The Supreme Court has today given liberty to mother of a student of National Institute of Open Schooling to make representation to the Institute for awarding him marks based on either his performance in the past two performed subjects or the CBSE scheme. “Why have you not made a representation to the NIOS first? Why …
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Introduction The Consumer Protection (E-commerce) Rules, 2020 (“Rules”) were notified by the Government of India on 20.07.2020. The Rules are intended to complement the Consumer Protection Act, 2020 (“Act”) to by regulating all e-commerce activities and transactions. The Rules have sought to govern all such e-commerce activities by laying down duties and liabilities to be …
New Delhi: The Bombay High Court has rejected two petitions for the reopening of temples or places of worships during the COVID-19 pandemic citing life and public health implications. The court’s judgment came on the petitions filed by the Jain Gyanmandir Trust and another person Ankit Hirji. “God is within us and God is everywhere, …
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The Bar Council of India has decided to make certain urgent and important requests from the Centre and State governments. The BCI Chairman will write to the Prime Minister and Chief Justice of India along with other Ministers and officers seeking fulfillment of certain demands. Bar Council of India has requested the Union and State …
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The Bar Council of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, & Sikkim had adopted a resolution in the meeting held on 10/08/2020 to sit in demonstration in every Bar Association in N.E. Region under the Bar Council on, 13/08/2020 for resumption of physical court and opening of offices of Bar Associations under Gauhati High Court, Assam. …
New Delhi: Rhea Chakraborty, girlfriend of deceased actor Sushant Singh Rajput, has submitted before the Supreme Court that while she has no objection to a CBI enquiry into the death of the actor per se, she was against the “illegal manner” in which an executive order was issued to start it. She has said that …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and the Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association (SCAORA) has informed that a seven-judge committee of the Supreme Court is seriously considering the resumption of physical functioning for at least 2-3 benches of the court. Pursuant to a virtual meeting held on August 11 and attended by the SCBA, …
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has allowed the medical termination of pregnancy of a minor rape survivor 22 weeks into her pregnancy, considering the psychological complications. The bench of Justice Vibhu Bakhru ordered this after considering the report of the medical board constituted by it to evaluate the risk of continuing with the pregnancy. …
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New Delhi: A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking an age-based access control to social media and to devise a profile verification mechanism to eliminate illicit content on social media. The petition has been filed by Skand Bajpai and Abhyudaya Mishra, law students of New Law College, Bharathi Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune. …
A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to declare Section 2(f) of the National Commission for Minority Education Institution Act 2004, as arbitrary, irrational and against the Articles 14, 15, 21, 29 and 30 of the Constitution. The petitioner Advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay and BJP spokesperson submitted that the cause of …
