Source:-https://theprint.in New Delhi: The central government Thursday opposed a plea to impose lifetime ban on politicians convicted of criminal cases from contesting elections. The Ministry of Law and Justice made this submission before the Supreme Court in a case related to electoral reforms. The petitioner, advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, referred to the rule that debars

Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: An advocate has written to Attorney General K K Venugopal seeking his consent to initiate criminal contempt proceedings against activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan for his remarks made during a recent interview to a newspaper. The letter by advocate Sunil Kumar Singh claimed the November 29 interview of Bhushan makes an “insinuation that

Source:-https://www.indialegallive.com An interim application has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking directions to the Central government to ensure that the extremely high amount taken for conducting Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test to check for Covid-19 infections by private hospitals and labs is refunded to patients. According to the interim plea, the over-charged

Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com AHMEDABAD: A sitting judge of the Gujarat High Court died following a cardiac arrest on Saturday while undergoing treatment for coronavirus at a private hospital here, a doctor said. Justice G R Udhwani (59), who had tested COVID-19 positive on November 19, died at SAL Hospital due to complications arising out of the infection,

Source:-https://www.theindianwire.com On Thursday, the Karnataka High Court ordered that elections for 198 wards of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) should be held within 6 weeks. The validity of the Karnataka Municipal Corporation Third Amendment Act, 2020 (Amendment Act) was also upheld by the Bench of Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Vishwajith Shetty, but

Source:-https://theprint.in New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday granted bail to freelance journalist Rajeev Sharma, arrested in an espionage case under the Official Secrets Act for allegedly leaking sensitive information to Chinese intelligence. Justice Yogesh Khanna granted the relief to Sharma on furnishing of a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh and a surety of

Source:-https://www.mid-day.com India’s total COVID-19 active caseload dropped to 4,09,689 on Saturday, the lowest in 136 days, according to the Union health ministry. The ministry said that for the past eight days, the daily new recoveries recorded in the country have been more than the daily cases. The number of daily new cases in the last

Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com KOCHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday submitted before the Kerala High Court that the state government had not properly appreciated the evidence forwarded by it and ignored the gravity of the offence while declining sanction to prosecute INTUC state president R Chandrasekharan and former managing director of Kerala State Cashew Development

Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com CHENNAI: The Chief Justice of the Madras High Court AP Sahi on Thursday administered oath to 10 new additional judges including four women judges. With this, its total strength has increased from 53 to 63, of which 13 are women judges — the most among high courts in the country. The total sanctioned strength

Source:-https://www.indialegallive.com The Supreme Court on Thursday said a person suffering from a mental disorder or mental sickness deserves special care, love, and affection and is not to be exploited, while upholding the conviction of a man accused of raping a mentally-ill woman. The Apex Court has held that the High Court was justified in re