Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The number of fake lawyers across the country may well touch the halfway mark, if the Bar Council of India’s two year old verification drive is to be believed. Earlier this week, BCI chief Manan Kumar Mishra announced before Chief Justice of India J S Khehar and other senior Supreme Court judges

Source:- scroll.in The ongoing case of a Yemeni student who has moved the Delhi High Court against his imminent deportation has put the spotlight on the issue of the precarious state of refugee rights in India. Despite hosting a large number of refugees and asylum seekers – 204,600 in 2011 – the country is neither

Source:- indiatoday.intoday.in The judgement in the NJAC case cannot be used as “a ruse to interdict” the assumption of office by Chief Justice of India J S Khehar, the Supreme Court has said while dismissing a plea challenging his appointment. A bench of Justices R K Agrawal and D Y Chandrachud gave a reasoned judgement

Source:- hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court on Monday relaxed the 20-week legal ceiling on abortion to allow a woman to abort her 24-week baby with anencephaly, a life-threatening congenital defect where a baby is born without parts of the brain, skull and scalp. India’s Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act legalises abortions up to 20 weeks

Source:- thehindu.com The Supreme Court has declared that animals have a right to protect their life and dignity from human excesses In recent years, the Supreme Court has upheld the rights of animals and birds to lead a life of “intrinsic worth, honour and dignity,” even at the cost of popular faith and practices of

Source:- firstpost.com Taunting a wife and ridiculing her lack of English speaking skills don’t amount to cruelty under the law, says a recent Bombay High Court ruling granting bail to a man charged with the abetment of suicide and showing cruelty to his wife. The Free Press Journal reported the court’s observations: “According to the

Source:- timesnow.tv Tamil Nadu Assembly on Monday unanimously passed the Jallikattu bill legalising the bull taming sport in the state of Tamil Nadu. The bill was tabled by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam and was unanimously passed within minutes. The bill has put forth some conditions to make sure that the bulls used for

Source:- bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com The Karnataka High Court has come down on petitions that bring civic disputes before it, saying they are eating into precious time of the courts. Petitions seeking directions to civic authorities like BDA or BBMP should not be brought before the HC at the first instance, the court said, pointing out that there

Source:- indianexpress.com In a major setback to more than 400 private unaided schools in Delhi, the Supreme Court upheld that schools erected on public land cannot hike fee without approval of the Delhi government. The order assumes more significance due to its timing since the new fee structure by private schools were likely to be

Source:- thehindu.com Canon law and decrees of divorce given by ecclesiastical tribunals or ‘Church Courts’ cannot veto the statutory law of divorce, the Supreme Court said on Thursday. Thus saying, a Bench of Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud disposed of a writ petition filed in 2013 seeking a judicial declaration