When we talk about patriotism, we were told in school that it is a duty that needs to be done to show our love for country. For the last few years however, this love for country has been perverted and degraded into something that people couldn’t even imagine. If I can recall, there was a
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INTRODUCTION “A person’s an individual regardless of how small.” The concept of miscarriage or abortion is usually considered unethical all around the world. There is a thin line between a genuine miscarriage of womb and the one done knowingly. Woman can give birth; this quality puts her on a see-saw of life. Here begins the
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Launch of new BCIT-KIIT JV (via KIIT announcement) The Bar Council of India (BCI), hot on the heels of having announced the banning of Indian one-year LLM programmes and a greater focus on continuing legal education (CLE), has announced that through the BCI Trust it would start an Indian Institute of Law (IIL) in Odisha’s
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The Allahabad High Court last week noted that the ‘compromise mentality’ between the contesting parties is now rampantly reigning for a few days, “The life of the departed isn’t quite so cheap, which could be negotiated between two individuals.” Thus, at the hearing of an application filed by the petitioner requesting his bail, the Bench of
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CASE: Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay v Union of India and Ors. CITATION: Writ Petition(s) (Civil) No(s). 1000/2020 CORAM: Hon’ble Chief Justice S.A Bobde, Hon’ble Justice A.S Bopanna and Hon’ble Justice Ramasubramanian On Friday the Supreme Court issued a notice in a plea that was filed by Advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay seeking uniform grounds of adoption and
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Professor (Dr.) VC Vivekanandan has been a teacher, researcher and academic administrator for three decades. Forayed and specialized in the segments of Intellectual Property Law, Internet Law, E-Governance and Business Laws. The academic career started with National Law School in Bangalore in 1990 and later worked with NALSAR University of Law and also held the
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The Three Judge Bench of the Hon’ble #SupremeCourt of India comprising of Justices Rohinton Fali Nariman, Navin Sinha and K.M. Joseph passed a Judgment dated 19-01-2021 in the case of Manish Kumar v. Union of India and Another (Civil Original Jurisdiction Writ Petition(C) No.26 Of 2020) and held that in order to maintain an #Insolvency
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Recently, the National Consumer Redressal Commission, New Delhi (‘NCDRC’) in the case of Freight System (India) (P) Ltd. v. Omkar Realtors and Developers (P) Ltd., (Consumer Case No. 886/2020), vide its Judgment dated 25.01.2021 held that a company is not a ‘#consumer’ under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 (the ‘Act 2019’), when a #company creating
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Introduction Child trafficking is a heinous crime for which all the countries worldwide are fighting against. According to the National Crime Records Bureau, 71,264 (15,894 male and 55,370 female) children were Kidnapped in 2019. This means that every 8 minutes, a child is being kidnapped or abducted. 4,747 children were kidnapped for prostitution, adoption, begging,
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After finding that the testimony of the prosecutor did not inspire trust and that the defense of a sexual arrangement was feasible, the Bombay High Court (Nagpur) bench set aside the conviction of a man for rape. An appeal against the appellant’s conviction for the crime punishable under Sections 376(1) and 451 of the Indian Penal
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