Source – livelaw.in The Law Commission of India has submitted the 274th report titled “Review Of Contempt Of Court Act 1971 (Limited To S.2 Of The Act)” to the Ministry of Law And Justice suggesting that the Commission does not consider it necessary to make any amendment therein for the present. “With respect to the

Source – indianexpress.com The Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI) — the nodal agency in charge of implementing Aadhaar — on Wednesday contended that there was no indignity associated with furnishing proof of identity to any institution or person, as it was only a “regulatory procedure.” Appearing for UIDAI, senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, said: “In a relational

Source – ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  Fighting back the Punjab government which had supported his conviction, Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that the verdict sentencing him to three years in a road rage case was flawed and not based on medical evidence. Mr Sidhu had allegedly hit a 65-year-old man, Gurnam Singh,

Source – indianexpress.com AIADMK ruled-Tamil Nadu will file a review petition in the Supreme Court challenging its order modifying certain provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, joining Kerala and three BJP-ruled states in taking such a step. The decision was arrived at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister K

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court (SC) today asked the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) government for a reply by April 27 on whether a plea to transfer the Kathua rape and murder case from the state’s courts to Chandigarh should be allowed. The SC also asked the state government to provide security to the

Source – indianexpress.com Followers of a religion cannot insist that others should not “portray” or “paint” tenets of its texts as such portrayal is protected by the Constitution, the Supreme Court observed Monday. The remarks came from Justice D Y Chandrachud who was part of a three-judge bench which heard a plea to stop the

Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supeme Court (SC) said today it has decided to examine, of its own accord, the Kathua gangrape-murder case + , and has also sent a notice to the Bar Council of Jammu and Kashmir for preventing the filing of a chargesheet against the rape accused. The SC also took serious

Source – indiatimes.com ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad High Court on Thursday slammed the Uttar Pradesh government on the Unnao rape incident and questioned the delay in the arrest of accused BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar. The court will pronounce its verdict on Friday. It had on Wednesday treated a letter written by a senior advocate as a

Source – indiatoday.in The Calcutta High Court on Thursday suspended the panchayat election process in West Bengal till April 16. Hearing a petition filed by the Bengal unit of the BJP, Justice Subrata Talukdar issued a stay on the entire process of scrutiny and withdrawal of nomination papers underway across the state. The Court has also

Source – indianexpress.com The Ramdas Athawale-led Republican Party of India (RPI-A) has filed a review petition in the Supreme Court against last month’s apex court ruling on the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The petition, filed last week by RPI(A) under the name of its national vice-president and Supreme Court advocate