Candidates In Lok Sabha Election Must Declare 5 Years Income Tax Returns, Foreign Assets [Read Notification]

The candidates in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls will have to declare the income tax returns of past five years and details of foreign assets held by them, as per the Conduct of Election(Amendment) Rules 2019 notified by the Ministry of Law and Justice yesterday.The Rules are notified in exercise of powers under Section 169 read with 33 of the Representation of People Act 1951. The...

Delhi HC Grants Protection To Runaway Couple, Asks Them To Take Joint Mediclaim Policy [Read Order]

Providing protection to a runaway couple, the Delhi High Court recently also directed the husband to take a joint mediclaim policy of Rs. 5 lakh for the couple. In its order, Justice Najmi Waziri noted, "Petitioner no. 2 undertakes to subscribe to a mediclaim policy of Rs. 5 lacs for himself and his wife-petitioner no. 1. The policy shall be kept alive at least for the duration of the...

Civil Suit In Relation To Land Which Is Subject To Ceiling Proceedings Under Urban Land Ceiling Act Not Maintainable: SC [Read Judgment]

“The jurisdiction of the Civil Courts to try the civil Suits with respect to the lands, which were subjected to ceiling proceedings under the Act, is impliedly barred, since the Act excludes the jurisdiction of the Civil Court.”

Patna HC Upheld A Conviction That Wasn't: SC Remands Case For Re-Hearing [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court, on Monday, set aside a Patna High Court judgment that upheld a conviction that wasn't. To elaborate, the Trial court had convicted only one out of five accused under Section 302 IPC in a murder case. The other four were convicted for commission of offence under Section 27 of the Arms Act. In the appeal filed by all the accused against respective convictions, the...

EVM Is An 'Information' Under RTI Act: CIC [Read Order]

Electronic Voting Machine is an 'information' under the Right to Information Act, the Central Information Commission has held. Chief Information Commissioner Sudhir Bhargava held thus in an appeal filed by Razaak K Haidar, who had filed an RTI application before the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO), Election Commission of India (ECI), New Delhi, seeking an Electronic...

Priya Ramani Gets Bail In MJ Akbar's Criminal Defamation Case

Journalist Priya Ramani appeared today in the Patiala House Court in the criminal defamation case filed by former Union Minister M J Akbar.The Additional Chief Metrapolitan Magistrate released her on bail and has fixed the next date of hearing as April 8.The cause for the complaint is an article published by Priya Ramani last October during the #MeToo campaign, accusing that Akbar had...

Law On Reels : 'Shahid' - Martyr For Justice

His experiences do not make him bitter; rather, they build in him empathy for similarly placed victims

Incompetency Of Lawyers Affecting Administration Of Justice? Gujarat HC Registers Suo Motu PIL; Issue Notice To BCI

"It is needless to say that the reputation of legal profession is linked with the confidence and trust of the public at large, as to how public views the administration of justice."

The First Line of Defence

The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Imphal East – Nigthoujam Lanleima on February 19 – granted bail to Veewon Thokchom, a former student of Ambedkar University, in a sedition case. Thokchom had written, in a Facebook post, that:Indefinite curfew imposed in Manipur. Internet banned for five days. All cable networks asked not to cover any speech or footage of the protests. High possibility that CAB (Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019) will be passed today at Rajya Sabha. Manipur once burned down the...

Only Advocates Can Plead And Argue On Behalf Of Litigants Before Courts: Calcutta HC [Read Order]

"Acting and appearing for another will not include a right to plead or argue before a court of law."

RCOM v. Edelweiss: Bombay HC Denies Relief To Anil Ambani, Says Plaintiff's Stand 'Smacks Of Deceit' [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court recently refused ad-interim relief sought by Anil Ambani, chairman of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, in a commercial suit filed by Reliance Project Ventures and Management Pvt Ltd and made some sharp observations against the plaintiff. Justice KR Shriram observed that the stand taken by the plaintiff "smacks of deceit" and that there was an attempt on part of...

Leprosy No More Ground For Divorce : Personal Laws (Amendment) Act 2019 Notified

The Central Government yesterday notified the Personal Laws(Amendment) Act 2019, to remove leprosy as a ground for divorce.To this end, it amends five Acts: (i) the Divorce Act, 1869, (ii) the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act, 1939, (iii) the Special Marriage Act, 1954, (iv) the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, and (v) the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956. The Amendment Bill proposes to...