Madras HC – IAS Officer primarily gets punished with Imprisonment and secondly Fine for Contempt

A petition was filed seeking to direct revenue divisional officer of Tenkasi district to dispose the petitioner’s appeal under the Patta Passbook Act, for correction of patta entries which was wrongly issued on other person’s name without any documents, in connection to a property which he purchased. On October 12, 2020, the Single Bench of

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1500 Medicos going to Court to get their MD, MS Degrees, AP Private Colleges cry foul

When postgraduate medical students and private college managements are at loggerheads in Andhra Pradesh over allegedly depriving them of certificates, a college principal said the students shouldn’t have gone to the court and preferred to sort it out with the managements in the first place. Dr. Pinnamaneni Siddhartha Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Foundation’s

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Love Jihad needs to be curbed

Days ago UP CM Yogi Adityanath announced a law to be made to curb the menace of “Love Jihad”. Only after a day of that Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar too said his government would take a step forward and said his government was contemplating provisions against it. What is Love Jihad? It aims to

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Rs.1 crore penalty on Punjab National Bank

On November 13, the State-run Punjab National Bank said that RBI has imposed a penalty for Rs.1 crore for contravention of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act. In a stock exchange filing it said that “RBI has observed that the Bank was operating a bilateral ATM sharing arrangement with Druk PNB Bank Ltd, Bhutan, (international

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Job Post: Legal Associate @ Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, New Delhi: Apply by Nov 17

MoEF&CC or Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is inviting applications for the job posts of Associate (Legal), for its office in New Delhi. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is an Indian government ministry. The ministry portfolio is currently held by Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. It

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Memo Pundits – Blog Writing Competition

Memo Pundits is organising a Blog Writing Competition on the theme ‘Law Student’s Toolkit’. The last date of registration for the Competition is November 23rd, 2020. About the Competition Law schools are not limited to bulky books, lengthy case laws and never-ending project submissions. Numerous other aspects like internships, moot court competitions, research papers etc also

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