Category Archives: Current Affairs

In the case of Krishabh Kapoor v. Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (2021) C.A.No. 558/ 2021, Justice N. V. Anjaria  heard the petitioner, represented by Advocate Ronith Joy. The petitioner was a student of engineering at the Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, wherein a communication between the Academic Performance Review Committee and the […]

A two-judge divisional bench of Justice Ziyad Rahman and Justice Vinod K. Chandran was faced with the question of the declaration of a dying person in the case of Thankappan Achary v. The State of Kerala (2021) CRL. A. No. 480/ 2017 where the admissibility of Nemo Moriturus Praesumitur Mentire was questioned, wherein the case of […]

Asumal Harpalani was born in the year 1941 in the village of Bernai in present-day Pakistan, wherein he migrated to Ahmedabad, Gujarat after the Partition of British India; subsequently, he established his first ashram in 1972 in the town of Motera, Gujarat, along the banks of the Sabarmati river. Over the years, he had amassed […]

On July 04, 2014, Premdeep Nishikant Matlane married Bhavana in Akola. Shortly after the marriage, the couple relocated to Panjim, Goa till August 28, 2014, since the husband (the appellant) worked at the Panjim Bench of the Bombay High Court. Between August 15 and August 18, the couple celebrated their Honeymoon. Per the appellant, his […]

A woman from Ghazipur was allegedly raped by MP from the Bahujan Samaj Party in 2019, wherein the accused had been arrested in 2019 and has been placed in judicial custody for the last two years. In March 2021, the woman appealed to the Supreme Court of India to have her trial transferred from the […]

In July 2008, the Bombay High Court directed the respondent in the Public Interest Litigation of the case of Janhit Manch v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. (2008) W. P. No. 1325/ 2003 to lay down comprehensive guidelines at the National level for the immersion of idols and other pooja materials (including idols of […]

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Supreme Court of India resorted to the VIDYO application on mobile and desktop modalities for attending court hearings, wherein the Supreme Court issued a standard operating procedure for conducting hearings over VIDYO; additionally, the VIDYO platform was hoted on the servers of the National Data Centre of […]

National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore blocked the promotion of a semester 6 student (Year 3), Hruday P. B. to semester 7 (Year 4) for getting an ‘F’ grade in the subject of Child Rights Law in March 2020 owing to being awarded zero marks in the ‘project’ component of the subject due […]

On November 17, 2011, an alleged dealer (hereafter referred as “informant”) of Maruti Suzuki India Limited (hereafter referred to as “Maruti”) sent an e-mail to the Competition Commission of India to inform about the sales policy of Maruti, which allegedly violates not only the provisions of the Competition Act, 2002, but also the interests of […]

A Habeas Corpus petition was filed by the petitioner M. Kavin Thamizh to produce his lover, a 23-year-old woman named Revathi from the unlawful detention and confinement at the hands of the respondent, her father Ramakrishnan in the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court, wherein the same was adjudicated by Justice V. Bharathidasan and […]