Source:- indiatoday.intoday.in Lawyers of Calcutta High Court want to give up wearing black gowns and black coats as essential dress code inside the court-rooms. The summer has been unbearable this year, a stretch of heat spell in the months of April and May without any respite from the usual April thunderstorm — Kalbaishakhi. Engaging in

Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com MUMBAI: A one-night stand or a physical relationship between a man and a woman does not fall under the definition of marriage under Hindu laws, the Bombay high court said recently in an important order. A child born out of such an encounter may not have any rights over the father’s property, if

Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Proving that a girl had been raped by her uncle, two years after the crime, would have been very difficult, but a Delhi trial court relied on the child’s crayon sketches to convict the accused and award him five years in jail. The girl, who is 10 now and studies in

Source:- indiatvnews.com A special TADA court is likely to pronounce its judgement today in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case involving seven accused including extradited gangster Abu Salem. The dastardly attacks left 257 people dead, 713 seriously injured and destroyed properties worth Rs 27 crore. Apart from Abu Salem, the other six accused are –

Source:- thehindu.com India as a space superpower stands mightier than ever, but a law that protects the country’s sovereign, public and commercial interests is needed 05/06/2017, 17:28 IST: ISRO launches most powerful home-made rocket … 20/05/2017, 10:11 IST: NASA, ISRO to build Earth-imaging satellite… 05/05/2017, 16:59 IST: India’s satellite gift to South Asia… 02/04/2017, 13:29

Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: At least 160 students of Delhi University’s Law Faculty, detained for not meeting adequate attendance, will “not be promoted to the next term”, a notice released by the faculty mentions. Dean of the faculty, Ved Kumari, said that this is due to the attendance norm set by the Bar Council of

Source:- ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  Women in India often sacrifice their love and relationships to accept their parents’ decision, said the Supreme Court. The top court noted this in a judgement which set aside the conviction and life sentence of a man who had survived a pact with a woman to commit suicide immediately after secretly

Source:- legallyindia.com A lawyer consulting full time with a public sector undertaking (PSU), who had been unsuccessfully trying to get enrolled with the Gujarat bar council (BCG) since 2012, is not allowed to do so and therefore practically not an advocate, ruled the Gujarat high court according to the Times of India. The long-running saga of

Source:- financialexpress.com President Pranab Mukherjee has rejected the mercy petition of Purushottam Borate and Pradeep Kokade convicted in the 2007 Jyotikumari murder and rape case. The two men are convicted of abducting, raping and murdering BPO employee Jyotikumari in Pune in 2007. As per a statement issued by the President’s Secretariat, the mercy plea was

Source:- india.com New Delhi, Jun 18 (PTI) A person who has been terminated from service cannot be called an employee and is not entitled to retain the staff quarters provided by the employer, a Delhi court has said. The court’s observation came while upholding a man’s eviction from staff quarters of Institute of Human Behaviour