Apex court

What's important to make note of is that the court said that it is not necessary for the father coparcener to have been alive at the time of the 2005 Amendment.

The Apex Court has ordered that all government and private testing labs do the COVID-19 test for free.

In 2018, President Ram Nath Kovind gave his stamp of approval to an ordinance amending the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), putting home buyers on par with banks as financial creditors.

After the wall was built, in May 2015, a male elephant bashed its head against the wall while trying to break it, finally dying of haemorrhage.

Prior to this, a number of students had approached the Delhi High Court, aggrieved by the changes in the admission criteria. However, the Delhi HC held the MCI norms to be “legal and valid”.

A woman of “easy virtue” also could not be raped by a person for that reason, the bench added.

About a month ago, in what can only be described as a liberating order, the Apex Court de-fanged the British era Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which deemed that gay sex is a punishable offence. With the passing of the order, people from the LGBTQ+ community in India are now under no legal threat.

By a writ petition filed in 2014 by the Delhi-based NGO, We the Citizens, the Supreme Court looked into the constitutional validity of Article 35A, which essentially grants special privileges to the ‘permanent residents’ of Jammu and Kashmir.

While many awards to affected home-buyers have been passed before, this order is unique as it potentially blocks a major loophole in the real estate regulations.

The Supreme Court has decided to extend the mandatory linking of Aadhaar with services until the Constitutional Bench passes its judgement.