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The Apex Court asked petitioners to mention again on Friday for urgent listing of their petition seeking a complete ban on the British Broadcasting Corporation in India for its controversial documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots. A bench headed by CJI D Y Chandrachud told the lawyer appearing for the petitioner to mention the matter on Friday. The Supreme Court was hearing a plea filed by Vishnu Gupta, president of Hindu Sena, & Beerendra Kumar Singh, a farmer, which has also sought investigation against BBC & its employees. (Only the headline & picture of this report may have been reworked by the LatestLaws staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.) Source Link Picture Source : ...

Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan - who was booked by the Uttar Pradesh goverment under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) after being arrested while on his way to cover the Hathras gangrape in 2020 - has been released from jail after he was granted bail. “I have come out of jail after 28 months. I want to thank the media for supporting me. False allegations were put against me. I am happy to be out now,” the journalist was quoted as saying by news agency ANI. A sessions court in Lucknow signed the release orders for Kappan's bail case. He was earlier granted bail in the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) case by the Allahabad high court. The release order directed the superintendent to release Kappan if he is not wanted in any other case. On September...

The High Court of Allahabad, rejecting the anticipatory bail plea of one Devendra Kumar Hangal, has observed corruption is a menace which is eating the vitals of the economy of the country. The applicant allegedly indulged in a conspiracy with the officers of the Noida Development Authority funnelled several crores of rupees from the public fund released for the construction of a cricket stadium with a pavilion building at Integrated sports complex at Noida. It is claimed that Hangal through his private limited company conspired with Yadav Singh, who was the engineer-in-chief of NOIDA authority, Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority, & Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority, for the scam. Passing the order, Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh observed, “...

Bombay Lawyers Association, a voluntary body, filed a public interest litigation (PIL) before the Bombay high court on Wednesday seeking directions to declare that the Vice-President of India, Jagdeep Dhankar, and union law minister Kiren Rijiju are "disqualified from holding" their constitutional posts "by showing lack of faith in the Constitution of India by their conduct and utterances made in public". As interim orders, it seeks that the HC restrain them from discharging their official duties. The association has also sought to restrain the Vice-President and the minister "from making derogatory, insulting and objectionable utterances showing their lack of faith in the Constitution of India and the judiciary established by law". The PIL lodged on Wednesday will be me...

Refuting allegations that it is sharing personal and sensitive information of users with others, including its parent company Meta (earlier Facebook), WhatsApp on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that all messages on its platform are encrypted, which can’t be seen even by it, and assured that it would not remove any user from using the social media platform for not consenting to its controversial privacy policy which has been challenged in court. At the outset of the hearing, solicitor general Tushar Mehta told a five-judge Constitution bench of Justices KM Joseph, Ajay Rastogi, Aniruddha Bose, Hrishikesh Roy and C T Ravikumar that the government intends to introduce in Parliament the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill in the second half of the budget session and the ...

The High Court of Delhi has said that the protection under Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 is not available to a husband or male member of the family, in view of sections 2(a) of the statute. Section 2(a) defines an “aggrieved person” as any woman who is, or has been, in a domestic relationship with the “respondent” & alleges to have been subjected to any act of domestic violence. Justice Jasmeet Singh was hearing a plea moved by a woman challenging the proceedings initiated by her husband under Section 12 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act. The woman in her petition contended that the same was totally contrary to the essence of the Act as well as to Section 2(a). The woman in her petition stated that as per the scheme & o...

The Supreme Court has opined that all courts in the country need to have hybrid system of hearings in place so as anyone from anywhere can appear before it. A Bench of Justice SK Kaul and Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka expressed, orally that there needs to be a mandate to courts to put in place the facility. When Senior Advocate P Wilson said that regional benches of the Supreme Court are necessary for the benefit of litigants, the Bench responded that with the growing technological advancements this has become an outdated concept. “With the technology that has developed now, this has lost significance. People regularly, are appearing before us, virtually from all over the country. The only thing which is important is every court must be mandated to work with a hybrid sys...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has issued admit cards for All India Bar Examination (AIBE 17 or XVII). Candidates who applied for the exam on or before the last date and paid the application fee can go to the official website, allindiabarexamination.com or barcouncilofindia.org and download their AIBE admit cards. The direct link is given below. Originally AIBE admit card was scheduled to be issued on January 30 but it was later postponed. AIBE 17 (XVII) admit card download link “Dear Candidate, AIBE -XVII Admit cards will be available on Registration portal for downloading wef 1st Feb 2023 by 5 PM IST (Tentatively)”, Bar Council of India had said. The AIBE XVII exam will be held in offline mode on Feb 5, 2023. AIBE 17 admit card: Know how to download Visit the officia...

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In a significant decision, the Supreme Court has directed all courts and judicial forums to frame guidelines to ensure that amounts deposited with the office or registry of the Courts or Tribunals are mandatorily deposited in a bank or financial institution. The Division Bench of Justice MR Shah and Justice S Ravindra Bhat issued the directions to make sure that litigants do not suffer any loss of interest on the amount deposited before the Courts. It was additionally stated that the guidelines should also cover situations where the concerned litigant merely files the instrument (Pay Order, Demand Draft, Banker’s Cheque, etc.) without seeking any order. "These guidelines should be embodied in the form of appropriate rules, or regulations of each court, tribunal, commiss...