TThe Supreme Court has directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to proceed with a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) into issues surrounding the construction of the DLF Primus project in Gurugram, ...
Introduction: The Supreme Court has taken a serious view of an alleged deviation between the project represented to homebuyers and the manner in which the DLF Primus housing proje ...
The proceedings arose from a habeas corpus petition filed by the paternal uncle of Shafat Maqbool Wani, challenging the order passed by the District Magistrate, Kupwara, whereby Wani had been placed ...
The Delhi High Court has clarified an important aspect of the power of criminal courts under Section 311 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, holding that reservation of a criminal case for ...
The Himachal Pradesh High Court has clarified that a person cannot be presumed to be of unsound mind merely because he is deaf and dumb. The Court held that the appointment of a guardian under Order ...
The Karnataka High Court has granted bail to a man accused of rape under Section 69 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, observing that where an accused who allegedly promised to marry a woman ...
The Supreme Court exercised its extraordinary jurisdiction under Article 142 of the Constitution and directed that FIRs registered anywhere in India in relation to student protest incidents occurring ...
Introduction: The Delhi High Court has dismissed a Public Interest Litigation seeking special measures to ensure that homeless persons, including individuals rendered homeless or ...
Introduction: The Supreme Court has reaffirmed that constitutional courts must not allow procedural or technical shortcomings to defeat a litigant’s substantive right to have a ...
The Bombay High Court has drawn an important legal distinction between the offences of outraging the modesty of a woman and sexual harassment, holding that an act may prima facie attract Section 354 ...
The Madras High Court has clarified the statutory limits of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, holding that a complaint under the Act can be maintained only by a ...
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to narcotic drugs, to make stringent provisions for the control and regulation of operations relating to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances 1, ...