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Once Selection Process Culminates Into Document Verification, It Shouldn't Be Cancelled Citing Technical Infirmity: Madhya Pradesh HC

Live Law

The Indore Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that once any selection process for a job post is culminated into the process of document verification after selection of candidates, it should not be cancelled citing technical infirmities in the original Justice Subodh Abhyankar observed, “…the Government vacancies are already hard to come by, and even if they are …

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'Legal Aid Must Be Effective; Prosecutors Must Ensure Fair Trial' : Supreme Court Issues Guidelines To Legal Aid Lawyers, Prosecutors

Live Law

The Supreme Court today issued a slew of directions regarding the role of the Public Prosecutor and the appointment of Legal Aid Counsels in upholding procedural fairness and the fundamental rights of the accused in criminal trials. When an accused is not represented by an advocate, it is the duty of every Public Prosecutor to point out to the Court …

Supreme Court Legal Trial Court Legal Aid Duty Accused

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Disability Assessment: A Path to Inclusion and Justice

Hindustan Times

The Supreme Court's recent judgment in Omkar Ramachandra Gond v. Union of India is a landmark decision that addresses the issue of disability assessment in medical admissions. The judgment sets a precedent by holding that the mere existence of a benchmark disability is not sufficient to disqualify a person from pursuing medicine. It also emphasizes that the medical board must …

Law Education Healthcare Disability New Delhi

4 months ago

"Crossed All Limits Of Humanity": Bombay High Court Upholds Man's Conviction For Rape Of Mentally Challenged Girl

Live Law

Observing that he crossed all the limits of humanity, the Bombay High Court bench at Nagpur, recently upheld the conviction of a man for raping and impregnating a neighbourhood girl, who was suffering from Down syndrome.Single-judge Justice Govind Sanap noted from the material on record that there was sufficient evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubt that it was the appellant, …

Crime Court Victim Fir Appellant Dna Tests

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Who’s afraid of old age?

The Hindu

Many regard the onset of old age as a period of general physical and mental decline. Far from doing so, it actually gives one a chance to relax and enjoy one’s post-retirement life to the fullest, if one’s blessed with a fair degree of health. Spending quality time daily with one’s grandchildren, teaching them and helping out with their school …

Age Old Old Age

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Law believes a dying person’s last words to be honest, SC judgment on dying declarations as evidence

The Hindu

Persons on the verge of death rarely utter a lie and their last words are believed to have “greater acceptability” in the eyes of law, the Supreme Court has said in a judgment. “There is no absolute rule of law that a dying declaration cannot form the sole basis of conviction unless it is corroborated,” Justice Bhuyan referred to precedents. …

Law Court Man Declaration Dying Justice Bhuyan Bhuyan

10 months, 1 week ago

Madras High Court directs T.N. Govt to follow property guideline values reduced by 33% in 2017 until next revision

The Hindu

The Madras High Court has nullified a decision taken by the Inspector General of Registration on March 30, 2023 to collect stamp duty and registration charges on the basis of guideline value fixed for immovable properties in 2012 without following a decision taken in 2017 to reduce those values by 33% A Division Bench of Justices S.M. The Bench held …

Values State Value Madras High Guideline Value

1 year ago

Forest department on high alert as tiger sightings trigger caution in Ayyankunnu

The Hindu

The Forest department has initiated heightened surveillance and issued warnings following reported sightings of a tiger at Palathumkadavu in Ayyankunnu panchayat near the Kottiyoor Wildlife Sanctuary. Sunny Joseph, MLA, and district panchayat vice president Binoy Kurian urged the Divisional Forest Officer and Kottiyoor ranger to take quick action to allay fears of local people. 15-member team A 15-member forest guard …

Tiger Forest Forest Department Rubber Tapping Kottiyoor

1 year ago

MREAT orders coercive action against developer for failure to comply with refund order

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: Maharashtra Real Estate Appellate Tribunal has directed the suburban collector to attach and auction immovable properties and bank accounts belonging to Krishna Developers Pvt Ltd after the developer failed to comply with its order for refund with interest granted to a homebuyer from one of its projects. During the December 21 hearing, advocate Pooja Gaikwad, appearing for the developer, …

Order Home Buyers Interest Tribunal Date Maharera Rera

1 year, 2 months ago

NDPS Act | Calcutta High Court Suspends Conviction Of Four, Cites Infirmities In Investigation & Violations Of Mandatory Statutory Provisions

Live Law

The Calcutta High Court has recently suspended the convictions and 15-year prison sentences of four persons under the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act, for the alleged possession of commercial quantities of cannabis. The infirmities in the investigation and the violations of the mandatory provisions, dealt above, including of section 42, 52-A of the NDPS Act read with section 100 …

Investigation Court Search Case State Officer Act

1 year, 2 months ago

Default Bail: The Infirmities Noted In Section 187 Of The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Live Law

“Section 167: Procedure when investigation cannot be completed in twenty-four hours Whenever any person is arrested and detained in custody, and it appears that the investigation cannot be completed within the period of twenty-four hours fixed by Section 57, and there are grounds for believing that the accusation or information is well-founded, the officer in charge of the police station …

Investigation Bail Custody Order Case Accused Person

1 year, 2 months ago

Punjab MC polls: HC terms delimitation exercise at three civic bodies illegal

Hindustan Times

The Punjab and Haryana high court has declared the delimitation exercise in the municipal corporation, Phagwara, and municipal councils of Dera Baba Nanak and Dharamkot illegal and has set aside the state government notifications for the same. The respondents have completely departed from the procedure prescribed under the Rules of 1972 by creating tailor-made wards only suitable to a few …

Exercise Election Municipal Delimitation Polls Hc

1 year, 3 months ago

NCLAT Chennai: Not Open To NCLT To Reject Withdrawl Application U/S 12A, Where 90% Voting Share Of CoC Exists

Live Law

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, Chennai Bench comprising of Justice M. Venugopal and Shreesha Merla dismissed the appeal filed in Mayuras Industrial Services vs. S R Shriraam Shekher & Anr. Background Facts: The RP had filed an application seeking an order of withdrawal of the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process resting upon the Resolution passed by the Committee of Creditors …

Application Order Tribunal Nclt Withdrawal Nclat Code

1 year, 6 months ago

INDIA, THIS SIDE | Putting the useless to use: The divisive politics of the word ‘Hindutva’

The Hindu

Published : Jul 13, 2023 11:00 IST - 8 MINS READ Some four decades ago, an American academic who was working on a book with me expressed his desire to “do something” for the marginalised communities in India. I went about trying to find out how people responded to the Hindutva idea of “nationality”, I tried simplifying the Sanskrit terms …

India Constitution Gujarat Village Savarkar Asked Idea

1 year, 6 months ago

BJP divide and fool may boomerang

New Indian Express

How would the Pawar Play affect the Congress party? It is perhaps for the first time after almost a decade that it is sitting pretty since the BJP’s focus has shifted to small parties, which had been the Grand Old Party’s nemesis in the past. Since the BJP is unable to wean away any of its leaders in the poll-bound …

Bjp

1 year, 8 months ago

The caste imperative: The Hindu Editorial on the subject of an updated caste census

The Hindu

With the Congress party joining the chorus for an updated caste census, there seems to be an emerging consensus among the political opposition on the need for this exercise. While the parties committed to reservations in the northern belt — the Samajwadi Party and the Rashtriya Janata Dal in particular — have made this demand as a reaction to the …

Data Caste Census

1 year, 9 months ago

2019 Jamia violence: Sharjeel Imam, others to face rioting charges as Delhi HC partially reverses discharge order

India Today

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday partially overturned a trial court order discharging all 11 accused in the 2019 Jamia violence case. The high court’s order was in response to a plea by Delhi Police challenging a trial court's order, which it called “perverse” and “unsustainable in law”. The trial court had, in its February 4 order, discharged 11 people …

Delhi Court Order Case Imam Sharjeel Imam

1 year, 9 months ago

1984 riots case: No reason given by SIT on plea to cancel bail, Sajjan Kumar to HC

Hindustan Times

Former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar Tuesday told the Delhi high court that no reason has been given by the Special Investigation Team for seeking to cancel the bail granted to him in a rioting and murder case arising from the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in which the trial is continuing. Kumar is already serving a life term in another murder case …

Trial Court Order Case Sit Kumar No Reason

1 year, 10 months ago

Delhi court sets aside discharge of Congress’s Asif Mohammad Khan in 2010 case

Hindustan Times

Delhi’s Rouse Avenue court has allowed a revision petition against an additional chief metropolitan magistrate ’s order in October discharging former Congress lawmaker Asif Mohammad Khan and others in a 2010 case related to rioting and manhandling of police personnel. Khan and his supporters allegedly threw stones at the Jamia Nagar police station while seeking the filing of a case …

Case Khan

2 years, 2 months ago

TS misusing PD Act, even after SC strictures: Raja Singhâ€™s counsel

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: A division bench of Telangana High Court, comprising A. Abhishek Reddy and J. Sridevi, on Monday heard the petition that challenged invoking of Preventive Detention Act against legislator T. Raja Singh. Senior counsel L. Ravichander, representing T. Usharani, wife of Raja Singh, objected to the contentions of the state government and the police on slapping the PD Act against …

Telangana State Singh Raja Singh Pd Act Strictures Raja

2 years, 2 months ago

Limits of pleasure: The Hindu Editorial on Kerala Governor-government spat

The Hindu

Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan has declared that he is withdrawing his pleasure as far as Finance Minister K.N. In other words, Mr. Khan wants Mr. Balagopal dismissed for remarks that he sees as seditious, undermining national unity and stoking regionalism. It is difficult to agree with the Governor’s assessment that an observation that those who had seen only universities …

Kerala Minister Khan

2 years, 4 months ago

Making Parliament function effectively

Hindustan Times

After a series of acrimonious sessions and hostility between the government and Opposition benches, Parliament authorities and functionaries are said to be mulling ways to check the use of posters and curb disruptions that have taken a toll on the productivity of both Houses. In recent decades, Parliament’s primary functions — scrutiny of draft laws and discussion of key issues …

Parliament

2 years, 5 months ago

The many infirmities of drugs and medical devices bill

Live Mint

The new Drugs, Medical Devices and Cosmetics Bill 2022—proposed replacement for the pre-Independence Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940—is a step forward in making the law more contemporary but still falls short of what is required. Recognising medical devices as a separate category in its own right is welcome—till now, it has been regulated on par with drugs, vetted by the …

Law Health India Medical Drugs Data Medical Devices

2 years, 5 months ago

Examining the defection laws

Hindustan Times

A party whose leader does not command the support of the majority of its members. The rebellion roiling the Shiv Sena represents a unique legal conundrum – one that seems to fall beyond the scope of the current defection laws. But the apex court may need to weigh in on whether the law needs to explicitly spell out what happens …

Court Defection Shiv Sena

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Once Selection Process Culminates Into Document Verification, It Shouldn't Be Cancelled Citing Technical Infirmity: Madhya Pradesh HC

'Legal Aid Must Be Effective; Prosecutors Must Ensure Fair Trial' : Supreme Court Issues Guidelines To Legal Aid Lawyers, Prosecutors

Disability Assessment: A Path to Inclusion and Justice

"Crossed All Limits Of Humanity": Bombay High Court Upholds Man's Conviction For Rape Of Mentally Challenged Girl

Who’s afraid of old age?

Law believes a dying person’s last words to be honest, SC judgment on dying declarations as evidence

Madras High Court directs T.N. Govt to follow property guideline values reduced by 33% in 2017 until next revision

Forest department on high alert as tiger sightings trigger caution in Ayyankunnu

MREAT orders coercive action against developer for failure to comply with refund order

NDPS Act | Calcutta High Court Suspends Conviction Of Four, Cites Infirmities In Investigation & Violations Of Mandatory Statutory Provisions

Default Bail: The Infirmities Noted In Section 187 Of The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Punjab MC polls: HC terms delimitation exercise at three civic bodies illegal

NCLAT Chennai: Not Open To NCLT To Reject Withdrawl Application U/S 12A, Where 90% Voting Share Of CoC Exists

INDIA, THIS SIDE | Putting the useless to use: The divisive politics of the word ‘Hindutva’

BJP divide and fool may boomerang

The caste imperative: The Hindu Editorial on the subject of an updated caste census

2019 Jamia violence: Sharjeel Imam, others to face rioting charges as Delhi HC partially reverses discharge order

1984 riots case: No reason given by SIT on plea to cancel bail, Sajjan Kumar to HC

Delhi court sets aside discharge of Congress’s Asif Mohammad Khan in 2010 case

TS misusing PD Act, even after SC strictures: Raja Singhâ€™s counsel

Limits of pleasure: The Hindu Editorial on Kerala Governor-government spat

Making Parliament function effectively

The many infirmities of drugs and medical devices bill

Examining the defection laws