Author: Reena Devi

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday held that the ultimate choice in the pregnancy cases involving fetal abnormalties is the mother and allowed 8 month pregnant women to undergo medical termination of pregnancy. Case Brief The petitioner is a 26 years old married woman, who is pregnant for 33 weeks and approached to the High court through advocates Prachi Nirwan, Pranjal Shekhar and Yaseen Siddiqui.The petitioner defined that she has undergone regular ultrasounds and no abnormality was reported. It was the first time on November 11 when the abnormality in the brain of the fetus was found. On November 14…

The Madhya Pradesh High Court Observed that a marksheet cannot be considered to be a valuable security. In Ghanshyam Patel V/s State of Madhya Pradesh Crno. 3829 of 2018, the Madhya Pradesh High Court deals with the issue relating to Section 467 of IPC. Facts of case The applicant’s younger brother Raghunath Patel by picturing himself to be the present applicant secured employment in South Eastern Coalfield Limited (SECL) by using the present applicant’s marksheet and documents. For which an FIR was lodged against him an investigation was conducted and hence matter reached the court. The applicant filed a revision…

In Uttar Pradesh Medical college principal among five booked in connection with MBBS student suicide case. Case Brief A student’s father named Uday Singh Shankhwar lodged a complaint against five persons, which include the college principal Dr Sangeeta Aneja and Controller of Examination Gaurav Singh under section 306 of Indian Penal Code.The Student Shailendra Shankhwar was 21 years old first year student found hanging from the ceiling of his hostel room at the medical college. According to the police Shankwar exam was on saturday and when he did not reach the examination hall the college staff went to the hostel…

The Delhi High court on Friday directed the medical board at the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash hospital to examine the woman seeking termination of her 33 weeks old fetus suffering from abnormality. Case Summary The petitioner is a 26 years old married woman, who is pregnant for 33 weeks and approached to the High court through advocates Prachi Nirwan, Pranjal Shekhar and Yaseen Siddiqui.The petitioner defined that she has undergone regular ultrasounds and no abnormality was reported. It was the first time on November 11 when the abnormality in the brain of the fetus was found. On November 14 another…

On Constitution day 26 Nov, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the contributions made by the women in the constituent assembly are rarely discussed. There is a need to make the youth of the country aware of them. During the event organized at the Supreme Court, the Prime Minister made specific recommendations to Dakshayani Velayudhan, a Dalit woman who was a member of the constituent assembly. He said that in the past there were 15 women members in the Constituent Assembly. He said this is also a feature of the Constitution which has become even more relevant in recent times.…

The Punjab government has transferred 22 IAS officers and 10 PCS officers. Senior IAS officer Ravneet Kaur is posted as special chief secretary of food processing with immediate effect, according to official orders from the Punjab government. The transferred officers include 1988 batch IAS officer Ravneet Kaur who has been posted as Special Chief Secretary, food processing, with add-on charge of jails replacing Anurag Agarwal, who has been posted in her place as Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), cooperation, with add on charge as ACS parliamentary affairs, along with the charge as ACS elections. Malwinder Singh is the CEO, of Water…

With the direction of the Delhi High Court Telegram discloses the names, IP addresses, and phone numbers of the users accused of sharing infringing material. Background of case Court on August 30 in Neetu Singh Vs TELEGRAM FZ LLC had rejected Telegram’s argument that it cannot share the data relating to users or creators of the channel because the data is stored in data servers in Singapore and the law there prohibits such disclosure. The court noted that Telegram was blocking the channel which was spreading infringing material but the users were creating new channels and operating in private mode.…

The Supreme court issues notice to center, Attorney General on pleas to recognize same sex marriage under Special Marriage Act. The Supreme court on two PIL filled by the gay couple seeking recognition of same sex marriage under the Special Marriage Act, 1954 issued notice to the Attorney general of India and to centre government that returnable in four weeks. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justice Hima Kohli heard the matter before seeking the response of the Central government and its top law officer. Brief of case The first PIL was filed by…

The Supreme Court of India expressed dissatisfaction over the progress in the probe into illicit liquor cases in Punjab. The Supreme Court disapproved of the Punjab government’s action against the liquor mafia. The court said that the state is treating the issue with “Kid gloves”. The court observed that poor and downtrodden people are the “sufferers” of hooch tragedies. A bench of justices M R Shah and M M Sundresh said that no serious efforts seem to have been made to reach the real culprits who are in the business of manufacturing and transporting illegal liquor. Case History The problem…

Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud exhorted senior members of the bar association to pay decent salaries to the juniors, especially in big cities, in order to enable them to live a life of dignity. He said senior lawyers should not treat their juniors as slaves just because they themselves had to learn the law the hard way when they were starting out in this field of law. While speaking at a function organized by the Bar Council of India to congratulate him for recently taking up the mantle as the Chief Justice of India, he said that the…