S.Marimuthu vs. The State of Tamil Nadu

  In the High Court of MadrasMANU/TN/1101/2019PetitionerS.Marimuthu RespondentThe State of Tamil NaduDate of Judgement14th March 2019BenchHon’ble Justice S.M. Subramaniam Facts It was alleged that all the writ petitioners were engaged as daily rated/casual employees and serving in the Department for the past of many years. In view of the fact that they are serving continuously,

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JSA promotes 3 from salary to equity partnership of 37

Mookerjee, Chowdhury, Verghese make JSA equity partnership J Sagar Associates (JSA) has promoted three of its non-salaried partners into its equity partnership circle that is now 37 strong. Arka Mookerjee, finance, capital markets; Mumbai; LLB: University of Pune 2006. Roy Chowdhury corporate, M&A, private equity and finance, fintech; Bangalore; LLB: SLS Pune 2004. Tony Verghese

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Uniform Civil Code: A Sisyphean Approach

 Uniform Civil Code: A Sisyphean Approach INTRODUCTION India-one of the largest democracy has a multiparty parliamentary system, vociferous media, and vigilant NGO’s. Besides this, its traditional, cultural, religious, and linguistic edifice is based on diversity, which is cherished by all nooks and corners of India. Therefore, the above-given concepts give rise to separate identities apart

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The (Active) Involvement of Directors during Insolvency Proceedings

[Kushagra Srivastava is a 3rd year B.A.L.L.B. (Hons.) student at National Law Institute University, Bhopal] Section 17(1)(a) of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (the “Code”) vests the management of the affairs of a corporate debtor in the interim resolution professional (“IRP”) on the insolvency commencement date in accordance with section 16 of the Code.

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Death Penalty

The Indian Penal Code, 1860 defines the offences and prescribes punishments for the offences. Chapter III of the Code deals with provisions related to punishments which are prescribed for various offences under the Code. Section 53 under Chapter III defines punishments. The provision includes death penalty as a punishment prescribed under the Code. Death penalty-

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