According to individuals familiar with the situation, the CBI is planning an appeal against the Bombay high court’s ruling declaring the detention of former ICICI bank CEO Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar “illegal” and their subsequent release in a loan fraud case. According to insiders, the CBI is concerned that the Kochhars would…
The Calcutta High Court’s Justice Rajasekhar Mantha initiated contempt proceedings against a group of unnamed lawyers on Tuesday for “obstructing delivery of justice” in his courtroom the previous day, ostensibly in protest of an order granting “blanket protection” from arrest to BJP’s Nandigram MLA Suvendu Adhikari. As the impasse carried on, a general body meeting…
Supreme Court -The Supreme Court on Monday said the Uttarakhand government was well within its constitutional jurisdiction to set up a committee to examine implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the state, which could bolster BJP-governed states’ efforts towards uniform civil laws for marriage, divorce, adoption, succession, and partition. The PIL filed by…
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is an international declaration of fundamental human rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a document that was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly made these declarations at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, France….
The Bombay High Court on Monday ordered the release on bail of Chanda and Deepak Kochhar in a loan fraud case “Individual liberty is an important component of our constitutional mandate. Simply because an arrest is legal does not mean that it must be madeā¦if arrests are made on a regular basis, it can inflict…
The Supreme Court on Monday asked Attorney General R Venkataramani for help in developing policies to prevent religious conversions through deception, fraud, force, or allurement, and warned states and interested parties not to politicise a serious legal issue. “We want the attorney general, who admits to being primarily an amicus curiae, to assist the court…
