Tehseen S. Poonawalla v. Union of India
This Judgment was referred to in the Gurgaon Nawaz case Issue. In Tehseen S. Poonawalla, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court (comprising then Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and D.Y. Chandrachud) set out ‘preventive’, ‘remedial’ and ‘punitive’ measures for the Central and state governments as well as law enforcement agencies to deal with the increasing incidents of lynching in India.
Courts must come to children, says SC: IN Re Children In Street Situations
The order came in a plea that victims of child trafficking, mostly based in far-flung and under-developed areas of the country, should not be made to travel long distances during the COVID pandemic to trial courts, usually located in metros, where they were brought and held by their captors. The court confirmed a standard operating procedure (SOP) prepared by its amicus curiae, advocate Gaurav Agrawal, and senior advocate Anita Shenoy, for recording the evidence of child witnesses through videoconferencing.
SC on Death Penalty PAPPU VS THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH
Supreme Court (SC) commuted the death sentence of a man, convicted of the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl, to life imprisonment. The judgment may become a significant precedent to the anti-death penalty cause
Indian Ex Servicemen Movement & Ors. Vs. Union of India & Ors The Supreme Court upheld the central government’s decision on One Rank, One Pension (OROP) for defence forces and said that it does not find any constitutional infirmity in the manner in which it is being implemented
No gender cap in orchestra bars SC strikes down Maharashtra law limiting the number of women musicians (Hotel Priya, A Proprietorship v State of Maharashtra
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