On Monday, the Supreme Court of India refused an interim stay on Patna High Court’s judgement that struck down the Bihar government’s law that increased reservations in the state from 50% to 65% in public employment and educational institutions. No interim relief.” Notably, the Bihar government has approached the top court to challenge the Patna High Court’s order dated 20th …
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Friday said it would hear on September 16 the pleas arising out of the Delhi High Court's split verdict on the issue of criminalisation of marital rape. Justice Rajiv Shakdher, who headed the division bench of the high court, had favoured striking down the marital rape exception and said it would be tragic if a …
The story so far: Earlier this week, a division bench of the Karnataka High Court comprising of Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and Justice Krishna S. Dixit delivered a judgment striking down major portions of the Karnataka Police Act, 2021, a new law that was introduced by the State government to ban online gambling and skill-based gaming platforms like rummy, …
