The Supreme Court has ruled that divorced Muslim women also have the right to claim maintenance under Section 125 of the CRPC, 1973, against their former husbands. Justices B.V. Nagarathna and Augustine George Masih dismissed a petition challenging a Telangana High Court directive to pay a maintenance allowance of ₹10,000 per month to a divorced...
A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan today concluded hearing arguments of the convicts in the batch of pleas challenging the premature release of 11 men who had gang-raped Bilkis Bano and brutally massacred her family members during the 2002 Gujarat carnage. Bilkis Bano has filed a petition Supreme Court against the remission...
Law Commission of India seeks suggestion from civil society on Uniform Civil Code till 15 July, 2023. By: M. Burhanuddin Qasmi The public notice from LCI The Law Commission of India (LCI) issued a fresh Public Notice dated 14 June, 2023 under subject line ‘Uniform Civil Code – Reg.’ and sought suggestions from common public,...
Pratab Bhanu Mehta The Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute has long been accompanied by a sense of foreboding. The dispute has been historically charged, politically divisive and communally violent, putting both the nation and the Constitution at risk. So putting the dispute into mediation under the aegis of the Supreme Court evokes a resigned weariness. For...
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday claimed that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is shielding the criminals. The former deputy chief minister made the statement after the Supreme Court reprimanded the CBI for transferring officials probing the Muzaffarpur Shelter home. “The way, in which Supreme Court is scolding Nitish Kumar and Bihar government, time and again,...