Source – timesnownews.com Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday allowed the Haryana police and the district administration to search the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters in Sirsa. The searches will be conducted under the supervision of a judicial officer, the high court said. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had on Monday stated and the

Source – aljazeera.com The triple talaq judgement pronounced by the Constitution bench of five judges of the Supreme Court of India has been hailed as “historic” by all concerned. While the operative part of the elaborate ruling comprising of three different and diverse judicial opinions captured in 395 pages is just one line: “By a majority of 3:2

Source – indiatoday.intoday.in After Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim’s conviction in rape cases, another controversial guru Radhe Maa may be in trouble soon. The Punjab and Haryana High Court today pulled up Punjab police for not acting against a complaint on her. Phagwara resident Surender Mittal had complained to the court that Kapurthala

Source – verdict.justia.com In a 547-page judgment, the Supreme Court of India recently ruled that the Constitution of India protects a right of privacy. The decision will undoubtedly be extremely important in India, which, with a population of over 1.3 billion, is not only the world’s largest democracy but by one measure includes roughly one-third of all people living in democracies.

Source – indianexpress.com The Centre defended in Supreme Court on Tuesday the exception in Section 375 of the IPC, which states that sexual intercourse between a man and a girl aged between 15 and 18 years will not amount to rape if they are married. Senior counsel Rana Mukherjee told a bench headed by Justice

Source – livemint.com New Delhi/Mumbai: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed an order passed in August by the Allahabad bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) which initiated insolvency proceedings against Jaypee Infratech Ltd. Legal experts said the apex court’s ruling could set a precedent in terms of how it balances the rights of lenders versus

Source – thewire.in New Delhi: The Supreme Court is currently hearing challenges to the validity of a clause in the Indian legal definition of rape which excludes sexual intercourse by a man with a minor girl above the age of 15 if she happens to be his wife. Most observers believe the court is unlikely to strike this exception down.

Source  – deccanchronicle.com Thiruvananthapuram: With the Supreme Court on Wednesday cancelling the admissions to the DM Institute of Medical Sciences, Wayanad, and Mount Zion Medical College, Pathanamthitta, the future of 400 students admitted to MBBS courses was hanging in the balance. The SC cancelled the admissions on a petition of Medical Council of India (MCI). The admissions

Source – financialexpress.com Observing that there has been no real compliance of several orders on implementation of noise pollution norms, the Bombay High Court today said the Maharashtra government should stop treating the issue in an “adversarial” way. The high court has, in several orders passed in the past few years, directed the government to ensure

Source – intoday.in The private schools that did not refund the excess fee charged by them despite the government order, have been given two weeks to deposit 75 per cent of the principal amount to avoid facing a coercive action. The directions came from the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that asked these city schools to