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Defamation Case Against Kangana Ranaut For Tweet Saying Farmers Protester Available On Rs 100 Hire
A criminal defamation suit has been filed against Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut over her tweet saying that a lady farmer joined farmers protests after taking money. The 73-yr-old lady farmer, Mahinder Kaur, has moved the Magistrate Court, Bhatinda, seeking initiation of criminal proceedings against Ranaut for making false imputations that she is available for hire at protesting...
Two Finger Test On Rape Victims Unconstitutional,Violates Personal Dignity Of Woman, Holds Lahore High Court, Quotes Indian Precedents
The Lahore High Court has held that two finger test and the hymen test carried out for the purposes of ascertaining the virginity of a female victim of rape or sexual abuse is unconstitutional.The court held that such tests are unscientific having no medical basis and also offends the personal dignity of the female victim.Justice Ayesha A. Malik held that such tests are discriminatory and...
Plea In Delhi High Court Against Detention Of Under Trial Prisoners Despite Completion Of Half Of Their Maximum Sentence
A writ petition has been filed before the Delhi High Court seeking implementation of S. 436A of CrPC, for release of those under trial prisoners who are facing trial under and have spent half of their maximum sentence in lower offences.A Division Bench headed by Chief Justice DN Patel has issued notice in the Petition. Section 436A of the Code prescribes the maximum period for which...
Kerala High Court Sets Aside Bail Granted To Thwaha Fasal In UAPA Case Over Alleged Maoist Links; Allan's Bail Not Cancelled
The Kerala High Court on Monday set aside the order passed by by Special NIA Court Kochi granting bail to Thwaha Fasal in a UAPA case for alleged Maoist links.The High Court however has not cancelled the bail granted to Allan Shuhaib, who was also arrested along with Thwaha in November 2019.A division bench comprising Justices A Hariprasad and K Haripal allowed the appeal filed by the...
'Judicial Officers Not Having Experience At Bar Mostly Found To Be Incapable' : BCI To Move SC For Mandatory Practical Experience For Judicial Service
The Bar Council of India has said that it will file an application in the Supreme Court seeking modification of the order which allowed fresh law graduates to become judicial officers. It said that the BCI and the State Bar Councils are "strongly in favour" of a 3 year minimum experience at the bar for being considered eligible to sit for judicial service exam."Judicial officers not...
Bina Modi's Anti-Arbitration Injunction Suit Against Her Son Lalit Modi Maintainable : Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has held that the anti-arbitration injunction suit filed by late industrialist KK Modi's wife Bina Modi against her son Lalit Modi is maintainable. The suit was filed seeking to restrain the arbitration proceedings initiated by Lalit Modi in Singapore over property disputes in the family. In March, a single bench of Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw had dismissed the suits filed...
'You Have The Right To Remain Silent'- Story Behind Miranda Rights
Anyone interested in Hollywood crime thrillers or drama, has at least once come across a scene where an arrest is being made by the police. The officer while carrying out the arrest mandatorily utters the following words, "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand the rights I have just read to you? With...
Significant Kerala High Court Judgments Of 2020
The Kerala High Court pronounced several significant verdicts in 2020. Here is an annual round-up.Transfer Deed Can Be Declared Void U/s 23 Senior Citizens Act Only If It Expressly Contains Condition To Provide Basic Amenities/Physical Needs To Senior Citizen[Subhashini vs. District Collector]A bench comprising Justices K.Vinod Chandran, VG Arun and TR Ravi held that the condition as...
Challenges To Our Democracy And The Need To Preserve Human Rights
In his book "The Age Rights" (1990), Prof. Louis Henkin, a celebrated scholar of International law had claimed that "Human rights is the idea of our time, the only political – moral idea that has received universal acceptance". Viewed in the light of several International Treaties and democratic Constitutions which recognize the inviolability of human rights, the claim is valid. But whether democracies across the world have infact delivered upon the promise of a world order founded on...
RTI Application Not To Be Rejected Merely For Not Annexing Proof Of Citizenship: CIC
The Central Information Commission has observed that an RTI application cannot be rejected merely for not annexing proof of identity of the applicant.The authority can demand such proof only in rarest of rare case in which there is doubt about the citizenship status of the applicant, the Commission observed.R K Malik, had filed an RTI application before Central Public Information...
District Magistrate Who Was Allegedly Responsible For Post-Midnight Cremation Of Hathras Victim, Transferred By UP Govt
The Uttar Pradesh Government on Thursday (31st December) transferred, along with 16 other IAS officers, Hathras District Magistrate Praveen Kumar Laxkar (who was allegedly responsible for past-midnight cremation of Hathras Rape Voctim) to Mirzapur in the same capacity. Ramesh Ranjan, the Joint managing director of UP Jal Nigam, has been made the new District Magistrate...