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Amity Law Review
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Call for Papers | Amity Law Review (ALR), Vol.20, 2024 [August 30, 2024]

Amity Law School invites papers for Amity Law Review (ALR), Vol.20, 2024.

Published on June 12, 2024June 12, 2024By Bhumika Indulia
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amity law review
Call For PapersLaw School News

Call for Papers | Amity Law Review (ALR), Vol.19, 2023 | November 24, 2023

About the Journal Amity Law Review (ALR) is a double-blind peer reviewed/refereed journal of Amity Law School, and is in circulation since

Published on August 11, 2023August 11, 2023By Bhumika Indulia
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Law School NewsOthers

MNLU Mumbai | 10 days Capacity Building Workshop on Research Methodology & Introduction to Statistical Package for Social Science

About MNLUM:- MNLU Mumbai established under the Maharashtra National Law University Act 2014 on 20th March 2014, is one of the premier

Published on March 21, 2023March 21, 2023By Bhumika Indulia
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Op EdsOP. ED.

Cognizance of Criminal Contempt by Single Judge of a High Court under the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 in Absence of Any Rules Framed by the High Court — Permissibility

by B. Shravanth Shanker† and Monalisa Kosaria††

Published on February 17, 2023February 16, 2023By Bhumika Indulia
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Allahabad High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Allahabad High Court sets aside Ghazipur Sessions Judge order granting superior class to UP-ex MLA Mukhtar Ansari, in prison

Allahabad High Court said that Mukhtar Ansari is a known gangster, a dreaded criminal and bahubali and more than 50 criminal cases have been registered against him.

Published on January 20, 2023January 25, 2023By Editor_4
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Call For PapersLaw School News

Call for Papers- Sun Law Journal Volume I [Submit Abstract by 20th December]

    About The SUN LAW JOURNAL It is the flagship journal of the School of Law, Sandip University, Nashik, Maharashtra. It

Published on December 3, 2022December 3, 2022By Bhumika Indulia
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Allahabad High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Allahabad High Court rejects BJP MLA Vikram Saini’s plea to suspend conviction in Muzaffarnagar Riots case

  Allahabad High Court: In an appeal filed by Bharatiya Janata party MLA Vikram Singh Saini against the judgment passed by the

Published on November 26, 2022November 30, 2022By Editor_4
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Punjab and Haryana High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Punjab & Haryana High Court grants bail to Kalyani Singh in Sippy Sidhu’s murder case; CBI lacked thorough investigation

Punjab & Haryana High Court: While allowing the instant bail petition preferred by Kalyani Singh against the FIR dated 13-4-2016 under Sections

Published on September 15, 2022By Editor_4
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Madras High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Madras High Court allows termination of 27+weeks pregnancy of minor child victim of 13 years; Foetus to be preserved for criminal case under POCSO

Madras High Court: Abdul Quddhose, J. permitted the termination of pregnancy of 27+ week of a minor child victim of offence under

Published on July 19, 2022August 5, 2022By Editor_4
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Karnataka High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Karnataka High Court | Illicit relationship with husband of the complainant not necessary ground to constitute offence under S. 498-A IPC

    Karnataka High Court: Hemant Chandangoudar J. quashed the FIR against accused 5 being the woman who had illicit relations with

Published on June 27, 2022May 14, 2025By Editor_4
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Case BriefsSupreme Court

Person languishes in jail for 2 years despite being granted bail by Supreme Court; Supreme Court criticizes Trial Judge for misinterpreting bail order

Supreme Court: In a significant case, the 4-judges Bench comprising of Uday Umesh Lalit, S. Ravindra Bhat, P.S. Narasimha and Sudhanshu Dhulia,

Published on May 21, 2022May 27, 2022By Editor_4
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Power of Revision vis a vis Stage of Framing of charges; Strong suspicion at the initial stage is sufficient for the court to proceed with framing of charges

Rajasthan High Court: Pushpendra Singh Bhati, J., refused to interfere with the impugned order due to lack of any legal infirmity. The

Published on April 27, 2022May 6, 2022By Editor_4
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Karnataka High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Kar HC | Customers caught in brothel cannot be prosecuted for immoral trafficking under Immoral Traffic Prevention Act, 1956

Karnataka High Court: M Nagaprasanna J. allowed the criminal petition and quashed the proceedings in Crime No.347/2021 pending before the 32nd Additional

Published on April 15, 2022May 4, 2022By Editor_4
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

[IT Act] AP HC | ”…being an educated man and Software Engineer, he is not justified in making such irresponsible comments against the Judiciary and the High Court”, Bail denied

Andhra Pradesh High Court: Cheekathi Manavendranath Roy J. dismissed the criminal petition and granted bail to the accused advocates and denied bail

Published on March 1, 2022March 4, 2022By Editor_4
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

AP HC considered alleged attempt to threatening witness as a vague allegation; Cancellation of bail sought was rejected

Andhra Pradesh  High Court: Cheekati Manavendranath Roy, J., dismissed the criminal petition being devoid of merits. This criminal petition under Section 439(2)

Published on February 28, 2022February 28, 2022By Editor_4
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Proceedings under Domestic Violence Act, whether criminal or civil, will challenge to them be maintainable under Art. 227 of Constitution? Madras HC answers

Madras High Court: G.R. Swaminathan, J., held that irrespective of whether the proceedings under Central Act 43 of 2005 are of civil

Published on June 14, 2021June 25, 2021By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Chh HC | Whether in a criminal proceeding, S. 14(1) of Limitation Act, 1963 would be applicable? Court not to apply beneficent provisions in a pedantic manner  

Chhattisgarh High Court: Sanjay K Agrawal J., dismissed the petition being devoid of merits. The facts of the case are such that

Published on December 5, 2020By Editor_4
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Ori HC | Default in Flat Buyer Agreement given a criminal colour of cheating and fraud under Penal Code 1860; Filing of Criminal Complaint about settling Contractual Disputes is Abuse of Process of Law

Orissa High Court: S. K. Panigrahi J., granted bail and directed the petitioner company to pay the amount in accordance with the

Published on September 9, 2020September 18, 2020By Editor_4
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Guj HC | Out of work, money and food, migrants workers wished to go back to their hometowns, instead were sent to jail: “More the victims, certainly not criminals”

Gujarat High Court: Paresh Upadhyay, J., while addressing a matter with regard to granting bail to the migrant workers who were locked in

Published on June 25, 2020October 3, 2023By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Chh HC | An advocate cannot be held criminally liable merely because his opinion is found not acceptable or for want of greater professional competence

Chhattisgarh High Court: Sanjay K. Agarwal, J., quashed the criminal proceedings against the petitioner, an Advocate, who was arraigned in a criminal case

Published on December 7, 2019December 12, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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