Justice Rohinton Nariman and the nine-judge bench of Supreme Court have declared Right to Privacy as a fundamental right in a case titled KS Puttaswamy Vs Union of India. Every year, ‘Access Now’ names “heroes” who have worked towards ensuring any electronic surveillance program which fully respects human rights and this year the nine-Judge bench has been acclaimed with this
A petition is filed in the Supreme Court by Goolrakh Gupta a Parsi Zoroastrian woman, raising the legal issue whether she gets automatically converted to Hindu religion after her marriage to a Hindu man. She stated that there was no law in India which says that the wife must adopt her husbands religion. SC stated that it will decide the
The Bombay High Court on hearing a writ petition challenging an order of the family court wherein an interim maintenance amount of Rs. 5,000 each was awarded to the petitioner and her two minor children stated that the respondent husband made every attempt to conceal his income in order to avoid paying maintenance. Thus the court allowed the petition
The Supreme Court put a hold sale of fire crackers in Delhi and NCR region stating that sale will get implemented only from November 1, 2017. A bench headed by Justice A K Sikri said it wanted to test the effect of the ban on air quality after Diwali noting that each year festival leaves the air in Delhi thick
The Supreme Court has ordered the Centre to place on record the steps taken by them to enhance the security in the Courts within four weeks. This order was issued by a Bench comprising Justice S.A. Bobde and Justice L. Nageswara in a case in which the witness was shot dead while the police was escorting him to the lock-up. Shikha TiwariI
A woman from Choolaimedu has filed a petition that she was scared of being branded as a terrorist. She has accused a business conglomerate of harassing her due to a private dispute between them. She stated that she is facing harassment and her phone calls are being tapped. The Madras High Court has come to the rescue and ordered
In a short but significant Judgement, additional district judge of the Patiala House Courts, Delhi awarded damages of Rs. 2 Lakhs to Lokendra Singh Bati, a Noida. Mr Bati sued the Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of Home Affairs for erroneously seizing his passport at the airport on the basis of a police case filed against him and
The Supreme Court has taken Suo Motu Cognizance of question paper leak in the Haryana Judicial Service Examination 2017 and transferred the matter to Apex Court. The registrar of the office Dr. Balwinder Kumar Sharma was the conspirator. The Haryana High Court Creation Committee recommended registration of an FIR and disciplinary action against him, as well as his transfer from
The Supreme court has ordered the Tamil Nadu government to decide the representation of Mathaiyan seeking premature release from prison within 4 weeks take decision on the same. Mathaiyan is the elder brother of slain forest brigand Veerappan. He is in Salem Central Prison as a life convict since 1997 charged for the offences of murder, causing hurt
The Supreme Court has decided to hear a plea filed by kids Arjun-Gopal and others tomorrow seeking restoration of its last years decision of prohibiting fire crackers in Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR). The plea has also sought recall of apex court verdict dated September 12 which had temporarily lifted the order of suspending permanent licences for sale of firecrackers
