Month: March 2021

Introduction: In general, corpus juris i.e. the body of law is classified into two categories namely, substantive laws and procedural laws, despite the common division of civil and criminal. In which, the former deals with the rights, powers, obligations, and rights of a person, whereas the latter elucidates the court procedures to execute the substantive law. Irrespective

Advocate Mahmood Pracha moves to a Delhi court against the second raid conducted by the Special Cell of Delhi Police on 9 March 2021, expressing the entire exercise as “completely illegal and unjust”. Pracha is representing several accused in the conspiracy for the riots in Delhi in February last year. The Delhi Police also raided

RGNUL Financial and Mercantile Law Review (RFMLR), RGNUL is organising a panel discussion on Expert Panel Discussion on E-commerce: Legal Issues and Regulations with an aim to initiate, stimulate and raise the level of discourse qua these legal issues currently being noted in the realm of E-Commerce. About the RGNUL RFMLR’s Expert Panel Discussion on

The Bombay High Court recently refused to grant anticipatory bail to Mumbai-based ET Now anchor and analyst Varun Hiremath, who is accused of raping a 22-year-old woman from Pune in a hotel in Delhi last month. A single bench of Justice PD Naik heard the transit pre-arrest petition on 1 March and dismissed it on

The Hon’ble Delhi court on 09th March 2021 extended the interim protection from arrest to Shantanu Muluk and Nikita Jacob till 15th March 2021 in the ‘toolkit’ document case related to the farmer’s protest. The Hon’ble Additional Sessions Judge in the Patiala House court also directed the Delhi Police not to take intimidating action against

The Jharkhand High Court has taken suo motu cognizance of the ‘disturbing’ killings of five members of a family in the state, including a five-year-old child. The murders are reportedly done as a result of a witch-hunt. The bench of Chief Justice Dr. Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad expressed displeasure over the case,

The Hon’ble Delhi HC has delivered notice on a petition which challenges the newly introduced Information Technology (Guidelines for intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (hereinafter referred to as “IT Rules, 2021”) The new rules which seek out to introduce a self-regulatory regime for online intermediaries, social media platforms, streaming services, and digital

The Supreme Court has held that multiple complaints by the same party against the same accused in respect of the same incident are unacceptable. Allowing multiple complaints by the same party in relation to the same incident, whether it is cognizable or a private complaint is a crime, will complicate the accused in several criminal

Digital news portal ‘The Wire’ has moved toward the Hon’ble Delhi HC challenging the new rules made by the Central Government under the Information Technology Act, 2000 (hereinafter referred to as “IT Act” 2000) to regulate internet intermediaries, Over-The-Top (hereinafter referred to as “OTT”) platforms and digital news media. The petition has been led by

Image from here We’re pleased to bring you a guest post by Vedangini Bisht and Shubham Chaudhary on a recent Supreme Court order wherein the Doctrine of Copyright Exhaustion was recognised vis-a-vis Software. Vedangini and Shubham are both fourth year students at National Law University, Delhi. Vedangini has earlier written guest posts for us on