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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 02 December 2024
Last week, the Bombay High Court imposed a Rs5 lakh cost on a litigant for filing a frivolous writ petition that wasted over two and a half hours of the court's time (GB Industries Reg. Partnership v Minakshi Balasao Magdum and Ors).   The Bench, comprising Justices GS Kulkarni and Advait M...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 November 2024
Almost 28% of the grains supplied by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and state governments never reach the intended beneficiaries, which amounts to a financial loss of about Rs69,108 crore, equivalent to roughly 20mn (million) metric tonnes (MMT) of rice and wheat. North-eastern states...

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Continuing what we said in a previous article on the subject, once we know the market segment for the non-profit organisation (NPO), in terms of social class, income groups, geography, sex, age and education, we can more effectively direct our promotion, advertising and personal selling to this...

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Abhimanyu Hazarika (Bar  and   Bench) 29 November 2024
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has named eight lawyers as accused in its first information report (FIR) lodged pursuant to the Supreme Court's directions in connection with a fake vakalatnama case. (Bhagwan Singh vs State of Uttar Pradesh and Another).   The FIR states that the...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 28 November 2024
The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that Stage IV of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP), currently in force to tackle the severe air quality in Delhi, will continue to remain in operation till at least 2 December 2024 (In Re: Commission for Air Quality Management (Air Pollution) and...

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Abhimanyu Hazarika (Bar  and   Bench) 28 November 2024
The Supreme Court recently took strong exception to the gender discrimination faced be elected women representatives in India, particularly at Panchayat (village council) levels (Sonam Lakra v State of Chhattisgarh and ors).   The Court was dealing with a case where it found that the ouster...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 November 2024
Following the withdrawal of Rs2,000 banknotes from circulation and processing of these notes in large numbers, counterfeit notes detected in this denomination increased during FY23-24, the Parliament was informed. During the past six years, total number of counterfeit notes of Rs500 Mahatma...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 November 2024
Rahul Gandhi, Congress party leader and leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, had demanded the immediate arrest of Gautam Adani after the billionaire industrialist was charged in the US for alleged bribery and fraud.   Mr Gandhi was speaking in a press conference hours after the US...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 November 2024
Referring to the US district court (eastern district court of New York)'s recent indictment of several Indian companies, including Adani Green and Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), the People's Commission on Public Sector and Public Services (PCPSPS) says these events raise disturbing...

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Shreehari Paliath (IndiaSpend) 21 November 2024
Shishir (name changed) was released on cash bail in the middle of October 2024, after spending three years as an undertrial prisoner in Thane jail in a case of murder. A mason and carpenter, the 35-year-old from Palghar whose trial is yet to begin is from a poor family—his father is a mason,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 November 2024
The Bombay High Court recently ordered 1 lakh in compensation to a woman from Mumbai for the unlawful arrest of her husband, while also highlighting serious concerns about police misconduct (Ratna Chandrakant Vannam And Anr v. Tukaram K. Jadhav).   The Bench comprising Justices Bharati Dangre...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 November 2024
Vinod Tawde, national general secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was allegedly caught red-handed in Virar while distributing money to voters by Bahujan Vikas Aghadi (BVA) activists. The BJP, however, denied the allegations, saying BVA chief Hitendra Thakur's claim was nothing more than...

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Varsha Torgalkar (IndiaSpend) 19 November 2024
Balasaheb Solanki, a 52-year-old farmer from Parbhani district in Maharashtra’s Marathwada region, is keen to cultivate sugarcane, oilseeds and pulses for the rabi season (winter harvest), which begins around November and lasts till late March. But his five acres of land does not have...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 November 2024
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered that physical classes for all school students up to grade 12 in Delhi should be suspended for the time being in light of the acute air pollution that has gripped the national capital, says a report from Bar & Bench.  A bench of justice Abhay S Oka and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 November 2024
Conrad K Sangma-led National People's Party (NPP) on Sunday withdrew support from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in Manipur, saying that the state under Nongthombam Biren Singh as chief minister (CM) has 'completely failed' to resolve the crisis and restore normalcy in the...

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Many years ago, there was an article that appeared in the US press under the title of ‘Why can’t you sell brotherhood like soap?’ What it meant was can we sell causes and non-profit organisations (NPOs) in the same way as selling products like detergents, soap and shampoo?   As more and more...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 13 November 2024
In a significant verdict, the Supreme Court on Wednesday held that the house of a person accused or convicted of a crime cannot be demolished by State authorities citing the criminal background of the concerned person and such bulldozer action is illegal and unconstitutional (In Re: Directions...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 November 2024
While pulling up the Maharashtra government, Mumbai police and also the BrihanMumbai municipal corporation (BMC), the Bombay High Court (HC) observed that there is not a single lane in the entire Mumbai which is free from hawkers, says a report from LiveLaw.in   A division bench of justice...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 11 November 2024
The Bombay High Court on Monday granted medical bail to Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal in connection with a money laundering case filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).   Single-judge Justice NJ Jamadar had earlier granted interim medical bail to Goyal to undergo cancer treatment. The...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 November 2024
In 2023, five journalists were killed and 226 were targeted by State agencies, non-State political actors, anti-social elements and criminals, according to the India Press Freedom Annual Report compiled by the NGO India Freedom of Expression Initiative. The report, ‘Arrest, Wrongful Detention...

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