Keeping Pace with Legal Change
The recent request of prominent spiritual leaders to the courts to obtain a potent legal remedy called the personality rights has included Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
It is a caustic and stinging attack by the Allahabad High Court on the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh. The court was angry by how it took excessive time to compensate a minor rape victim. According to the judges, the situation and the mood of the state officials was deplorable and disgusting.
Kerala high court in a landmark ruling gave a divorce to a woman on the basis that the severely suspicious and controlling nature of her husband constituted a severe mental cruelty
This order had stipulated the restriction of meetings with over ten people in any public or government-owned area without prior written notice. The order was placed on interim stay by justice M Nagaprasanna of the Dharwad bench until further hearing.
The quashing of fifteen (FIRs) against Suvendu Adhikari by Justice Jay Sengupta of the Calcutta High Court is a major legal move. Adhikari is a senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and the Member of Parliament in the West Bengal Assembly, the Leader of the Opposition.
The Supreme Court of India has refused to prevent criminal prosecution of a man over a social media post that he made in 2020. The case is that of Mohd Faiyyaz Mansuri who is a graduate of law and was charged with posting an obscene message on Facebook.
The focus of a massive court battle has been made against a new movie starring the old actor known as Paresh Rawal. The film is called The Taj Story and now it is subject to a Public Interest Litigation or PIL, which is petitioned in the Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court Bar Association, also referred to as DHCBA, has officially protested against a new proposal of making Saturdays workdays at the court. This was an anguish, the concern of thousands of lawyers, who practice in the High Court, and was put across in this letter.
A historic case that upheld an important principle of criminal justice has been passed by the Supreme Court of India. One of the judges, Justice PK Mishra, said that one should not presume that a public servant is guilty of corruption just because money was found in their hands.
The Supreme Court of India has released bail on three men accused in the 2019 Sambhal Jama Masjid violence case. This ruling by the supreme court of the country is a step forward in the legal issue that has been going on.
