Source – indiatoday The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will hold public hearings in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case today. India and Pakistan will present their cases to the ICJ over the contentious Kulbhushan Jadhav issue. The ICJ had on May 9 stayed the death sentence to the alleged Indian spy. The ICJ, the United Nations’ principal

Source – financialexpress.com With the Supreme Court refusing to fast-track it and pushing for out-of-court negotiations, it is evident no legal verdict can resolve the vexed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute.Way back in 1993, the apex court had indicated that any court verdict is fraught with risks. Although much water has flown down the Sayaru since then,

Source – hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court questioned WhatsApp over its change in privacy policy after Facebook acquired it in 2016. As per the new policy the instant message service can share data with the social networking platform. A five-judge bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra raised the query while it was hearing petitions challenging WhatsApp’s privacy

Source – hindustantimes The Delhi High Court on Monday said marital rape was a “serious issue” which had notoriously become a “part of the culture”. A division bench of acting chief justice Gita Mittal and justice C Hari Shankar, hearing a PIL against the penal code provision that protects husbands from being tried for the rape

Source – hindustantimes.com The Delhi High Court on Tuesday transferred the case of missing student Najeeb Ahmad to the CBI after the crime branch of Delhi Police failed to trace the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student. Najeeb, 27, a first year MSc student, had gone missing from the JNU hostel on the night of October 14-15

Source – financialexpress.com A city court has ruled that the marriage performed by a Muslim woman during the ‘iddat’ (waiting) period is not invalid, even as the issue of triple talaq is being debated in the Supreme Court. Under the Islamic law, a divorced woman has to wait during the ‘iddat’ period for about three months

Recently, a Supreme Court bench set aside an eight-page Himachal Pradesh High Court judgment because it could not “comprehend the contents”. The case was about a tenant-landlord dispute. Here’s an extract: “However, the learned counsel…cannot derive the fullest succour from the aforesaid acquiescence… given its sinew suffering partial dissipation from an imminent display occurring in

Source – india.com Chandigarh, May 16 (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal and Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Tuesday expressed anguish over the Italian Supreme Court upholding a ban on wearing of ‘kirpan’ and plan to raise the issue at appropriate platforms to ensure “justice” to Sikhs settled in Italy. In a statement here on Tuesday,

Source – hindustantimes.com There is no guaranteed right to privacy enshrined in the Indian constitution. However, in many judgements over several years, several legal luminaries have interpreted Article 21 – the right to life and liberty as giving rise to a somewhat limited right to privacy. There are a number of restrictions to a right to

Source – news18.com Patna: The Patna High Court on Wednesday removed two of the seven sets of commitments (Saat Nischay) from the purview of the state government appointed special body and restored rights of local bodies to implement these schemes. Saath Nischay is similar to a common minimum program which was agreed upon between Janata Dal (United),