IL Feature

Chitra Ramkrishna, a CA who headed the National Stock Exchange (NSE) between 2013 and 2016, was touted as one of the powerful women of the securities market in India. But she has been in the news recently for all the wrong reasons.

The project is mired in controversy due to its high cost and supposed ecological damage. But the High Court has allowed the government to conduct a survey and mark the properties affected by it.

The India Justice Report (IJR), which, since 2019, has been reporting on justice delivery in India, recently analysed prison statistics in India, 2020. It takes a closer look at prisons through the pandemic with a focus on overcrowding, vacancies and access to hospitals, among others.

The BJP’s manifesto for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections reiterates that the party, if it returns to power, would bring in a jail term of minimum 10 years for those found guilty of indulging in love jihad. Election promises tend to ignore Constitutional rights.

A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court, comprising Justices Siddharth Mridul and Anup Jairam Bhambhani is considering issues pertaining to interpretation and effective implementation of several pro...

Life throws different challenges at every step. And the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown its own set of challenges for advocates. For the last one and half years, advocates throughout India are grappling with the restricted functioning of courts. They have to answer a flurry of questions emanating from their infuriated clients on a daily basis. 

The Delhi government recently withdrew its order where it was compulsory to wear a mask while driving alone. This happened after an observation by the Delhi High Court where it termed as “absurd” a Delhi government order making it compulsory to wear a mask while driving alone in the context of Covid-19 and asked why the decision was still prevailing.

The Jabalpur bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that no “moral policing” can be allowed if two adults are willing to stay together by way of marriage or a live-in relationship. A single bench of Justice Nandita Dubey passed this order while hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by one Gulzar Khan, who alleged that he had married at BMA Maharashtra (Bandra) and his wife had willingly converted to Islam. It was alleged that his in-laws had forcibly taken her to Banaras and illegally detained her there.

The Supreme Court on February 4 directed all states to provide full particulars regarding details of compensation given to the concerned State Legal Service Authority (SLSA), including orphans, withi...

By Ajay K. Agrawal The apex court recently declined to grant any interim relief to NGOs whose licenses were not renewed by the Ministry of Home Affairs under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) ...