Keeping Pace with Legal Change
In a desperate bid to halt the release of a new film based on his life, the Bollywood superstar Salman Khan approached the Delhi High…
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.
Former SIB chief T. Prabhakar Rao has been given the grilling by Special Investigation Team along with allegations of operating a rogue surveillance system to spy on politicians. This investigation reveals destruction of evidence, breakdowns of procedure and poses to some really contentious questions concerning responsibility, integrity of data and usage of state intelligence machine.
Six weeks after the Kedarnath helicopter accident, when six choppers crashed in six weeks, the issue of Chardham helicopter safety and legal responsibility again came under scanner, even as the fall out of the Ahmedabad Boeing 787 accident on the political landscape based on the excesses of oversight and responsibility continued, with more clamour led by the opposition to demand the resignation of its Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu.
Commercial filming in reserved forests Kerala High Court, in its order dated June 2, 2025 in W.A. No. 2179 of 2023, issued a policy review regarding commercial filming in reserved forests. The court ordered the stakeholders to look into environmental protection measures, fee systems, and regulation transparency, and then give permission to shoot.
