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Supreme Court permits passive euthanasia under stringent safeguards
The judgment in the case of Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug v. Union of India (2011), passed by the Supreme Court of India, ex...
Money Laundering : A Magistrate taking cognizance of an offence must provide an opportunity of hearing before taking cognizance
Supreme Court sets aside cognizance in Money Laundering case due to procedural non-compliance. Apex Court emphasized man...
Voluntary Euthanasia and Non Voluntary Euthanasia
The Supreme Court of India’s landmark judgment in Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug v. Union of India (2011) offers a comprehens...
Legislature Cannot Ignore Supreme Court Verdicts - A Constitutional Imperative
The Madras Bar Association judgment is a clarion call for the Legislature to respect Supreme Court verdicts and uphold c...
Even for a cognizable offense, an arrest is not mandatory : Understanding Satender Antil's case
Supreme Court simplified and redefined law of arrest and bail for Judicial Officers, Advocates and Police Officers in Sa...
Mesne Profit : Compensation On Account Of Unauthorized Holding
The landlord is entitled to reasonable compensation from the date of the eviction order i.e. the date when the tenant's ...
Order 2 Rule 2 - A Bar To Splitting of Evil
Unless the defendant pleads a bar of under Order 2 Rule 2 of the Code, and an issue is framed on that bar to the suit, t...
Jamabandi - A Document Of Title
The agriculturist in Punjab still feel satisfied when mutation is sanctioned in their favour in the revenue record. This...
Supreme Court Usurping The Cave Of Legislatures Like Arabian Camel - Need For Restraint Or Control On This Trend
Our Apex Court had been discharging the functions of adjudicating the constitutionality of various statutes very smoothl...
Order XII Rule 6 - A Decree By Consent And The Challenges Ahead
It would, therefore, be the duty of Court to examine in each case whether the parties have pre-existing right to the imm...
Partition Of HUF After Commencement Of Hindu Succession Act, 1956
The effect of Hindu Succession Act, 1956 on partition of HUF property is a debatable issue between the legal experts of ...
Section 67 Of It Act 2000 And It's Scope And Misuse To Violate Digital Freedom
The Information Technology Act, 2000 (also known as ITA-2000, or the IT Act) is an Act of the Indian Parliament notified...
Title Section 34 Of Arbitration And Conciliation Act
(iv) It would be certain that taking a gander at the common-sense viewpoint and the idea of rights by and by included, a...
Need For Regulating Media Trials
Nothing in sub-clause (a) of clause (1) shall affect the operation of any existing law, to prevent the State from making...
NDPS Act: To Vitiate Or Not To Vitiate: A Legal Conundrum Survives
Objective law is the groundwork of subjective law. Subjective law is a set of applications of objective principles onto ...
Scope Of Section 16 Arbitration And Conciliation Act, 1996
However I personally feel, that the benefit of treating the jurisdiction issue as a preliminary issue will result in qui...
Necessity For Permission To Lead Secondary Evidence
A critical analysis of this section shows that Judge may ask the party proposing to lead evidence as to how the said evi...
Data Theft - Issues And Laws
In December 2018, New York-based video messaging service Dubsmash had 162 million email addresses, usernames, PBKDF2 pas...
Contempt Of Court Is A Special Jurisdiction To Be Exercised Sparingly And With Caution
The judiciary is the guardian of the rule of law and is the central pillar of the democratic State. In our country, the ...
Section 6, Hindu Succession Act- Vineeta Sharma vs. Rakesh Sharma:- Removing Gender Bias
The term 'Coparcenary' is a much narrower body than a joint family, and consists of only those persons who have taken by...
Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 : Preliminary Assessment Evaluation: A Two-Tier Process
Be that as it may, as could be seen from the above said provision, the learned Sessions Judge or the Special Judge or th...
Preliminary Assessment Under Juvenile Justice (Care And Protection Of Children) Act, 2015 : A Sword Or Shield
Now the board has to do preliminary assessment keep above factor in mind. To come out with the conclusion board may take...
Vineeta Sharma vs. Rakesh Sharma: Clearing The Last Hurdle Towards Gender Equality In Hindu Law
3. It is proposed to remove the discrimination as contained in section 6 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 by giving equ...
Betting In Sports
In India, sports betting's legal status is not clear. Hence, licenses for sport wagering have been given to private oper...
Nip The Evil In The Bud- Says Order 7 Rule 11
Checking of Plaint by the Court is essentially a formal pre-admission scrutiny of the pleadings filed in the Indian law ...
An Analysis Of Faridkot Ruler Property Dispute And How The HC Upholds The Verdict
On 01.06.2020, the Hon'ble Punjab & Haryana High Court finally adjudicated the 28 years long dispute over FARIDKOT RULER...
Principle Of Res-Judicata-The Backbone Of Code Of Civil Procedure 1908
Res-Judicata and Res-Sub Judice- Res-Judicata under Sec-11 of the Code of Civil Procedure,1908 is bar on the matter and ...
The Rule is Specific Performance - Unless
The Indian Contract Act, 1872, regulates the law relating to contracts in India, and is the key Act formulating contract...
Joint Hindu Family, Ancestral and Coparcenery Property
Hindus were governed by Shastric and Customary laws which varied from region to region and sometimes it varied in the sa...
Transferee Pendent Lite Viz A Viz Lis Pendence
A serious action for disobedience of the provisions of section 52 under order 39 rule 2 A CPC, ought to be taken by impo...
Stare Decisis - The Principle Of Precedents And Its Practice In India
The principle of binding nature of precedents is known as Stare decisis et non quieta movere. Courts have developed this...
A Critical Analysis Of Limitation Viz. A Viz Claim Of Inheritance
It is settled principle of law that fraud/misrepresentation vitiate every action. In case, one co-heir prepares forged a...
Eclipse Of Rule Of Law In The Aftermath Of The Police Encounters Of The Gangster Vikas Dubey And His Allies - Now Imperative Upon The Apex Court, Human Rights Commissions, Parliamentarians And The Intelligentsia To Bring The System Back On Rails
So the Apex Court is expected to bring the system on rails without in any manner being deflected by the strong public op...
To `Will' Willfully
A Will so executed by the testator is liable to be revoked or altered anytime, till the time the executant is alive and ...
Government's decision to Decriminalize Section 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act is Right?
In fact the main object of said amendment Act was to promote confidence in Manufactures, Industrials Units and Traders a...
Boundary Dispute And Its Resolution
No person other than a Revenue Officer (or retired Revenue Officer) not below the rank of a Field Kanungo should usually...