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Supreme Court | Can candidates left out of merit list claim equity with those selected on basis of erroneous concession given by State? Read SC discussion on Negative Equality

Supreme Court: A 3-Judge Bench of L. Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi, JJ. held that the candidates left out of

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Centre versus State| Who has the power to make law declaring any land within a State as a national highway? Supreme Court answers

Supreme Court: Dealing with the question whether the Parliament was competent to enact the National Highways Act, 1956 and the National Highway

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Supreme Court confirms pre-BALCO foreign awards cannot be challenged under Section 34 of Arbitration and Conciliation Act

Supreme Court: The question before the division bench of Ravindra Bhat and Indira Banerjee, JJ. was whether a foreign award rendered in

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Prior environmental clearance required before commencement of actual construction of a National Highway, not at the planning stage: SC

Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of AM Khanwilkar*, BR Gavai and Krishna Murari, JJ has held that it is not necessary for

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[Flashback] NGT | Read the decision highlighting the impact of rafting and camping sites on environment: Does camping fall under the ambit of ‘non-forest’ activity? || Detailed report

The concept of ‘Back to Nature’ ought not to be used for developing revenue at the cost of Environment and Ecology.

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Freedom & rights cannot armour those who promote & incite violence| 15 notable excerpts on ‘hate speech’ from Supreme Court’s verdict in Amish Devgan case

“In a polity committed to pluralism, hate speech cannot conceivably contribute in any legitimate way to democracy and, in fact, repudiates the right to equality.”

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CESTAT | Refund claim was to be given directly to the service recipient; Tribunal allows appeal holding that the refund claim was not hit by barred of unjust enrichment

Customs, Excise and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT): Ashok Jindal (Judicial Member) allowed an appeal against the order of dismissal by the

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Chh HC | Impugned order absolving the liability on insurance company was set aside due to erroneous dismissal of application under Order 8 Rule 1(3) CPC regarding production of license

Chhattisgarh High Court: A Division Bench of P.R. Ramchandra Menon and Parth Prateem Sahu JJ., set aside the impugned order and fastened

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Kar HC | Land falling within the category of 21(2) (a) Karnataka Land Revenue Rules, 1996 is not a government land but has private ownership; Compensation Granted

Karnataka High Court: Sachin Shankar Magadum J., disposed off the petition granting compensation to the petitioners as the defaulting land fell under

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NCDRC | Delivery of vehicle while withholding its original documents, would amount to illegal delivery of the vehicle? Commission answers

National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC): Anup K Thakur (Presiding Member), held that delivering the vehicle and withholding the documents of the said

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Utt HC | Candidate does not get an indefeasible right to get an appointment merely because there is name on selection list; Court dismisses petition

Uttarakhand High Court: Lok Pal Singh, J., dismissed a writ petition filed seeking writ in the nature of certiorari quashing the Office

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Rs.10 lakhs compensation & a confirmed seat for next academic year to a candidate who was illegally denied admission by a Medical College; directs SC

Supreme Court: In a case where a Medical College illegally denied admission to a candidate to Post-Graduate Medical Specialty course of MS

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RPSC 2nd Grade Teachers’ recruitment| SC saves appointees by not setting aside Rajasthan High Court’s ‘erroneous’ decision on correctness of answer key

“It was not open to the Division Bench to have examined the correctness of the questions and the answer key to come to a conclusion different from that of the Expert Committee.”

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Central Vista Project| SC rebukes Centre for going ahead with construction work but allows stone-laying of new Parliament building

Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjiv Khanna, JJ has rebuked Centre for moving ahead with the

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SC refuses to quash FIRs for remarks on Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti but Amish Devgan not to be arrested pending investigation

Supreme Court: The 2-judge bench of AM Khanwilkar and Sanjiv Khanna, JJ has refused to quash the FIRs registered against News18 Journalist

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P&H HC | Under S. 499 IPC, is it only the ‘family members’ or ‘near relatives’ of deceased person, against whom imputations have been made, can claim to be ‘persons aggrieved’? Court explains

Punjab and Haryana High Court: Sanjay Kumar, J., quashed the proceedings under Section 499 IPC against the petitioner holding that the complainant was

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Guj HC | Will permanent alimony granted to a Muslim woman be conditional to her remarriage? Detailed report untangling significance of ‘Permanent Alimony’ & ‘Periodical Maintenance’

Gujarat High Court: The Division Bench of J.B. Pardiwala and Vireshkumar B. Mayani, JJ., while addressing the issue of grant of permanent alimony

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[NEET] MP HC | Direction cannot be issued to open registration link in counselling after the last date; Court dismisses appeal

Madhya Pradesh High Court: The Division Bench of Prakash Shrivastava and Shailendra Shukla, JJ., dismissed a writ petition which was filed praying

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Telangana HC | Whether opening of Rowdy Sheet and keeping close surveillance on habitual offender would amount to infringement of his right to privacy? Court unfolds

Telangana High Court: P. Naveen Rao, J., while addressing the instant matter observed that, “When a citizen comes to the High Court alleging

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Chh HC | Whether writ of mandamus be filed under Art. 226 of the Constitution of India directing the jurisdictional police to register an offence under S. 154(1) CrPC?

Chhattisgarh High Court: Sanjay K. Agrawal J. dismissed the petition based on settled position of law. The facts of the case are