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22/03/2023, 3 years ago

Bombay HC rules for daughter’s right in the family property in case dowry is given

The Bombay High Court in the case of Terezinha Martins David vs Miguel Guarda Rosario Martins while dismissing the argument of a family led by four brothers and a mother that since the four daughters were given some dowry at the time of their wedding, they cannot claim any right in the family’s properties. held […]

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22/03/2023, 3 years ago

Advocates Protection Bill passed by Rajasthan State Assembly

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” – Martin Luther King, Jr. After a long tussle by the Advocates of Rajasthan, The State’s assembly finally passed an Advocate Protection Bill. The matter started after the gruesome murder of an Advocate in Jodhpur High Court after which advocates all […]

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21/03/2023, 3 years ago

“Duty Allowance”, home guards are entitled under Minimum pay of Police Personnel: SC to Odisha Government 

The Supreme Court in the case of Prakash Kumar Jena And Ors. v. State of Odisha And Ors, observed that “the issue of whether the Home Guards working in the State are entitled to Duty Allowance as per the minimum amount of pay to which the police personnel in the State are entitled is settled […]

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21/03/2023, 3 years ago

State Board employees can’t be considered as State Government Employees: Supreme Court

 Supreme Court in the case of State of Orissa v Orissa Khadi and Village Industries Board Karmachari Sangh observed “Even when the State has established the Board to carry out its obligations in terms of Article 43 of the Constitution of India, it cannot follow as a corollary that the employees of this body corporate […]

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21/03/2023, 3 years ago

High speed driving solely does not constitute to the offence of rash and negligent driving: Bombay HC 

The Bombay High Court in the case of  State of Maharashtra v. Kuldeep Pawar observed that driving at high speed alone will not attract the offence of rash and negligent driving and said that to constitute this offence two components are needed i.e. rashness and negligence. The act will be punishable only if the driving […]

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21/03/2023, 3 years ago

Abolition of Administrative Tribunal by Central government upheld by Supreme Court

The  Supreme Court while hearing the case of Orissa Administrative Tribunal Bar Association v. Union of India upheld the abolition of the Orissa Administrative Tribunal (OAT) by the Central government on the ground that it is not violative of Article 14 of the Constitution. The Court added that people or their representatives need not be […]

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21/03/2023, 3 years ago

Proof of sole dependency is to be established for claiming right over forest: Madras HC

“This Court is of the view that merely because, the petitioners’ ancestors were originally residing in the forest, thereafter, some areas have been acquired, the entire area have been declared as Reserved Forest in the year 1926 and now the petitioners who are residing somewhere else, the petitioners cannot claim any right under the said […]

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21/03/2023, 3 years ago

A person professing Christianity cannot claim to be a Hindu: Kerala HC

The Kerala High Court recently in the case of D Kumar v. A Raja, declared the election of Communist Party of India candidate A Raja from the Devikulam constituency in the 2021 State assembly as void. As the seat was reserved for the Scheduled Caste (SC) and at the time of the nomination Raja was […]

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21/03/2023, 3 years ago

No bar on non-citizens seeking information under RTI Act: Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court while observing that RTI Act places enormous emphasis on access to information which could relate to the life and liberty of a person stated that creating an absolute bar on disclosure of information to non-citizens would defeat the provisions of RTI Act. The court further said that whether the information sought […]

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