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SC Notice To Centre On Plea Challenging Ban On Sale Of Cattle For Slaughter
LiveLaw News NetworkThe Supreme Court today issued notice to the Centre on a petition challenging its May 25 notification, banning sale and purchase of cows and buffaloes at animal markets for...
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SC Issues Notice On An Appeal Against Delhi High Court’s Anti-Encroachment...
LiveLaw Research TeamThe Supreme Court’s Vacation Bench of Justices R.K.Agrawal and Deepak Gupta, on Wednesday, June 14, issued notices to respondents on an appeal against the Delhi High Court’s...
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Supreme Court To Get Four New Courtrooms, Waiting Areas And New SCBA...
Apoorva MandhaniThe Supreme Court will be getting four new Court rooms and new waiting areas on reopening, according to a letter addressed to the SCBA members by the SCBA President, Mr. Rupinder Singh...
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Law Ministry Highlights 40 Achievements Under Modi Rule
Prabhati Nayak MishraWith the Narendra Modi government celebrating the completion of three years in power at the Centre, the Ministry of Law and Justice has highlighted its 40 achievements, including...
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Former CJI Padma Vibhushan Justice P.N.Bhagwati Passes Away
LiveLaw News NetworkJustice P.N.Bhagwati, former Chief Justice of India, Padma Vibhushan and the judge who introduced the concept of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) and judicial activism in India has...
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Bid To Impeach Justice Nagarjuna Reddy Fails Again
Apoorva MandhaniFor the second time in six months, a motion for impeachment of Justice Nagarjuna Reddy of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana has failed. Nine of the 54 members of the Rajya...
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1993 Bombay Blast Case: 24 years Later Abu Salem, Mustafa Dossa And 4 Others...
Nitish Kashyap Special TADA Court has delivered its Judgment in the 1993 Bombay Bomb Blast Case Today. However, they have been held not guilty under Section 121 (waging, or attempting to wage war, or...
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Law Ministry Deliberates Ways To Reduce Government Litigation Accounting For...
Apoorva MandhaniIn a meeting held on Monday, the Law Ministry’s Department of Justice discussed ways by which pendency of cases can be reduced. The deliberations revealed that the Centre and the States...
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Aadhaar Mandatory For Opening Bank Accounts & For Financial Transactions...
Apoorva MandhaniThe Government has made quoting of Aadhaar mandatory for opening of bank accounts as well as for any financial transaction of ₹50,000 and above. Further, existing bank account holders...
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Gauhati HC Orders Reinstatement Of CRPF Constable Terminated For...
LiveLaw Research TeamIn a curious case which involves only determination of facts, the Centre appealed against a Gauhati High Court order directing it to reinstate a Central Reserve Police Force...
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All Establishments Should Publish Equal Opportunity Policy: Rights Of Persons...
Apoorva MandhaniThe Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment notified the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules, 2017 on Thursday. The Rules mandate each establishment to publish an equal...
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Justice C. Nagappan Appointed As Chairman Of TN State Law Commission
Apoorva MandhaniRetired Supreme Court Judge, Justice Chockalingam Nagappan has been appointed as the Chairman of Tamil Nadu’s reconstituted State Law Commission. The tenure of the last Law Commission...
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Should Universities Apply Reservations In Teaching Positions Department-Wise,...
LiveLaw Research TeamThe Vacation Bench of the Supreme Court, comprising Justices R.K.Agrawal and Sanjay Kishan Kaul, on Friday, June 16, issued notice returnable in four weeks, on an appeal against...
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Right To Sanitation A Fundamental Right: Himachal HC Directs State To Provide...
LiveLaw News NetworkHimachal Pradesh High Court has recently held that right to Sanitation has been now virtually accepted as constitutional right as fundamental rights like right to water, right to...
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Uncertainty Surrounds Law Officers’ Appointments As Government Leaves AG’s...
LiveLaw Research TeamPerhaps for the first time since India became the Republic, the post of Attorney General of India has been lying vacant for nearly five days, since June 12, as the outgoing AG,...
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5-Yr-Old Child Narrates Sexual Assault Details With The Help Of Baby Doll,...
Nitish KashyapEmbarrassed by the nature of questions asked during her cross-examination, a 5-year-old victim of sexual assault took the help of a baby doll that was given to her “in order to keep her...
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Patent Battle Over Lung Cancer Drug: SC Disposes Of Cipla’s Appeal Against...
LiveLaw Research TeamThe Supreme Court’s Vacation Bench of Justices R.K.Agrawal and Sanjay Kishan Kaul, on Friday, June 16, allowed the withdrawal of the Special Leave Petitions against the Delhi High...
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Petition Filed In Madras HC Challenging Tribunal Provisions Of Finance Act,...
Apoorva MandhaniThe High Court of Madras on Friday issued notice to the Central Government on a Petition challenging Sections 156 to 189 of the Finance Act, 2017 and the Tribunal, Appellate and other...
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BCCI A Public Authority, Bound To Disclose Information Under RTI Act: CIC...
Aasavri RaiCentral Information Commissioner, Prof. M Sridhar Acharyulu, in the case of Subhash Chandra Agrawal v. PIO, Department of Sports, declared the BCCI to be a public authority and directed the...
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President Rejects Mercy Petitions Of Five Death-Row Convicts In Two Days
LiveLaw Research TeamPresident Pranab Mukherjee rejected mercy petitions from five death-row convicts, on May 25 and 26. These are perhaps his last disposal of mercy petitions, before his term expires...
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