The Hon’ble Tripura High Court has held that insults to religion made unintentionally/without any deliberate or hateful intention to outrage the religious feelings of a class would not amount to an offense under Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 The Hon’ble Single Bench of Chief Justice observed, “Section 295A does not punish any
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SUPREME COURT REITERATES PRINCIPLES OF STATUTORY BAR ON LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST DEBTOR DURING MORATORIUM The #SupremeCourt has in a recent case of P. Mohanraj and Others vs M/S Shah Brothers Ispat Pvt Ltd passed a Judgment dated 01-03-2021 regarding whether institution or continuation of proceedings under Section 138/141 of the #NegotiableInstruments Act 1881 (the NI
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Introduction In the present technology-filled word, new inventions and ideas are being introduced each and every day. These ideas, processes and inventions have to be protected so that the owner of such invention doesn’t get deprived of his right. Giving protection to their work gives the inventor/author an encouragement to work further on other new
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An interim injunction filed against 67 media houses by the Bengaluru Civil Court to restrain the airing of any kind-of dubious material that could jeopardize the position of six of the state ministers in the B.S. Yediyurappa Cabinet until the next hearing. The background of the case is as follows: On 5th March, the State
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The SC quashed an FIR registered on rape charges, saying there was no allegation to the effect that the marriage promise made by the accused was false from the beginning. The petition seeking the cancellation of the FIR of the accused was rejected by the Allahabad High Court, after which he approached the apex court
... Continue Reading.[Ekta Janghu is an Associate at Wadia Ghandy & Co., Mumbai and Riya Gupta is an Associate at Algo Legal, Mumbai] On February 1, 2021, the Finance Minister announced a host of reforms vide its first paperless budget. Amongst these, was the proposal to increase the threshold for foreign investment in the Indian insurance sector
... Continue Reading.In a recent landmark decision in Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the Supreme Court of United Kingdom (UK) has permitted a jurisdiction appeal against a UK-domiciled parent company for the environmental violations of its Nigerian subsidiary. This judgment makes a significant contribution to the fields of human rights, environmental law, and corporate law. The
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Candidates preparing for Haryana Judicial Services should solve the Haryana Judicial Services 2013 Mains Previous Year Paper and other previous year question papers before they face Prelims and Mains. Additionally, it gives an idea about the syllabus and the way to prepare the subjects by keeping the previous year questions in mind. All toppers are
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Candidates preparing for Haryana Judicial Services should solve the Haryana Judicial Services 2013 Mains Previous Year Paper and other previous year question papers before they face Prelims and Mains. Additionally, it gives an idea about the syllabus and the way to prepare the subjects by keeping the previous year questions in mind. All toppers are
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INTRODUCTION Copyright is an assurance given to makers of particular sort of fills as an accolade and an affirmation to their imaginative scholarly information and works applied.[1] The goal of copyright has consistently been an assurance of the makers’ interest combined with the spread of information and data. However, this security began with acknowledging the
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