Farmers' Suicide : After High Court Nudge, Karnataka Govt Includes Borrowers From Private Lenders In Compensation Scheme

The State Government on Tuesday informed the Karnataka High Court that it has now decided to compensate families of those farmers who committed suicide for failure to repay loans taken from private money lenders who are licensed. The state government placed on record of the court its order dated July 8 by which it stated that "If a farmer has taken loan from licensed money lender and...

Forced Deduction From Pension To CM's Relief Fund Not Permissible : Kerala High Court

Contribution to Chief Minister's Relief Fund can't be a matter of compulsion or forced compliance, the High Court held.

Ghaziabad FIR: Karnataka High Court Defers Order In Twitter India Head's Challenge To UP Police Notice Till July 20

The Karnataka High Court has deferred pronouncement of its order in the petition filed by the Managing Director of Twitter Communications India Private Ltd(TCIPL), challenging the notice issued to him under Section 41A of the Code of Criminal Procedure in the Ghaziabad FIR.Justice G. Narendar stated that he will dictate the order next week, on July 20, after going through the judgements on...

Misconception About The Status Of Article 370

There is a general misunderstanding and misconception about the status of Article370. This misconception pervades all over including Kashmir. Article 370 does not impart "special status" to Jammu and Kashmir. It is a provision that only recognizes the special status conferred outside the Constitution of India. To get a better idea we have to first know what this so called special...

CM Advocates' Welfare Scheme Has Laudable Objective But Its Applicability To Only Delhi Residents Is Discriminatory: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court today ruled that the benefits of the Chief Minister's Advocates' Welfare Scheme have to be extended to all advocates registered with the Bar Council of Delhi, and are residing in the National Capital Region (NCR).Ruling thus, the Bench of Justice Prathiba Singh observed that the CM's Advocates' Welfare Scheme has a laudable objective, however its condition that it would...

Calcutta High Court Stays TDS Collection Under Section 194N Income Tax Act Till Sep 30

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday passed an interim order restraining the Income Tax Department from collecting Tax Deduction at Source (TDS) under section 194N of the Income Tax Act, 1961. Justice Md. Nizamuddin was adjudicating upon a plea challenging the constitutional validity of the provision which was inserted by the Finance Act, 2019 and became effective from September 1, 2019....

Is There A Fundamental Right To Drink Liquor? What Courts Have Held?

The Gujarat High Court recently reserved its order on the maintainability of a petition against the decades old liquor prohibition in the state. The challenge is made on the ground of emergence of the right to privacy in the year 2017, which the Petitioners argued was unavailable when the ban was first challenged in 1950. It is their primary contention that the right to...

UAPA Wrecking Lives : What Is The Human Cost?

It is high time that the human costs extracted by the unjust detentions under UAPA are calculated and accountability is fixed on those investigating officers who trapped innocents by misusing the statute.

People Receiving First Dose Of Covid-19 Vaccine Can't Wait Indefinitely For Second Dose After Interval Period Is Over: Tripura High Court

The Tripura High Court has observed that people who have received their first dose of Covid-19 vaccine, including both Covishield or Covaxin, cannot be made to wait indefinitely for receiving their second dose after the mandatory interval is over. It therefore asked the State administration to raise the number of vaccination doses.The observation came from a division bench comprising of...

Discrimination Based On Vaccination Status Is Violative of Fundamental Rights: Plea in Rajasthan High Court

The petition states that orders restricting access to public places and activities based on vaccination status is violative of fundamental rights.

Hathras Victim's Lawyers Call For Afresh Departmental Inquiry & Penal Charges Against Police Officer

In the Hathras Rape Case, the lawyers on behalf of the victim have called upon the Director-General of Police (Uttar Pradesh) on Saturday for afresh departmental inquiry against Circle Officer (Sadabad) Ram Shabd in conformity with the rule of law and principles of natural justice.Senior Advocate Vrinda Grover, through the representation, called upon to invoke penal laws for...

[TOMORROW AT 10 AM] LiveLaw Practitioners Series: "How To Contradict A Witness?" Part-II - By Justice Abraham Mathew

LiveLaw in association with AILU-Kollam is organizing a webinar under its "LiveLaw Practitioner Series" .Justice Abraham Mathew (Former Judge, High Court of Kerala) will speak on "How To Contradict A Witness? " PART-II.Mr BG Harindranath (Former Professor, National Judicial Academy) will moderate the session.The details of the webinar are as follows:Date & Time: July 10, 2021...