Author: Harsheen Kaur Luthra

Anil Deshmukh’s former personal secretary Sanjeev Palande has requested bail, and the Bombay High Court has deferred judgment on that request. The three people detained by the ED included Palande and Kundan Shinde, Deshmukh’s personal assistant. Request for Bail Filed The main allegation is on Deshmukh directing former Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze to demand money from various commercial establishments, receiving Rs 4 crore through Shinde, and having the money allegedly transit through Hawala to Deshmukh’s trust in Nagpur. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) claims that Palande instructed Waze on behalf of Deshmukh in order to collect money. Deshmukh was granted…

Attacked for Morbi Bridge Tragedy Rahul Gandhi, the head of the Congress, spoke at two public gatherings on Monday in Gujarat. In order to support Congress in the approaching Gujarat Assembly election, the party leader took a break from his ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra. The Gandhi scion attacked the governing BJP and spoke about the Morbi Bridge tragedy, farmer loans, and unemployment while addressing the public in Gujarat. He claimed that the “true criminals” behind the Morbi catastrophe had not been brought to justice and that the BJP adheres to a “corruption and commission model.” On Monday, he spoke at…

Mukul Rohatgi, a former attorney general, and prominent lawyer stated that the collegium method for choosing judges for the Supreme Court and high courts is out of date and needs reform. On November 19, Rohatgi stated, “I truly feel that the collegium system is out of sync and that it is not a product of law or the Constitution,” during a session at Sahitya AajTak 2022. It was never intended to be there; the Supreme Court granted itself this authority in the case of the second judge in 1993. The senior advocate said, “It shouldn’t have been there, but when…

New Revised Data Protection Bill The revised data protection Bill, which was released by the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) on Friday, has several important provisions, including easing cross-border data flows, increasing penalties for data breaches and non-compliance, and enabling the government to exempt state agencies from the law in the interest of national security. The government retracted an earlier document three months before its release, leading to opposition from Big Tech and several segments of civil society. The new plan was released three months later. New Features Added The new draft, now known as the Digital Personal Data…

Cases Filed under POCSO According to a report by the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy on the 10th anniversary of the law, it takes an average of one year and five months to resolve a case filed under the child protection law POCSO, with Uttar Pradesh(UP) having the largest percentage of such cases pending. On November 14, 2022, the POCSO Act, which stands for the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences, will have been in effect for ten years. The report, a result of the Data Evidence for Justice Reform (DE JURE) program at the World Bank and Vidhi’s Justice,…

Proposal for NMFT On Saturday, HOME MINISTER Amit Shah proposed creating a permanent “No Money For Terror” (NMFT) Secretariat in India, which would be expected to more effectively coordinate international efforts to combat funding for terrorism. Shah declared that the “timing is right” for a permanent secretariat when making this announcement at the NMFT conference. The concept, according to sources in the security establishment, is still in its infancy. “India has sensed the need for the NMFT’s unique initiative to be permanent during the discussions in order to maintain the ongoing global focus on combatting the financing of terrorism. The…

Legislative Efforts for the upcoming Winter Session The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is concentrating its legislative efforts for the upcoming winter session of Parliament on bills addressing social and economic challenges. The proposed legislation that is likely to be brought before Parliament includes those that deal with surrogacy, mental health, and making education compulsory and free for kids, in addition to three proposals to implement the goods and services tax (GST). Senior government officials anticipate a tumultuous session, especially given that it comes just before a vital set of elections for the state assemblies of Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa, and Manipur,…

Background Portrait An eight-year-old girl was brutally gang-raped and killed in Kathua Village in 2019; this case is associated with that incident. Three individuals were given life sentences in the case by a Pathankot Special Court in June 2019. Three police officers were also given 5-year prison terms by the court for evidence destruction. The Juvenile Justice Board was given the case against Shubham Sangra. Shubham Sangra was the nephew of the primary defendant, Sanji Ram, who oversaw the temple where the offense was committed. Due to the obstruction of justice by attorneys who objected to the police detaining the…

Uttarakhand Cabinet Approved State’s Anti-Conversion Statue On Wednesday, the Uttarakhand Cabinet approved a proposal to strengthen the state’s anti-conversion statute, the Uttarakhand Freedom of Religion Act, by amending it to make forced conversion a punishable offense, a nonbailable offense with a 10-year prison sentence, similar to the law in the state’s neighbor, Uttar Pradesh. A non-bailable offense is an offense in which bail is not a matter of right, but rather it is a matter of the discretion of the court of law. In the case of non-bailable offenses, mostly the accused gets bail through a court of law. Yet…

Varanasi Court Rejected the Committee’s Argument According to Live Law, a Varanasi court on Thursday rejected the Anjuman Islamia Masjid committee’s argument against the legality of a lawsuit seeking to give Lord Vishweshwar Virajman (Swayambhu) possession of the grounds of the Gyanvapi mosque. Anupam Dwivedi, an advocate for the Hindu side, stated that the Varanasi Court dismissed the Masjid Committee’s appeal contesting the suit’s maintainability in the Gyanvapi Mosque case; the next hearing is scheduled for December 2. In the court of Civil Judge Senior Division Fast Track Court Mahendra Kumar Pandey, the case brought by plaintiff Kiran Singh’s attorneys…