By Kenneth Tiven Unquestionably, President Donald Trump believes he possesses political magic. But unlike Indian magician Jadugar Anand, he can’t make his friendship with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein disappear. Yet just as Jadugar Anand could make an elephant vanish and return on stage, facts are reappearing in this made-for-TV political thriller. Trump has known…
By Dr Swati Jindal Garg Reaffirming the primacy of the Right to Liberty, the Delhi High Court has held that the pendency of a criminal appeal before the Supreme Court does not bar prison authorities from considering requests for furlough or parole. In a significant ruling, the Court clarified that such pendency cannot automatically disqualify…
By Sujit Bhar On the surface, a recent Meghalaya High Court ruling may seem procedural—a mere directive allowing individuals to access government benefits through alternative identification, in case they are unable or unwilling to produce an Aadhaar number. However, sifting through the legalese of the interim order by Chief Justice IP Mukerji and Justice W…
By Dilip Bobb The dictionary defines “landmark” in the legal context as an event marking an important turning point. Last week’s ruling by a Supreme Court bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma certainly falls under that definition. On July 14, the bench set aside the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s judgment that…
By Binny Yadav In a landmark ruling that may transform the relationship between corporate harm and criminal justice, the Supreme Court has held that companies qualify as “victims” under the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and therefore have the right to independently file criminal appeals. The decision, delivered in a case involving Asian Paints Ltd.,…
Allahabad High Court Judge Justice Yashwant Varma has concealed his identity in his petition filed before the Supreme Court challenging the in-house inquiry committee’s report that indicted him over the alleged recovery of a huge sum of unaccounted cash from his official residence in Delhi. In the plea seeking urgent protection of his fundamental rights,…
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed by renowned music composer Ilaiyaraaja, seeking transfer of a copyright suit involving over 536 of his musical works, from the Bombay High Court to the Madras High Court. The Bench of Chief Justice of India BR Gavai, Justice Vinod Chandran and Justice NV Anjaria disposed of the…
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to consider including Aadhaar cards and Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPICs) in the list of acceptable documents during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. The Bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi rejected the argument given…
Taking suo motu cognisance of repeated incidents of stray dog bites leading to rabies and deaths, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered initiation of a writ petition on the issue. The Bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice R Mahadevan took suo motu cognisance of a newspaper report published in The Times of India titled…
The Supreme Court on Monday came down heavily on the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, over the increasing number of student suicides at the institution. Taking a prima facie unfavourable view of the issue, the Bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice R Mahadevan asked the institute whether it had given a thought to the…