Month: November 2020

Supreme Court bench of Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice Indira Banerjeewhile hearing today observed that- “festivals are important, but in this time of Covid-19 pandemic preservation of life is more important.” The apex court rejected the plea which was challenging Calcutta HC order on banning use of firecrackers in West Bengal during this festivals season. The plea was filed by the Burrabazar Fireworks Dealers Association and

Delhi HC bench of Justice Mukta Gupta after hearing a plea by Kishore Biyani-led Future Retail Ltd (FRL), Reliance and Amazon Inc; issued summons to Amazon Inc with respect to the question of maintainability of the suit. They also seeked for ad-interim injunction against Amazon for sending letters to various regulatory authorities writing about an injunction award by an Emergency Arbitrator against Future Retail Ltd’s acquisition by Reliance Industries Ltd’sentities for about Rs. 24, 713 crores. Sr.

Seeking the initiation of proceedings against Delhi Chief Secretary, Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Directors General of Health Service & ICMR for allegedly not complying with a court order to take action against illegal online health service aggregators operating in Delhi & to regulate online pathological labs, a contempt plea has been moved in the High Court of

A PIL was filed before the Madaras HC which alleged that the Chidambaram MPmade adverse remarks against women and also that he had misinterpreted Manusmriti which are against the oath he had taken while assuming office as an MP. The divison bench of court comprising of Justice M Sathyanarayanan and Justice R Hemalatha, said that Manusmriti is not a statute book but it is to be read only inaparticular manner. It’s

The Additional District Judge (SC/ST) Jagdish Kumar of Lalitpur District after hearing the arguments of prosecution and defense, pronounced the sentence to occultist Rahul Prajapati of Talbehat police station. The victim in the case was a Dalit woman who was raped by the occultist on the night of June 7th, 2018. The case was going on since 2 and ½ year on the

The demolition of house of UP’s MLA Vijay Mishra was stayed by the Allahabad High Court. MLA filed a writ with the HC challenging the demolition and said that the demolition of his house started only 5 minutes after the order dated November 5th, 2020 and didn’t even give him opportunity to get recourse. The

Tariq Khan is an acclaimed arbitration lawyer and presently a Principal Associate at Advani & Co., New Delhi. He is an alumnus of Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), where he completed his LL.B. Honours degree. He was recently recognised as the youngest legal professional featured in the prestigious BW (Business World) Legal 40 under 40, 2020 list.

On 10th November, the single judge bench of the Kerala High Court allowed pre-arrest bail to Bhagyalakshmi, Divya Sana, and Sreelakshmi Arackal who have been accused of assaulting controversial YouTuber Vijay P Nair.  These three women entered the Vijay P Nair’s office on September 26 and thrown black ink, nettle oil on his face because of his vulgar remarks against a woman slurring feminists in

In the Supreme Court of India [1968]2SCR 823 Appellant State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors. Respondent Sardar D.K. Jadav Date of Judgement 25.01.1968 Bench Hon’ble Justice J.C. Shah; Justice Vaidynathier Ramaswami Background: The present appeal is brought to the Supreme Court by Special Leave to Appeal challenging the judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court

Challenging the summons issued to him in a defamation complaint filed against him by BJP leader Karan Singh Tanwar Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has moved the Delhi High Court. Kejriwal has challenged the order of 3rd October, 2020 of Sessions court which dismissed the plea against a Magisterial Court July 2019 order of summoning him and AAP MLAs Amanatullah Khan