Author: Khushboo.Jain

Oran ‘Sacred Groves’ of India are forest fragments of differing sizes that are traditionally found in the State of Rajasthan in India. These forests are considered divine and preserved by rural communities. These forest patches denote a spiritual and religious symbol of nature gods and goddesses, as believed by people of different faiths and religions across the Indian nation. All ‘sacred groves’ in India to be termed as ‘forests’ The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India gave orders to the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC) to deal with the management and governance of sacred groves across the nation…

The Apex Court commuted the death sentence of the convict in the case of Sambhubhai Raisangbhai Padiyar v. State of Gujarat for proven murder and sexual assault of a four-year-old minor boy. A three-judge bench of Justice BR Gavai, Justice Aravind Kumar, and Justice KV Viswanathan ordered the appellant to undergo rigorous imprisonment of twenty-five years without remission. The Supreme Court made this decision overruling the order of the death penalty imposed on the convict earlier by the High Court of Gujrat for offenses stated under sections 302, 364, and 377 of the Indian Penal Code along with section 4…

The founding leader of the National People’s Power (NPP) and Hon’ble President of Sri Lanka, Anura Kumar Dissanayake, is visiting India for 3 days. His visit has been scheduled after the sweeping victory of the left-wing National People’s Power (NPP) coalition in the snap parliamentary elections of Sri Lanka. This is the first foreign trip made by President Dissanayake since his winning of the popular vote in the Sri Lanka’s Presidential Elections. President Dissanayake meets with Indian political administration officials Diplomatic officials, including Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Dr. S. Murugan, warmly welcomed Dissanayake upon his arrival in…

A sitting judge of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav is likely to appear before the Collegium of the Supreme Court of India that will be headed by the Chief Justice of India, Justice Sanjeev Khanna. The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India took note of newspaper reports of a speech given by the High Court Judge Justice Yadav and has asked Allahabad High Court to submit a report on this matter. The accused judge is also expected to explain his stand on the matter to the court soon. Justice Yadav purportedly made tendentious remarks while…

An appalling video surfaced on the internet on August 23rd, 2024, of a classroom in Neha Public School at Khubbapur village under Mansurpur Police Station, Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh. The teacher was captured on camera targeting a seven years old Muslim toddler with communal remarks and was also seen ordering other children in the class to slap him for being from the Muslim community. The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India termed this incident as ‘a failure on the part of the state’ and pulled on Yogi Adityanath’s rule for the impact of misinterpretation of the preamble as stated in the…

11-year-old Ridhima Pandey filed an appeal at the Supreme Court of India regarding the failure of the Government of India in treating the carbon emissions emitted effectively and despite scientific innovation. The petition had been originally filed in 2017 with the National Green Tribunal, which was later submitted before the Hon’ble Supreme Court after the NGT dismissed the case in 2019. The plea on environmental law sheds light upon the extent of damage caused to the environment leading to rapid global climate change. The appeal also highlights other serious environmental issues such as ice glaciers melting in the Himalayan ranges,…

NALSA (National Legal Service Authority) celebrated the ‘International Human Rights Day’ on 10th December, at The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India. The theme for the event this year is ‘Every Right, Every Life’. India was commemorating the 77th anniversary of the adoption of UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) of the United Nations. Newly appointed Chief Justice of India Justice Sanjiv Khanna addressed the gathering with a speech on the significance of human rights. The event organized by NALSA, was also graced by Justice BR Gavai (Executive Chairman of NALSA), Justice Surya Kant (Chairman of Supreme Court Legal Service Committee),…

The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India commutated the sentence of death penalty to life imprisonment for the Wipro BPO employee rape – murder case of 2007. The two men had been convicted and awarded death penalty by the State High court and the Supreme court previously. The convicts had raped and murdered a 22-years’ old woman, who was a Wipro company’s employee in the BPO sector. On November 1, 2007, the victim took the regular cab that had been in a contract with the employer Wipro, in a suburb of Pune, in order to report for her night duty. The…

The country recently witnessed disturbing events related to fresh Maoist killings in Chhattisgarh. The killings are being viewed as an aftermath and revenge tactic following the police encounter of the Maoists, where 7 Maoist leaders were killed, including a 20 lakh bounty leader in a gunfight in Telangana’s Mulugu District. It has been assessed as one of the most violent and fierce gunfights in several years between security personnel and the Maoist groups. Two gruesome murders in two days Maoists immediately jumped to a response for causing fright amongst the villages and killed two women in two consecutive days over…

The nation has been experiencing anguish over a notice issued by a civil court in Ajmer on November 27th on a suit claiming the existence of a Shiva temple at the site of the world-famous Dargah of Sufi mystic Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, which has a history dating back to the 13th century. Moinuddin Chishti’s Dargah is visited by thousands of devotees from around the world, from various religions and castes. Vishnu Gupta: Strong traces of militant hindu nationalism In the Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti’s shrine case, the plaintiff, Vishnu Gupta, 40, from Uttar Pradesh, started living in Delhi at a very…