constitutional law

OVERVIEW · The three-judge bench of Supreme Court comprised of Justice NV Ramana, Justice Surya Kant and Justice Aniruddha Bose, who gave this climacteric judgement. · The judgement upholds the conviction of the two accus..

Article 19 (1) (g) of the Constitution empowers every citizen of this country to have the vested Right to Trade or Business. This right is subject to certain reasonable restrictions. E.g. to commence any trade or business obtaining a license from government authorities is a must. This restriction should be reasonable. This was affirmed by the Supreme court..

KEY TAKEAWAYS The Allahabad High Court recently observed that a person's name is an expression included under Article 19(1) Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression It observed, that changing name, being a fundamental right cannot be curtailed by any rules which do not have..

SYNOPSIS The Special Advisory Jurisdiction has been conferred upon the Supreme Court through Article 143 of the Constitution. In accordance with it, the President may, at any point of time, seek opinion, from the Supreme Court, in form of an advice, on such matters which, he think..

Two reports are related to the Department of Legal Affairs (Implementation Cell) as under Report No.184 was submitted under the Sixteenth Law Commission headed by Chairman: Mr. Justice B. P. Jeevan Reddy (2000-2001) and Chairman Mr. Justice Jagannadha Rao (2002-2003) on "The Legal Education & Professional Training an..

SUMMARY Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain on the behalf of five individualshas filed petition in the Supreme Court for striking down Section 494 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 seeking declaration of bigamy as unconstitutional for all religions. It has also praye..

WHAT IS ARTICLE 32 It is one of the fundamental rights listed in the Constitution that each citizen is entitled. Article 32 gives the right to move the Supreme Court by appropriate proceedings for the enforcement of the rights conferred by in Part III of the Constitution. It sta..

Department of Legal Affairs under the Ministry of Law & Justice has been allocated the task related to Law Commission as per the Government of India {Allocation of Business} Rules, 1961. So far, there have been 22 Law Commissions have been constituted and 277 reports are available in the public domain. The Reports of the La..

WHO IS ARNAB GOSWAMI? Arnab Ranjan Goswami is an Indian news anchor, who is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Republic Media Network. His Republic Media Network presently owns and operates two channels namely Republic TV in English and Republic Bharat in Hindi. p style..

MATTER IN ISSUE Ramya, a software engineer wanted to marry her colleague and lover Wajeed. Wajeed's mother had no objection but Ramya's parents did not give their consent. She submitted to the Court, on being produced before it, that she is staying at Mahila Dakshatha Sa..

MATTER IN ISSUE • A batch of petitions were filed in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the Tribunal, Appellate Tribunal and other Authorities (qualifications, experience and other conditions of service of members) Rules, 2020 for contravening the principle of separation of powers. p style="te..

OVERVIEW • The case in reference is The State of Uttar Pradesh &Anr. vs. Prem Chandra [SLP (C) Diary No(s).  971/2020] where the Coram were Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hrishikesh Roy. • The Supreme Court while dismissing the Special Leave Petition filed by the Stat..

WHAT DOES THE THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DEAL WITH? • At present the Indian Supreme Court deals with 400 types of cases such as matrimonial matters , landlord-tenant disputes, bail matters and land acquisition cases, etc. • Contrary to its counterpart courts, such as in United ..

BACKGROUND • An original application was filed in Central Administrative Tribunal, Patna pertaining to the restricting of the post of Central Excise Inspector with the higher scale of Superintended in Bihar. • The view of tribunal in the application was challenged in High Court..

SUMMARY • The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition filed by 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Muhammad Moin Faridulla challenging its March 21, 2013 decision upholding the sentence of rigorous imprisonment for life. • Qureshi, who was 17 years and 3 months old when he loaded vehicle..