Slaughter Houses: Allahabad HC Asks Yogi Govt. To Implement Law As A Model...
LiveLaw News Network “It is expected that the State Government and all it's authorities shall make an endeavour to study the social, the economic and the legal impact and the practicality of...
View ArticleSC Provisionally Permits Tamil Nadu Lower Courts To Write Judgments In Tamil...
Apoorva MandhaniThe Supreme Court on Thursday passed an interim order staying a Madras High Court verdict from 2014, which had quashed an earlier ruling on allowing Lower Courts in Tamil Nadu to use...
View ArticleConfiscation Proceedings Independent Of Main Criminal Case: SC [Read Judgment]
Ashok KM The intention of prescribing separate proceedings is to provide a deterrent mechanism and to stop further misuse of the vehicle, the Bench said The Supreme Court, in State of Madhya Pradesh vs...
View Article#TripleTalaq- Personal Law Is ‘Law’ Within The Meaning Of Art.13, ‘Narasu...
Apoorva MandhaniIn the Written Submissions on behalf of Bebak Collective and Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, Senior Advocate Ms. Indira Jaising has submitted that Personal Law is “law” and...
View ArticleJustice Karnan Not Ready To Tender Apology, Media Reports Wrong, States His...
LiveLaw News NetworkAdvocate Mathew Nedumpara, who moved Supreme Court for Justice Karnan against the 9th May contempt order, has released a press release on Saturday and clarified that the media...
View ArticleWithhold Commercialization Of GM Mustard: Adv. Prashant Bhushan Writes To...
Apoorva MandhaniIn a letter addressed to Mr. Anil Dave, Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate, Advocate Prashant Bhushan has demanded to withhold the commercial release of GM Mustard,...
View ArticleSupreme Court Weekly Round-Up
Ashok KMExpenditure Incurred To Earn Dividend Income On Shares Not Deductible In an important verdict, the Supreme Court, in Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Limited vs Dy Commissioner of...
View ArticleKarnan Approaches President, PM Against SC Order, SC Slams His Lawyer For...
LiveLaw News NetworkSupreme Court of India on Monday has slammed Justice Karnan’s lawyer Mathew Nedumpara for repeatedly mentioning Karnan’s matter before it. Chief Justice Khehar told Nedumpara “"you...
View ArticleTriple Talaq: Const Bench Rejects Centre’s Plea To Decide On Polygamy And...
LiveLaw News NetworkThe Constitution bench hearing challenges to triple talaq, today rejected Centre's plea to also decide validity of polygamy and nikah-halala but assured the issues will be kept open...
View ArticleSC Upholds The Vires of Maharashtra Value Added Tax (Levy, Amendment and...
Ashok KM The Supreme Court upholds constitutional validity of the Maharashtra Value Added Tax (Levy, Amendment and Validation) Act, 2009. Reiterating the settled proposition that Legislature has the...
View ArticleKulbhushan Jadhav’s Execution Will Cause Irreparable Damage: India At ICJ...
Apoorva MandhaniOn Monday, the International Court of Justice at The Hague, Netherlands began hearing India’s application seeking a stay on the execution of former Indian Navy Officer Kulbhushan...
View ArticleTriple Talaq (Day -3) – Personal Law Can Be Tested On The Touchstone Of...
LiveLaw News NetworkMr. Mukul Rohtagi, Attorney General of India (AGI) commenced his arguments on behalf of the Union of India today. He urged the Court to look into all three impugned practices of...
View ArticleSurveys On Aadhaar-PAN Linkage Show People Concerned About Possible Data Leak
LiveLaw News NetworkAfter a week-long hearing the Supreme Court may have just reserved its verdict on constitutional validity of a law making it mandatory for citizens to link their PAN card with...
View Article16-Yr-Old Boy Moves SC Seeking Complete Ban On Online Porn [Read Affidavit]
LiveLaw News NetworkThe latest petitioner before the Supreme Court seeking a complete ban on online porn is a 16-year-old class 12 student Akash Narwala from Kota, Rajasthan. Disgusted by his...
View ArticleHarish Salve Charged Re. 1 As Fee To Fight Kulbhushan Jadhav’s Case At The ICJ
Apoorva MandhaniSenior Counsel Harish Salve, who is representing India at the International Court of Justice against the death penalty awarded to Mr. Kulbhushan Jadhav by Pakistan, has charged a meager...
View ArticleTriple Talaq: AIMPLB Says Reforms In The Pipeline But Need Time; Asks SC Not...
LiveLaw News NetworkMaintaining that ceremonies concerning birth, marriage, divorce, property and death the Muslim community were being decided by family influenced by social norms, the All India...
View ArticlePenalty For Anti-Trust Violations Must Be Based On Relevant Turnover, Not...
Ashok KM It cannot be said that purpose of the Act is to ‘finish’ those industries altogether by imposing those kinds of penalties which are beyond their means, the bench observed. Observing that penal...
View ArticleSC Upholds State’s Power To Attach Properties Of ‘Defaulting’ Financial...
Ashok KM The statute is to protect the interest of innocent investors and to curb the malady of financial swindlers and to deal with such problems effectively, the bench said. The Supreme Court, in...
View ArticleSC Sets Aside Election Of People Party Of Arunachal’s Kameng Dolo [Read...
Apoorva MandhaniIn a major blow to People Party of Arunachal (PPA), the Apex Court recently upheld the declaration of the 2014 election of MLA Kameng Dolo as void under Representation of the People’s...
View Article[Day-5] Triple Talaq A Dying Practice,This Exercise May Revive It: AIMPLB...
In concluding remarks, senior advocate Kapil Sibal for AIMPLB compared Muslim community to “ small birds on which the Golden Eagle preys” and said the “community's nests must have the protection of...
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