Right to privacy is a Fundamental Right: SC
The Supreme Court has ruled right to privacy is intrinsic to the entire fundamental rights chapter of the Constitution. The court...
Right to access Internet cannot be curtailed, says SC
The Supreme Court has clarified that a general prohibition on all online content about pre-natal sex determination will curtail the funda...
All you know about Lok Adalat
NALSA along with other Legal Services Institutions conducts Lok Adalats. Lok Adalat is one of the alternative dispute redressal mechanis...
T.N.’s new jallikattu law faces challenge in Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on January 25 agreed to hear a plea by the Animal Welfare Board of India, Compassion Unlimited Plus Action and animal ri...
Decide on safety sealing in six months: HC to Centre
The Bombay High Court has given the Union government six months’ time to take a decision on making safety sealing mandatory for healthcare...
Even nil vacancies won’t cut backlog: Report
A study ordered by the Supreme Court shows that more judges in the High Courts, or even filling all the vacancies in them, does not necess...
Son has no legal right in parents’ house, can stay at their mercy: HC
In a significant move, the Delhi High Court has ruled that a son cannot claim a right to live in the self-acquired house of his parents an...
Constitution Bench declines to go into Hindutva verdict
The Supreme Court has declined social activist Teesta Setalvad’s plea to check the “devastating consequences” of its 1995 judgment that Hi...
Supreme Court on Cauvery Water Management Board.
The Supreme Court has directed the Centre to constitute a Cauvery Water Management Board.
Online search engines should check sex determination ads, says Supreme Court
Noting that online search engines Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are under an “obligation” to check pre-natal sex determination advertisement...
SC moves away from death penalty
The Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of a youth for raping and killing a seven-year-old girl but awarded him 25 year jail t...
National security best left to govt., Army: SC
Supreme Court refused to entertain a petition to direct the government to stop funding separatist groups in Jammu and Kashmir.
End sterilisation camps, says Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has directed the Centre to finalise the National Health Policy by December 31, 2016, and end mass sterilisation camps, s...
Unaccounted flow of funds to NGOs a ‘major problem’: SC
Startled by the number of NGOs operating in India, Supreme Court has decided to lay down a legal framework to regulate their funding, spen...
Centre blames High Courts for vacancies
The government has blamed the judiciary for delaying the process of judicial appointments. The government recently told the Supreme Court ...
Approved strength of judges enough to end backlog: Law panel head
Law Commission of India Chairman and former Supreme Court judge Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan has said “working judges”, and not increasing...
SC to lay down law on LG’s power
The Supreme Court has agreed to lay down the law on whether the Lieutenant Governor (LG) of Delhi can unilaterally administer the Nationa...
Delhi HC quashes appointment of 21 AAP MLAs as Parliamentary Secretaries
The Delhi High Court has set aside the AAP government’s order appointing 21 MLAs as Parliamentary Secretaries since it lacked the approval...
Publish FIRs online within 24 hours: SC
The Supreme Court has ordered States and Union Territories to upload, on police or government websites, First Information Reports (FIRs) w...
Sedition charges can’t be slapped for criticising government, clarifies Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has clarified that sedition charges cannot be brought against a person merely for raising a voice against the government...
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