Legal Articles Ayurveda Practitioners Aren’t Entitled to Payment on Par With Allopathy Doctors: SC April 28, 2023 / April 28, 2023 | Leave a Comment Saying that the apex court does not mean to compare the two systems, it said that allopathy doctors perform trauma and emergency care, in addition to surgeries and thus their work was not equal to indigenous medicine practitioners. The Supreme Court has said that doctors of indigenous medicine cannot be entitled to pay equal to […] Read more » Ayurveda Practitioners Aren't Entitled to Payment on Par With Allopathy Doctors
Legal Articles ‘Ignorant, Harmful’: Law Students Condemn Bar Council Resolution on Marriage Equality April 28, 2023 / April 28, 2023 | Leave a Comment “The BCI denies any role of fundamental rights in its Resolution, instead characterising marriage equality as a political decision. This shows their heinous indifference towards the reality of queer and trans persons living as second-class citizens in our country.” Student groups from 36 law colleges across the country have issued a statement condemning the Bar Council of […] Read more » Law Students Condemn Bar Council Resolution on Marriage Equality
Legal Articles Delhi HC Quashes DU Order That Debarred Student for Screening BBC Documentary on Modi April 28, 2023 / April 28, 2023 | Leave a Comment The Delhi high court on Thursday, April 27, set aside a Delhi University (DU) order that debarred a student for his alleged involvement in screening the banned BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his alleged involvement in 2002 Gujarat riots. “The court is unable to sustain the impugned order dated March 10, 2023. […] Read more » Debarred Student for Screening BBC Documentary on Modi
Legal Articles The Collegium System of Appointing Judges Is Close to a Technical Knockout April 28, 2023 / April 28, 2023 | Leave a Comment We are reliving those sordid days of judges being superseded, which prompted the resignation of several Supreme Court judges 50 years ago. But now, it is happening at the high court level. Frankly, I don’t know what to make of it, but it does seem to me that the collegium system of appointment of judges […] Read more » Collegium System of Appointing Judges
Legal Articles SC Raps Nagaland CM Rio For Violating Women’s Quota by Evading Polls April 21, 2023 / April 21, 2023 | Leave a Comment Calling the Nagaland government’s recent action to evade the urban local body (ULB) elections in the state an “ingenious method”, the Supreme Court has issued a contempt notice to state Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio for not honouring its order. The apex court has warned that if those elections are not held as per the constitutional […] Read more »
Legal Articles Akhil Gogoi: SC Confirms HC’s Quashing of Discharge But Grants Bail During Pendency of Trial April 21, 2023 / April 21, 2023 | Leave a Comment The Gauhati high court had held that the trial court had not given the National Investigation Agency sufficient time to contest Gogoi’s discharge. The Supreme Court on Tuesday, April 18, confirmed all aspects of the Gauhati high court’s decision to set aside a trial court’s discharge of Akhil Gogoi under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. […] Read more » Akhil Gogoi
Legal Articles Gujarat Court Acquits All Accused in 2002 Naroda Gam Riots Case April 21, 2023 / April 21, 2023 | Leave a Comment Nobody knows who killed the 11 people during the communal riots in Naroda Gam in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. That is because on April 20, Thursday, 21 years after the massacre, all accused, including former Bharatiya Janata Party minister in Gujarat, Maya Kodnani, and former Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi, have been acquitted in […] Read more » 2002 Naroda Gam Riots Case
Legal Articles Assam, Arunachal Pradesh Sign Agreement to End Decades-Old Border Dispute April 21, 2023 / April 21, 2023 | Leave a Comment The governments of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh have signed an agreement to resolve the decades-old border dispute between the two states. The agreement was signed by the two states’ chief ministers – Himanta Biswa Sarma and Pema Khandu – in New Delhi in the presence of Union home minister Amit Shah. According to NDTV, officials […] Read more »
Legal Articles Bail Under UAPA: Different Supreme Court Benches, Vastly Different Rulings April 20, 2023 / April 20, 2023 | Leave a Comment Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code, no person accused of an offence punishable under Chapters IV and VI of this Act shall, if in custody, be released on bail or on his own bond unless the Public Prosecutor has been given an opportunity of being heard on the application for such release: Provided that such […] Read more » Bail Under UAPA
Legal Articles Marriage Equality Hearings: ‘We Aren’t Asking For a New Right,’ Petitioners Tell Supreme Court April 20, 2023 / April 20, 2023 | Leave a Comment The second day of the hearing before the constitution bench of the Supreme Court on petitions seeking recognition of same-sex marriages began with the Solicitor General, Tushar Mehta, disclosing that the Union government has written to the Chief Secretaries of all the States and Union Territories about the hearing of the case, and making a […] Read more » Marriage Equality Hearings
