Keeping Pace with Legal Change
Another huge court case is about to take place in the technological and the gaming industry in India where fintech giant Paytm has petitioned the court over insolvency against the popular online gaming platform WinZO.
A highly alarming report to the Kerala High Court has given grave concerns about how the Sabarimala temple was run. Major irregularities in the treasury of the temple have been raised by Justice K V Jayakumar who sits as the Sabarimala Special Commissioner.
This National Company Law Tribunal order addresses the seven-year failure of Jaipur Metals & Electricals Ltd.’s suspended management, including Rajasthan State officials, to transfer company assets to the Resolution Professional. The Tribunal mandates the immediate handover, rejecting the State’s justifications and criticizing its severe obstruction of the insolvency process.
The Supreme Court of India has very clearly and in a very significant decision quashed a criminal trial against a man and his mother. The serious charges they were facing were of abetment of suicide and this is provided under the Indian Penal Code 306. This move prevents the court battle against them.
The Central government has been severely criticized by the Supreme Court of India on the technical challenges of censoring X-rated or pornographic sites especially to kids. In one hearing, the bench headed by Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai, used the recent upheaval in Nepal as a cautionary signal of the unintentional side effects of targeting the inherent censorship of the internet.
The alarming increasing trend of the so-called digital arrests has been strictly checked by a Supreme Court bench including Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi who have assumed a no-nonsense attitude. The bench has turned into a nightmare to cyber extortionists meaning that the era of simple advisories is long gone
The makers of the film, according to the complaint, have pushed the boundaries of what can be considered humour by being explicit in their content in the name of humour.
The Delhi High Court has acted decisively on a petition made by a Bollywood actress Celina Jaitly who wants her brother to be released out of prison in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Justice Subramonium Prasad gave a stern order to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), wherein he instructed them to make decisive and immediate action to assist the jailed brother of the actress Vikrant Jaitly.
The Supreme Court of India has intervened to stay a controversial order by the Karnataka High Court, which had put forward a record-keeping burden on multiplexes (imposed as record demands) that was unworkable).
The Delhi high court has given a great relief to a big number of law students in a single order. The court has instructed law colleges based in Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) and Chaudhary Charan Singh University (CCS) to allow students with deficits in attendance to take their end-of-semester examinations.
