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2y ago
-By Ms. Kasturi Ritika (Adv.) and Mr. Shourajeet Chakravarty (Adv.).
THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH & ORS. V. BHERULAL**
S.L.P (C) 9217 of 2020
Coram: Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and
Justice Dinesh Maheshwari
Date of Judgment: October 15, 2020
Facts:
The State of Madhya Pradesh preferred a Special Leave Petition (“SLP”) before Hon’ble the Supreme Court of India (“SC/ Hon’ble Court”), however, the said SLP was filed with a delay of 663 days. The said SLP was accompanied by an application for condonation of delay stating that the reason for such an inordinate delay was “due to unavailability of ..read more
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2y ago
AUTHOR- AKANKSHA,GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY, AMRITSAR.
Petitioner - NALSA( National Legal Services Authority)
Respondents - UNION OF INDIA.
Dated -15 April 2014
INTRODUCTION
NALSA (National Legal Services Authority) vs Union of India is the landmark Judgement dated 15 April 2014 given by Supreme Court by the bench of judges consisting of Justice K. Radhakrishnan and A.K. Sikri.
National Legal Services Authority introduced under the Le ..read more
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2y ago
AUTHOR- ,Ankita Nandi, Kingston Law College.
Court – Supreme Court of India (Civil Appellate Jurisdiction)
Civil Appeal Nos. 9367-9369 of 2011
Citation – MANU/SC/0194/2020
Bench– Dr.Dhanunjaya Y Chandrachud, J and Hemant Gupta
Subject – Defence Law and Constitutional Law.
Date of Judgement – February 17th, 2020
Brief Facts of the Case
Ø In February 2003, a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) was instituted by Advocate Babita Puniya before the Delhi High Court asking for permanent commission for women cadets who were enlisted through the SSC in the military.
Ø Under the Strateg ..read more
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AUTHOR: BHAWNA SINGLA, GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY, AMRITSAR.
Facts
The 2008 Mumbai attack was a series of terrorist attacks that terrified and shook every citizen of the Nation. In November 2008, the attack covered a variety of places like the Taj Mahal Palace, the Taj hotel, the Oberoi Trident hotel, the Metro Theatre, and the Chhatrapati Shivaji terminus railway station. It was marked that 10 members of Lashkar-e-Toiba illegally landed in Mumbai city from Karachi via the Arabian sea for a fidayeen attack in India.
In this terrorist attack, Kasab who was a Pakistani national along with Ansari ..read more
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2y ago
AUTHOR- Kanchan, MDU Centre for Professional and Allied Studies, Gurugram.
Abstract
Vishaka judgment is one among the foremost gifted pieces of law the court has ever enacted in its history since its inception. Gender injustice and harassment is the commonest problem faced by women in most parts of the planet, but the condition of Indian women is disgusting.
Vishaka & others. V. The state of Rajasthan may be a case which deals with the evil of harassment of a woman at her workplace. Harassment means uninvited/unwelcome sexual favour or sexual gestures from one gender towards the oppos ..read more
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2y ago
AUTHOR- Jahnavi S Of School of Excellence in Law, TNDALU.
Writ Petition (C) No. 118 of 2016
(2017) 9 SCC 1
ABSTRACT
This case commentary provides an analysis of the case which took down a 1,400 years old practice with a 3:2 majority by a constitutional bench. Triple Talaq was a practice that made it possible for a Muslim husband to provide an instant and irrevocable divorce to his wife which was held unconstitutional. It had been held that the current practice isn’t a necessary part of the religion, violates Part III of the constitution, and thus cannot take shelter under Article 25 of the Con ..read more
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AUTHOR- JAGDEEP SINGH, GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY, AMRITSAR.
We live in 21st century still we are unable impede the evil of custodial death or violence , though there’s no precise definition provided for this term under the constitution of india, but it is explained as annihilation of an person or slaughtering that individual while he’s within the custody of the authorities such a scenario is termed as custodial death or violence
. When someone dies within the custody of the authorities such death is alluded as custodial death, it is classified into three broad categories: death in police custo ..read more
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AUTHOR-ASHUTOSH GUPTA, ICFAI LAW SCHOOL, HYDERABAD.
Need of uniformity in the personal laws governed by the religious communities subjecting to Succession and inheritance
Why India should adopt uniformity in matters ruled by the personal laws of the religious communities!!!
Abstract
By the above text you might have already understood that what are we gonna discuss today to elaborate,this research is carried out to provide an insight about the need of the hour for strict implementation of uniform civil code in India.Until now religion was the sole factor obstructing the government for implement ..read more