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Bar  and   Bench 28 March 2025
The Supreme Court of India on Friday delivered a landmark verdict on the protection of free speech in India as it quashed a Gujarat Police case against Congress Member of Parliament (MP) Imran Pratapgarhi over a poem uploaded by him on social media.   The bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 March 2025
The Union ministry of finance (MoF) has clarified that income-tax (I-T) officials will not have direct access to personal emails, social media accounts and bank details of taxpayers. However, in cases of search and seizure operations, authorised officers may gain access to electronic records if...

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The central information commission (CIC) has raised serious concerns over the lack of transparency in the re-evaluation process of the assistant personnel officer (APO) examination, directing the National Academy of Indian Railways (NAIR) to implement measures that would ensure fairness and...

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Praisy Thomas (Bar  and   Bench) 26 March 2025
The Kerala High Court on Wednesday questioned the Central government on whether it intends to consider writing off loans for the victims of the 2024 landslides in Wayanad (In Re: Prevention and Management of Natural Disasters in Kerala).   A Division Bench of Justice AK Jayasankaran Nambiar...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 March 2025
The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled in favour of NP Ponnamma in a prolonged family property dispute against her brother, NP Saseendran, affirming her legal ownership of the contested land. The judgement, delivered by a bench of justice JB Pardiwala and justice R Mahadevan, upheld the Kerala High...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 March 2025
In a significant ruling, the Mumbai bench of the income tax appellate tribunal (ITAT) provided relief to Anil Dattaram Pitale concerning the taxability of a new, bigger-sized flat received in a redevelopment project. The tribunal set aside the addition made under section 56(2)(x) of the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 March 2025
The Mumbai traffic police have recorded a staggering 65.12 lakh or 6.52mn (million) traffic violations over the past 13 months, resulting in fines amounting to Rs526 crore. Despite stringent measures, only Rs157 crore has been collected so far, leaving massive fines worth Rs369 crore still...

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India is on the rise as a global tourism powerhouse. A McKinsey report says that outbound Indian tourism is already a ‘vital source market for global tourism’ and is expected to double by 2030. Recognising this, many countries have eased visa restrictions and introduced direct flights and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 March 2025
The prestigious 2024 Maharashtra Bhushan Award has been conferred upon Ram Sutar, the celebrated sculptor behind iconic works such as the ‘Statue of Unity’. The announcement was made by Maharashtra chief minister (CM) Devendra Fadnavis in the legislative assembly and deputy CM (DCM) Eknath...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 March 2025
In a landmark judgement, the Madras High Court has ruled that senior citizens are entitled to revoke gift deeds if their children fail to take care of them, even in the absence of an express condition in the deed. The ruling came in response to an appeal challenging the cancellation of a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 March 2025
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Grok, has recently come under scrutiny by India's ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) following incidents where the chatbot used Hindi slang and abusive language in its responses on X (formerly Twitter). Separately, Mr...

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Virender Singh, a celebrated Deaflympics athlete, professional wrestler, and Padma Shri awardee who filed a right to information (RTI) application seeking details of the selection process for the prestigious Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award was denied information by the central public...

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Ummar Jamal (Bar  and   Bench) 19 March 2025
The Supreme Court recently urged State governments to take a policy call on how to curb unreasonable charges and the exploitation of patients in private hospitals (Siddharth Dalmia & Anr. vs. Union of India & Ors.).   A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotishwar Singh opined that it may not...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 19 March 2025
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that while many States boast of supplying subsidised essential goods to those in need through the ration system, such ration often do not reach the intended beneficiaries - Below Poverty Line (BPL) families.   A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 18 March 2025
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to examine the plea seeking disclosure of final authenticated data of voter turnout in all polling stations within 48 hours of the polling.   The plea was filed by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Trinamool...

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Shreehari Paliath (IndiaSpend) 18 March 2025
India’s 11 richest states allocated Rs 1.97 lakh crore in 2024-25 for the functioning of their justice systems—including the police, judiciary, prison and legal aid—which was 36% more than the spending in 2022-23, according to a new report by India Justice Report (IJR), a collective that...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 17 March 2025
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.  -Thomas Szasz in The Second Sin, 1974   "I have a file on you."   - MK Narayanan's routine threat to his adversaries as national security adviser (NSA) quoted in Sanjay Baru's book The...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 17 March 2025
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.  -Thomas Szasz in The Second Sin, 1974   "I have a file on you."   - MK Narayanan's routine threat to his adversaries as national security adviser (NSA) quoted in Sanjay Baru's book The...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench 13 March 2025
A woman has approached the Bombay High Court seeking action against unauthorised use of her photograph by political parties and various States in advertising their schemes (Namrata Ankush Kawale and anr v Tukaram Nivrutti Karve).   As per her plea, both private and government entities have...

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A right to information (RTI) applicant seeking information on those investigation reports by the serious fraud investigation office (SFIO), which have been completed by investigative officers, has got some respite from the central information commissioner (CIC). The CIC directed the SFIO, which...

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