Above: Lawyers of Patna High Court protesting against the proposed Advocates Amendment Bill/Photo: UNI
The Bar Council sub-committee’s reasons for rejecting the Law Commission report on regulation ...
With the political grapevine abuzz with speculation that Prime Minister Narendra Modi could recommend advancing of the general elections scheduled for May 2019 to later this year, finance minister Aru...
Above: Sreejith’s over-two-year-long fight for his dead brother has finally got civil society’s attention/Photo Courtesy: facebook
Sreejiv’s death in 2014 has brought into sharp focus the many live...
Above: ABVP activists outside St Mary’s PG College, Vidisha/Photo Courtesy: ANI
With Christian community under increasing attack in Madhya Pradesh, the Catholic Association has moved the Jabalpur H...
Above: Exit polls of the 2013 Chhattisgarh elections being telecast on NDTV
Can a plea to regulate such polls which impact voter behaviour and which supposedly damage the democratic ideal of free a...
Above: The Supreme Court has slammed khap panchayats for objecting to inter-caste marriages
In a landmark order, the Supreme Court has said that any adult person can marry anyone of their choice an...
Above: (L-R) Justice Kurian Joseph, Justice Jasti Chelameswar, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Madan B Lokur addressing a press conference in New Delhi/Photo: UNI
In a move that has shocked the na...
Above: Supreme Court
2018 will see some important cases coming up in the Supreme Court, be it the contentious Aadhaar issue, the Babri Masjid dispute or the tussle between Delhi’s chief minister an...
~By Kunal Rao
There were some interesting judgments in 2017 that need to be recorded for posterity. They range from legal opinion on playing a small-stakes rummy game at home to intellectual property ...
CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
SEEKING VOTES IN THE NAME OF RELIGION IS A CORRUPT PRACTICE
Date of Judgment: January 2, 2017
Describing religion as a private relationship between man and God, a seven-...