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The apex court has ruled that an employee’s absence from service is not justified solely by a pending VRS application. The case relates to doctors from the Uttar Pradesh government who had applied for the scheme and then remained absent for a considerable time. The ruling could now apply to similar cases in the private sector

The extent to which the country would have to change and spend to possibly achieve a state of a one-election cycle for all is probably not needed at this point in history. The entire exercise could result in a bigger expenditure than it undergoes today, and  a logistical chaos of epic proportions

By Inderjit Badhwar The Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the limits of immunity under Section 197 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) could not have come at a more critical time for Indian de...

Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna recently apprised the full court of the Supreme Court of the Collegium’s meeting with the Allahabad High Court judge. The Collegium had met the judge after his remarks targeting Muslims at a Vishwa Hindu Parishad event led to an uproar and Opposition demands for his impeachment 

This judgment reaffirms the principle that immunity is  intended to protect lawful actions undertaken in good faith, not shield wrongful acts

The apex court has come down heavily on the “growing tendency to misuse provisions like Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code” intended to protect married women “as a tool for unleashing personal vendetta against the husband and his family by a wife”. The issue has gained relevance considering the recent suicide of a Bengaluru techie and the allegations levelled by him against his wife and in-laws 

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed that all school buses and vehicles on school duty must be equipped with a GPS tracking system and CCTV cameras which enable real-time tracking and monitoring of the vehicle, thus allowing parents to stay informed and connected through a dedicated mobile app

If confirmed, five Indian-Americans are likely to be top-tier players in the new US administration, rewarded for their ideological beliefs and personal loyalty to President-elect Donald Trump. Not surprisingly, several are lawyers with considerable public involvement in Republican and right-wing political issues. Despite a slim Republican majority, all are not assured of confirmation by the US Senate, which must approve top-level presidential appointments

The Judiciary acts on the basis of an established legal dictum: an accused is awarded “presumption of innocence till he/she is proven guilty”, which means that an arrested person be treated with humanity, dignity and respect until he/she is proven guilty by the court of law. The apex court has now decided to examine whether arrest becomes invalid when the accused is not provided sufficient reasons

The special bench constituted by the apex court to hear a clutch of pending petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Act has forbidden the filing of any new petitions challenging the current status of places of worship. The Act under fire had left only the Ayodhya issue to be decided by the courts and froze the status of any place of worship as it was on the day of India’s independence