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The case of Swami Achyutanand Tirth & Ors. Vs. Union of India & Ors. has been pending since 2012. The expose that has ensued due to Supreme Court orders is both disturbing and frightening. Milk is supposed to be a complete food. Everyone from children to adults drink it. Indians regularly consume it from their morning tea, […]

Supreme Court justices SJ Mukhopadhaya and NV Ramana have set aside a Calcutta high court order that declined to cancel the bail of former NUJS Kolkata assitant registrar Siddhartha Guha, who is accused of having sexually harassed another staff member at the college, reported the Times of India. The alleged victim, represented by advocates Siddharth Dave

The Supreme Court on Friday said it was not the job of the courts to examine the contours of a government policy and whether there could have been a better version of a particular policy followed by the government. “… it is clear as noon day that it is not within the domain of the

Justice Sadhana Jadhav of the Bombay High Court, while upholding the conviction of a man charged under Section 498 (A) of the Indian Penal Code, held that forcing a woman to intercourse with other men and setting it as a condition for consummation of their marriage amounted to cruelty. The Court said, “P. W. 1 has

During the hearing of a rent control matter, Senior Counsel Vikas Singh has made scathing allegations against a former judge.As per the reports of Times of India, Mr. Singh alleged that just a month before his retirement, a  former judge delivered a verdict on February 11 in a case involving the question that was raised unsuccessfully before

Senior advocate Vikas Singh alleged before a Supreme Court bench of justices SJ Mukhopadhaya and NV Ramana that an ex-Supreme Court judge made a ruling on 11 February, which helped the judge’s sister in a similar case under the Bombay Rent Act, in which she allegedly cited her brother’s judgment, reported Times of India. Singh claimed

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Monday slammed doctors, saying the profession was no longer regarded a service and “all of us have suffered at the hands of doctors at one time or the other.” A bench of Justices V M Kanade and Anuja Prabhudessai made the observations on a public interest litigation converted from

NEW DELHI: Employees at Ordnance Factories (OF) – who have been contesting their omission from the benefits of the sixth pay commission for over seven years have finally more than one reason to rejoice. Reining in the principle of ‘equal pay for equal work’ at public offices, the Delhi High Court has directed the Centre

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday pulled up Haryana authorities after they failed to produce a self-styled godman, against whom a non-bailable warrant was issued last week in a contempt case, citing resistance by his followers. Though Sant Rampal did not appear, his aide Ram Kumar Dhaka was arrested and produced in the court

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a plea seeking to rename India as Bharat and asked the petitioner to approach an appropriate authority with its plea. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu asked the petitioner to first make an appropriate representation before an authority in support of