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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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Nearly 25 years ago, I was complaining to the late FC Kohli, a pioneer who put India on the software map of the world; and was vice-chairman of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), about the lack of social skills among many of our people in India. There is spitting on roads, on the pavement, at...

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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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