronicle.com BENGALURU: The edifice of law has broken and it is police raj in the state, the Karnataka High Court orally observed while hearing a case on Wednesday. The court took state police to task for the manner in which it has been functioning and added that it sends chills down the spines of

Source: indiatoday.in The Delhi High Court on Wednesday posted for July 8 a plea seeking direction to the Lok Sabha Speaker to appoint a Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, saying there was no urgency in the matter. A vacation bench was hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by advocates Manmohan Singh and

Source: businesstoday.in On June 24, Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Minister of Law & Justice, Electronics & Information Technology introduced The Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019. Amidst protests by some Opposition leaders, he sought to provide a brief explanation. “Supreme Court has elaborately dealt with the Aadhaar Act and has held that Aadhaar is

Source: thewire.in Last week, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking him to increase the Supreme Court’s current sanctioned strength of 31 judges, ostensibly to tackle the continuing rise in pendency of cases. The court, which began with a sanctioned strength of eight judges, saw the number of judges