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The Right to Information (RTI) request to the income-tax (I-T) commissioner’s office, wherein the applicant demanded copies of his own audit report, has been prolonging for over three years, thanks to this public authority’s dilly-dallying, even petitioning the High Court (HC) and sitting on...

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Ummar Jamal (Bar  and   Bench) 06 March 2025
The Supreme Court recently granted interim bail to an accused in a fatal road accident case after the accused's father agreed to provide 1 crore in compensation for the orphaned children who lost both parents in the accident (Jay Chandrahas Gharat v. The State of Maharashtra) A bench of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 March 2025
Following public outrage over road digging and concretisation, even on roads in good condition, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has banned new road excavations across Mumbai from 22nd February 2025. For ongoing projects, which have worsened air quality and caused traffic jams, BMC...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 March 2025
In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court has quashed a first information report (FIR) filed against retired army officer and bestselling author, captain Rakesh Walia, declaring the case to be an 'abuse of the process of law'. The apex court found that the 39-year-old woman, who had lodged...

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Ratna Singh (Bar  and   Bench) 04 March 2025
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) recently directed the Animal Welfare Board, Haryana to investigate dog bite cases in the State and submit an Action Taken Report (ATR).   The incident came to light after a news article published data provided by the Union Minister of Fisheries,...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 03 March 2025
The Bombay High Court on Friday issued notice in a petition challenging the suspension of a Mumbai-based doctor's LinkedIn account which had made critical remarks about ed-tech company Byju’s.   A bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Neela Gokhale asked the Grievance Appellate Committee...

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Author Dibya Das, who writes under the pen name Kollorob, invoked the Right to Information (RTI) Act with the central public information officer (CPIO) of the department of consumer affairs, seeking details on an ongoing copyright infringement case and alleged irregularities concerning legal...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 February 2025
US president Donald Trump has unveiled a plan to replace the current EB-5 immigrant investor visa program with a new 'gold card'. This system would allow foreign investors to obtain US citizenship by investing US$5mn (million).     The new proposal aims to address issues of fraud and...

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Kumarsinh Dabhi (IndiaSpend) 25 February 2025
In 2022, as many as 239,188 cases out of 268,038 cases filed under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO, 2012), were awaiting trial, a pendency rate of 89.2%, according to data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).   A lack of infrastructure and judges...

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Uttara Vaid 20 February 2025
On 1 April 2024, the Indian government introduced significant amendments to the Public Liability Insurance Act (PLIA) through the Jan Vishwas Act, followed by further amendments to the Rules on 17 December 2024. These changes have substantially increased insurance coverage limits and...

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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has come under fire, for the third time now, by the Bombay High Court (HC), for failing to fulfil its constitutional duty under Article 21, which guarantees the fundamental right to life and personal liberty, as well as for its lack of response to multiple...

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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has come under fire, for the third time now, by the Bombay High Court (HC), for failing to fulfil its constitutional duty under Article 21, which guarantees the fundamental right to life and personal liberty, as well as for its lack of response to multiple...

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Giti Pratap (Bar  and   Bench) 19 February 2025
Amid the ongoing Maha Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that a concerning level of faecal coliform, an indicator of sewage contamination, was found in the river water in which Kumbh Mela pilgrims bathe.   The...

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Pooja Dash (IndiaSpend) 17 February 2025
In the Union Budget of 2025, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the government would provide internet connectivity to all secondary schools and public health centres in the country. But as of January 2025, through the government’s BharatNet programme, only 1.99 lakh villages out...

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India’s megacities—Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Pune—are all suffocating under the weight of their own success. Poor infrastructure, unplanned development, inadequate roads, crumbling public transport, massive traffic congestion, high pollution levels and rampant corruption...

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In November 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that for a fire insurance claim, if the insurer is not found to be responsible for starting the fire, then identifying the precise cause of the fire is not necessary. Since then, the insurance companies are under obligation to uphold the insurer’s terms...

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The Leaflet 12 February 2025
Last week, a two-judge Bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices Abhay S. Oka and N. Kotiswar Singh handed down an important decision regarding the furnishing of grounds of arrest to accused.    The Bench observed that informing the detained person of the grounds of arrest is not a...

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Bhavini Srivastava (Bar  and   Bench) 11 February 2025
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked Right to Information (RTI) activist Neeraj Sharma whether any public interest was involved in his request under the RTI Act for records of students who had cleared the Bachelor of Arts (BA) course from Delhi University (DU) in 1978, the year in which Prime...

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Meera Emmanuel (Bar  and   Bench) 10 February 2025
The Supreme Court on Monday sought the assistance of Attorney General (AG) R Venkataramani on a plea seeking a permanent ban on those convicted of criminal offences from contesting elections to the parliament and State assemblies.    The Court was hearing an interim application (IA) filed by...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 07 February 2025
In the context of 'promoting ease of living of residents' of India, “India Digital Financial Inclusion: Journey Map Report” (March 2019) by Mobile Solutions Technical Assistance and Research (mSTAR) project of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) refers to the Aadhaar and...

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