Dr Swati Jindal Garg

A recent acquittal judgment  has sparked nationwide outrage, reigniting debates over the legal immunity afforded to husbands under Indian law

This landmark ruling reinforces the principle of transferred malice in criminal Jurisprudence

The legal landscape may be on the verge of a significant shift as these professionals push for statutory recognition and a greater role in the profession 

How administrative inefficiencies in court registries delay justice, leaving litigants and lawyers in a quagmire of uncertainty

The apex court has rejected the Bar Council’s plea to amend Advocates Act, stating that imposing exorbitant fees on young law graduates creates barriers to entry in the legal profession 

The statutory body has informed the apex court that practising advocates cannot simultaneously work as journalists, whether full-time or part-time. The  submissions were made relying upon Rule 49 of the BCI Rules that prohibit advocates from practicing any other full-time profession while being enrolled as an advocate

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 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

A Madras High Court order denying a Scheduled Caste certificate to a Christian woman who claimed to be a Hindu while applying for an upper division clerk job is just the latest in a number of pleas pending before the apex court that deal with the larger question on the constitutionality of using religion as a yardstick for Scheduled Caste quota

Union Home Minister Amit Shah recently said that the undertrials who have spent more than a third of the maximum prescribed sentence for the crime they are accused of committing should be released before Constitution Day on November 26. This is in light of the new relaxed provisions on bail for first-time offenders in the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023