By Sanjay Raman Sinha The Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (CGPDTM) office is under a cloud. The law ministry has termed the orders passed by CGPDTM over the last two years as legally unenforceable, as they have been passed by outsourced employees. The Trade Marks Act, 1999, prohibits orders by outsourced employees;…
By Sujit Bhar The issue of the horrific rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee lady doctor early on August 9 at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital has been dissected a million ways by the police, the state administration, by parties in Opposition and on social media, many through fake videos/audios. One person…
By Kenneth Tiven Make no mistake, Kamala D Harris, an American politician and attorney, who is the current vice-president of the United States, has momentum with the election just two months away. In a stunning four-week period, she has united a political movement of joy and hope for the majority of Americans worried about democracy…
By Rajeev Sharma Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court Sunita Agarwal, formally inaugurated the country’s first Med-Arb Centre at the Gujarat High Court Arbitration Centre on August 15, 2024. The inauguration, on Independence Day, was symbolic and attended by judges of the High Court, specially trained mediators for Med-Arb (mediation/arbitration) and other legal luminaries….
The Supreme Court on Friday held that Section 479 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), the replacement of the Code of Criminal Procedure would apply retrospectively to the undertrials across the country, which means that the provision will apply to all undertrials in cases was registered before July 1, 2024. According to Section 479 BNSS,…
The Allahabad High Court while dismissing an anticipatory bail application said that a person who has violated the law and has not shown exceptional circumstances is not entitled to the benefit of extraordinary jurisdiction. A Single Bench of Justice Vikram D Chauhan passed this order while hearing a Criminal Misc anticipatory bail application filed by…
The Kerala High Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed seeking direction to the respondents to provide nomenclature in the English language for the Acts (The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and The Bharathiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023). The Petitioner further prayed to:- -Declare that the action of respondents in…
The Allahabad High Court has quashed the order to recover the excess payment made due to wrong pay fixation from a retired sub-inspector of the police department. A Single Bench of Justice J.J Munir passed this order while hearing a petition filed by Ravi Shankar Tripathi. The petition is directed against the order dated 06.03.2024…
A local court in Maharashtra on Thursday refused to grant bail to six individuals, including the parents of a minor driver, accused of tampering with the evidence in the Kalyaninagar car accident case. Additional District Judge UM Mudholkar came down heavily on the accused for conspiring to swap blood samples and shielding the minor driver…
The Supreme Court today adjourned the hearing of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s pleas challenging his arrest and seeking bail in the case registered by the CBI over the alleged Delhi Liquor Policy scam, after the CBI sought time to file a counter-affidavit in the matter. A bench comprising Justice Surya Kant and Justice Ujjal…