What is Article 131? Article 131 deals with the ‘original jurisdiction’ of the Supreme Court of India in any dispute that involves a ‘question of law or fact on which the existence of legal right depends’. Original jurisdiction refers to …
What is Article 131? Article 131 deals with the ‘original jurisdiction’ of the Supreme Court of India in any dispute that involves a ‘question of law or fact on which the existence of legal right depends’. Original jurisdiction refers to …
What’s in the news? The Supreme Court has held that viewing in private, downloading, storing, possessing, distributing or displaying pornographic acts involving children attract criminal liability under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) and the Information Technology …
Context: An unmarried woman has approached the Supreme Court seeking the right to have a child through surrogacy as a single woman. This case has brought the interest on the problems faced by single women in India and solutions which …
Context: The Supreme Court in January 2024 questioned the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir about the non-publication of orders for the suspension of Internet services in the UT. The importance of the publication of Internet suspension orders cannot be …
What is Article 131? Article 131 deals with the ‘original jurisdiction’ of the Supreme Court of India in any dispute that involves a ‘question of law or fact on which the existence of legal right depends’. Original jurisdiction refers to …
Context: Supreme Court’s quashing the Gujarat government’s order prematurely releasing 11 persons sentenced to life imprisonment for gangrapeing a five-month pregnant Bilkis Bano, and killing 14 members of her family, including her three-year-old daughter, in the 2002 Gujarat riots has …
Background What was the Constitution position? Article 370 of the Constitution, which provided autonomy for Jammu and Kashmir, was drafted in 1947 by Sheikh Abdullah, then the state’s Prime Minister, and accepted by India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Classified …
Context Drawing the curtains on an eight-year-long legal battle between the Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi government and the Centre, the Supreme Court has ruled that the Delhi government has legislative and executive powers over administrative services in the national capital. …
What’s in the news? Recently, the Supreme Court ruled that it can exercise its plenary power to do “complete justice” under Article 142(1) of the Constitution to dissolve a marriage on the ground that it had broken down irretrievably, without …