Most of the websites which are delivering pornographic contents are at present in accessible in India, on several Internet Service Providers (ISP’s). With effect from August 1, 2015 most of the internet service providers are displaying either a blank page or “Directory does not exist”. Some browser displayed even the message “Your requested URL has…
Maygha Viswanat Being in the legal fraternity and as law students we often come across the term “Locus Standi.” This maxim forms the deciding factor when a case comes up before the court. It is thus the very basic requirement for the case to be heard by the presiding judge. In simple parlance it means,…
The most resonant judgment which the Apex Courtdelivered in the year 2014 was the one which cancelled around 200 coal mining licences, in Common Cause v. Union of India. It is the most important decision since its earlier judgment cancelling 2G spectrum licences. Brief Fact Coal is king and paramount Lord of industry is an old saying…
Bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M Sathyanarayanan of Madras High Court while dismissing a Public Interest Petition (PIL) which objected to the court granting four to five days of holidays on occasion of ‘north Indian’ festivals like Diwali, held that, “there is no north-south divide, but for the endeavours of persons…
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Bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M Sathyanarayanan of Madras High Court while dismissing a Public Interest Petition (PIL) which objected to the court granting four to five days of holidays on occasion of ‘north Indian’ festivals like Diwali, held that, “there is no north-south divide, but for the endeavours of persons…
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Supreme Court disapproved of a stand taken by the central government and said that, an effort has to be made to ensure that websites displaying advertisements shall not be in violation of the Indian law prohibiting sex determination of a feotus and “nothing contrary to laws of this country are advertised or shown on websites.”…
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The bench, comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana while hearing the Public Interest Litigation came up before them challenging the seal put up by officials on the temple in a village in Thiruporur taluk in the district, upheld the act of authorities in locking a temple in Kancheepuram district due to…
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Aastha Mehta, Student of Law, GNLU, Gandhinagar Supreme Court has again taken favored stand for the citizens of the country, by criticizing the Government for not having any framework of rules for clinical trials in India. In a PIL filed by NGO Swasthya Adhikar Manch, the apex Court has directed the government that no clinical…