A few months ago, the Pune City Police had arrested five suspected members of the banned Communist Party of India [CPI] (Maoist) in January 2018, who had allegedly organized an event called Elgaar Parishad in Koregaon-Bhima village near Pune (Event) in…
READ MORERecently, the Supreme Court of India had received a letter dated 31.07.2018 (Letter) from a Human Rights Defender in Patna, Bihar in the case of Sampurna Behura vs. Union of India and others, raising concerns over recent alleged…
READ MOREAs per the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Ordinance, 2018 which is an amendment to Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC), the status of homebuyers is classified as financial creditors under the laws of insolvency and bankruptcy. A…
READ MOREIn a recent judgement passed in the matter of State Bank of India vs. V. Ramakrishnan, decided on 14.08.2018, by Justice R. Nariman and Justice Indu Malhotra, the Supreme Court held that the moratorium period allowed under the…
READ MOREThe Competition Commission of India (CCI) is an authority established under the Competition Act 2002 as amended thereof (Act) to promote competition, to protect interests of consumers, to prevent practices having adverse effect on competition, etc. Recently, Wal-Mart…
READ MORECybercrime, generally, means any internet activity which constitutes an offence. With the increasing use of computer and other gadgets based on internet, a wide range of new crimes have evolved in the society. Such offences are governed by…
READ MOREIn response to a Right to Information (RTI) query relating to the collection and disbursements of cash payments by e-commerce companies, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has reportedly clarified that e-commerce merchants or payment intermediaries such as…
READ MOREIn the recent times, a number of cases have come to light where one or more persons are tortured or beaten to death by a group of people who take matters of law and order into their own…
READ MOREThe Government of India has recently released the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 as well as a report by Justice B.N. Srikrishna Committee of Experts on data protection (Report) on 27.07.2018, which would ensure regulation of personal data…
READ MOREAs part of a memorial and tribute for the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the Union Cabinet, chaired by the Honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the scheme of a nationwide remission of certain categories of…
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