Category Archives: Current Affairs

Abhay Kumar Gupta, a law intern with an advocate practising in the District Court, Rae Bareli started attending the court proceedings with the said advocate as a part of his training owing to the curiosity of the law intern (the petitioner). The learned advocate was representing a party at the Motor Accidents Claim Tribunal (MACT), […]

The In-Charge District and Sessions Judge, Madhubani wrote a letter on November 18, 2021, to the Patna High Court, wherein it spoke about a physical assault and verbal abuse on Shri Avinash Kumar, Additional District and Sessions Judge, Jhanjharpur in his chamber at 02:00 P.M. at the hands of Gopal Krishna, SHO and Abhimanyu Kumar […]

In the case of Saba Wani & Anr. v. Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir & Ors. (2021) W.P.No. 2269/ 2021, Justice Tashi Rabstan of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh heard the petitioner seeking protection and security from their relatives, wherein the petitioners had gotten contractually married out of free will […]

Law student Arnav Gulati filed a Public Interest Litigation through Advocate Siddharth Acharya to challenge the decision of the State Bank of India to prohibit UPI payments on cryptocurrency platforms, wherein the petition sought to allow UPI payments on the cryptocurrency platform WazirX. The petitioner contended that the platform is used by approximately 1 crore […]

The accused, Mr. Kaleem, was arrested in 2019 owing to the presence of 349.25 kilograms of Ganja on the accused; however, the learned counsel for the applicant, Shri Indrajeet Shukla, submitted before Justice Siddharth of the Allahabad High Court that the arrest of the accused was false owing to there being no public witness to […]

A two-judge bench of Justice D. N. Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh was hearing a couple of petitions regarding the legal recognition of same-sex marriages and marriages within the LGBTQIAP+ community under existing laws like the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, the Special Marriages Act, 1954 and the Foreign Marriage Act, 1969. Abhijit Iyer Mitra submitted […]

The informant, an employee of N. N. Jain Associates at Aman Chambers, Churni Road, Mumbai, left her office on September 18, 2021, at 05:45 P.M. and visited S. K. Patil Garden, wherein the informant sat on a bench in the garden whilst watching a lecture on the internet on her phone. The informant noticed the […]

Mr. Indrajit Dilip Patil approached Justice S. K. Shinde under the Criminal Appellate Jurisdiction of the Bombay High Court to seek pre-arrest protection under Section 14A of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, for allegedly committing a crime, registered with the Islampur Police Station, Sangli District. The appellants in the […]

In the case of Progressive Schools Association v. The State of Rajasthan & Anr. (2021) C.A. 1736/ 2021, a miscellaneous application (No. 1399/ 2021), the appellant asked for a clarification in an earlier judgement given by the court on May 03, 2021, in the case of Progressive Schools Association v. The State of Rajasthan & […]

The father of the victim appeared before the Additional Sessions Judge S. U. Baghele (ASJ) at the Sessions Court at Dindoshi (Borivali Division) to challenge the order passed by Magistrate’s Court, Mazgaon, on August 20, 2021, to detain the victim for a period of two years under Section 17, Sub-Section 4 of the Immoral Traffic […]