Keeping Pace with Legal Change
It was ruled in the Angadi Chandranna case by the Supreme Court. Shankar & Ors., elucidated essential issues of Hindu law regarding property. It held that self-acquisition of a property which was obtained through personal funds after the partition did not fall liable to claims by the coparceners, and strengthened boundaries of Section 100 CPC.
I had written the article below criticising Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayotallah Khameini, and other religious clerics of Iran as being reactionary village…
The Supreme Court ruled that an unregistered sale agreement cannot confer ownership of immovable property, even if later transactions are registered. Only a properly registered sale deed transfers legal title. In this case, Bhavana Society and its buyers had no valid claim, as their title traced back to an unregistered 1982 agreement, making all subsequent sales legally ineffective
The Kerala High Court has raised alarms over microplastics leaching from single-use food delivery containers into hot meals, linking ingestion to chronic illnesses. The bench urged swift regulatory action, directing the State to propose eco-friendly packaging guidelines within two weeks.
When a family murder case was described as gruesome by all standards, it was the weighing of the extent of brutality of the crime and the reformed profile in prison and mental health status that the Supreme Court commuted the death penalty against the convict to life imprisonment till natural death.
In a high profile motor accident case, compensation was awarded to the claimants of the case by the Supreme Court after the high court had dismissed the income tax evidence in a most arbitrary manner and the court reiterated that compensation should be in line with the actual income primarily as a welfare intention of the Motor Vehicles Act.
InN. Vijay Kumar v. The Supreme Court in Vishwanath Rao N. reinstated the acquittal of the alleged perpetrator in a cheque dishonour trial and set the benchmarks and boundaries of the rebuttable presumptions against the Negotiable Instruments Act and questioned the burden of proof of the parties concerning evidence.
In Barla Ram Reddy v., the Supreme Court. Telangana State solved very crucial grievances that pertained to land evaluation under Land Acquisition Act, 1894. The case overturned the principles of compensation toward the realizable examples and the discardance of exorbitant valuation considering the sales following the notification auction.
The recent attack by Israel on Iran reiterates a clear message : backwardness is punished in the real world.
On part of the United Nations there has been diplomacy through Security Council resolutions, humanitarian agencies and use of special envoys to quell the Iran-Israel confrontation. Its activities include appeals for ceasefire, the mediation, support of refugees, and the evaluation of cases, but its activities are limited by the veto power politics and the competition of members.
