Legal Articles CJI Very Commendably Applauds Advocate Nizam Pasha For Suggestions To Mitigate Manipur Situation July 14, 2023 / July 14, 2023 by Sanjeev Sirohi | Leave a Comment Most of us are certainly fully seized of the huge escalating violence in Manipur that had spiralled virtually out of control thus virtually stealing the entire limelight in international and national news headlines for entirely wrong reasons which was just not warranted. As we know fully well that […] Read more »
Legal Articles Police Can Register FIR For Non-Payment Of Maintenance As It Amounts To Economic Abuse, Breach Of Protection Order Under DV Act : Madras HC July 14, 2023 / July 14, 2023 by Sanjeev Sirohi | Leave a Comment While ruling on a most significant legal point pertaining directly to the maintenance of women, the Madras High Court in a most robust, rational and remarkable judgment titled S Amalraj Vs State and Another in Crl.O.P.(MD)No.15704 of 2018 and Crl.M.P.(MD)Nos.6953 & 6954 of 2018 and cited in 2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 191 that […] Read more » Madras HC
Legal Articles Places of Worship Act: Supreme Court gives Centre time till October 31 to respond July 11, 2023 / July 11, 2023 by Bharat Bhushan | Leave a Comment A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud also clarified that the mere pendency of the case before them doesn’t mean that the Places of worship Act has been stayed. The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave an extension for the eighth time to the Centre to file its counter affidavit on a […] Read more »
Legal Articles Just One HC Bench So Close To Allahabad Is Most Bizarre July 10, 2023 / July 10, 2023 by Sanjeev Sirohi | Leave a Comment It is ‘shockingly bizarre’ that UP has maximum pending cases among all States that is more than 10 lakhs in High Courts and about a crore in lower courts and has maximum population and still has just one High Court Bench only so close […] Read more »
Legal Articles Citizens Have Right To Criticize Govt Policies But Can’t Insult Constitutional Functionaries : Karnataka HC July 10, 2023 / July 10, 2023 by Sanjeev Sirohi | Leave a Comment It would be extremely vital to pay unremitting and singular attention to what the Karnataka High Court in a most learned, laudable, landmark and latest judgment titled Allauddin & Others vs State of Karnataka & Anr in CRL.P No. 200126 […] Read more » Karnataka HC
Legal Articles Bombay HC Asks Centre Why Fact Check Unit Needed When PIB Exists July 7, 2023 / July 7, 2023 by Bharat Bhushan | Leave a Comment The Bombay high court on Thursday, July 7, asked if the mechanism of the Press Information Bureau (PIB), which has been in existence for long, is so inadequate that it requires the introduction of a Fact Check Unit (FCU). The division bench of Justices Gautam S. Patel and Neela K. Gokhale began the final hearing […] Read more »
Legal Articles Gujarat HC Refuses to Stay Rahul Gandhi’s Conviction, Sentence in Defamation Case July 7, 2023 / July 7, 2023 by Bharat Bhushan | Leave a Comment New Delhi: The Gujarat high court on Friday (July 7) refused to stay the conviction of and two-year sentence given to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case. The sentence – the maximum possible for defamation – resulted in Gandhi’s disqualification from the Lok Sabha. Justice Hemant Prachchhak said that no injustice would be caused […] Read more »
Legal Articles Penetrative Sexual Assault Against Child Below 12 Years Punishable As ‘Aggavated Sexual Assault’ : SC July 7, 2023 / July 7, 2023 by Sanjeev Sirohi | Leave a Comment “3. Tersely put, the case of the prosecution is that the complainant XYZ lodged an F.I.R. against the appellant Sonu Kushwaha on 26.03.2016 at Chirgaon, District Jhansi stating therein that on 22.03.2016, at about 05:00 hours in the evening, appellant Sonu Kushwaha came to complainant’s house and took his son aged about 10 years in […] Read more » SC
Legal Articles “Sentencing Is Inexplicable” : SC On HC Decision To Award Different Jail Terms To Convicts For Same Offence July 6, 2023 / July 6, 2023 by Sanjeev Sirohi | Leave a Comment While being terribly astonished at the incongruous manner in which the High Court delivered different jail terms to convicts for the same offence, the Apex Court in a most learned, laudable, landmark and latest judgment titled Uggarsain vs The State of Haryana & […] Read more »
Legal Articles SC Deprecates Practice Of Imposing Pre-Condition Of Paying Alleged Cheated Amount To Get Anticipatory Bail July 6, 2023 / July 6, 2023 by Sanjeev Sirohi | Leave a Comment It is most significant to observe right at the outset that the Supreme Court in a most learned, laudable, landmark and latest judgment titled Ramesh Kumar v. The State of NCT of Delhi in Criminal Appeal No. of 2023 (Arising out of SLP (Crl.) No. 2358 of 2023) that was […] Read more »