Category Archives: Current Affairs

Last week the Mumbai Court in State v. Abrar Noor Mohd Khan, convicted a 25-year-old businessman for sexually harassing a minor girl by calling her “item”. The accused was being prosecuted for outraging her modesty after stalking, insulting, and having threatened her. The victim was a 16-year-old girl and the accused was a boy who […]

In Sri Venkateshwara Dental College And Hospital vs The State of Karnataka and Ors a writ petition was filed before the Karnataka High Court under article 226 and 227 of the constitution of India praying to issue a writ of mandamus directing Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA), to open the website/portal, to facilitate petitioners (students) to […]

A division bench of Justices Surya Kant and MM Sundresh were hearing an appeal challenging a decision made by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana wherein they reduced the compensation awarded by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT). [Gurpreet Kaur and Others v. United India Insurance Company and Others]. The husband of the appellant, […]

The Madras High Court on Friday, 30th September 2022 directed Food Safety Officials not to take the television crew along with them when they inspect the kitchens of restaurants and hotels and take samples to test the quality of food served there.  [Chennai Hotels Association v. State of Tamil Nadu] Instead, the court said, the […]

In the landmark Judgement, Supreme Court of India held that pre-litigation mediation under Section 12A of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015 is mandatory. Thus, any commercial suit instituted before a Commercial Court under the 2015 Act without first exhausting the remedy of pre-litigation mediations shall be rejected under Order VII Rule 11 of the Civil Procedure […]

In the landmark judgment delivered on Thursday, 29th September 2022, the Supreme Court ruled that unmarried women who are pregnant out of a consensual relationship are allowed to have abortions up to 24 weeks. A Bench of Justices DY Chandrachud, AS Bopanna, and JB Pardiwala held that Rule 3B(c) of the MTP Rules cannot be […]

In a Judgement delivered on 12th September 2022, Supreme Court held that lodging the Juveniles in adult prison amounted to deprivation of their personal liberty. [Vinod Katara vs State of UP]. “There can be no cavil in saying that lodging juveniles in adult prisons amounts to deprivation of their personal liberty on multiple aspects. Once […]

Nikhil Chawla, a man running a popular online platform called ‘COOK STUDIO’ engaged in blogging and production of videos relating to cooking, had filed a trademark suit against ‘The Coca Cola Company which is the owner of the famous music platform Coke Studio. In the Delhi HC bench, Justice Pratibha M Singh had ordered both […]

Madras Highcourt recently directed a man booked for drunken driving to distribute pamphlets “against Drunken Driving” every day for the next two weeks at the Adyar L.B. Road junction. as a condition for granting conditional bail. (Deepan vs State). While granting bail to the accused, Justice AD Jagadish Chandira directed the accused to report to […]

Minor UP boy wants to donate the organ to save his Father’s life, Files plea in SC. A 17-year-old boy from UP filed a writ petition on Friday 9th September 2022 in Supreme Court seeking permission to donate his liver to his critically ill father. [Parthsarthi Bajaj vs Health Secretary and anr]. The matter was […]