The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought response from the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on two petitions filed by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal challenging the trial court summons issued against him in the Delhi Excise Policy case. The single-judge Bench of Justice Ravinder Dudeja directed the national agency to state its preliminary…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to stay the release of the film ‘Udaipur Files,’ based on the murder of tailor Kanhaiya Lal Teli. Rejecting the petition filed by Mohammed Javed, one of the accused in Kanhaiya Lal’s murder case, the Bench of Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Joymalya Bagchi told the petitioner to mention the plea…
A Delhi-based lawyer has opposed former Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s application seeking trademark of the term ‘Captain Cool’. The objection was raised by Advocate Ashutosh Choudhary of KAnalysis Attorneys at Law on the grounds of serious procedural lapses and lack of evidence of prior use. The applicant claimed that the phrase was generic, descriptive and…
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has refused to grant anticipatory bail to an Indore-based Cartoonist, booked for allegedly drawing a derogatory caricature of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As per the complaint, Cartoonist Hemant Malviya showed the parties in an undignified manner, allegedly hurting the religious sentiment of the complainant….
The Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind has approached the Delhi High Court seeking to halt the release of film ‘Udaipur Files,’ based on tailor Kanhaiya Lal Sahu’s murder in Udaipur, slated for release on July 11. Filed by Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind President Maulana Arshad Madani, the petition contended that the trailer of the movie portrayed an entire community in…
By Sujit Bhar On June 25, a horrifying act of sexual violence inside the South Calcutta Law College campus shocked West Bengal and the rest of the country. A 24-year-old female law student was brutally raped within the security guard’s room, right inside the institution that was supposed to protect and empower her. The accused,…
By Kenneth Tiven The ideological destruction of constitutional democracy in America is no accident—it follows a carefully executed blueprint. Donald Trump and his inner circle have used religion, power, and a reshaped judiciary to centre Christian nationalist theology in government policy, now ratified by a Supreme Court that appears more political than judicial. This became…
In an exclusive conversation with India Legal, Vasundhara shared her painful experience and called for greater accountability and protection for individuals targeted through abuse of power and legal systems abroad India Legal (IL): You were reportedly detained without warning in Uganda. Could you take us back to that moment—what were you doing when the officers…
The Supreme Court will hear on July 10, a batch of petitions challenging the Election Commission of India’s decision to conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. The matter was mentioned on Monday before the partial working days Bench of Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Joymalya Bagchi by Senior Advocates Kapil…
By Kumkum Chadha From Gunjan to Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla to Shux to Shubh has been a long and eventful journey. “No need to go out of the earth. Stay put here” is what Shubhanshu’s mother, Asha, had told him when he shared his ambition of being an astronaut. Someone who grew up on samosas…