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26/03/2025

30/01/2025

The Supreme Court on Tuesday (January 28) questioned the implications of Delhi High Court's decision to grant an ex parte stay on order discharging a murder accused, observing that it effectively subjects the accused to trial without even setting aside the discharge order.
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30/01/2025

The Supreme Court on Wednesday (January 29) directed the Union Government to consider the enactment of a law to protect the rights of domestic workers.
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30/01/2025

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has told the Calcutta High Court that it has received sanction from the West Bengal government to probe the financial irregularities case against the former principal of RG Kar College and Hospital Sandip Ghosh.
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30/01/2025

The Supreme Court observed that the Family Court lacks jurisdiction to entertain a plea for paternity claim from the extra-marital affairs.
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30/01/2025

The Supreme Court today(January 29) reserved judgment in a writ petition challenging Section 5(4) of the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961(as amended in 2017) as per which a woman who adopts a child is entitled to maternity benefit only if the adopted child is aged less than three months.
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30/01/2025

Govt Pleaders & Prosecutors Must Be Appointed On Merit; Not On Political Considerations Or Nepotism : Supreme Court
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30/01/2025

The Supreme Court held that a careful balance must be struck between the child's right to know their biological parents and an individual's right to dignity and privacy.
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30/01/2025

The Supreme Court today (January 29) clarified its earlier order relating to doctors' protest against the RG Kar Rape-Murder incident and said that doctors who have returned to duty after August 22, 2024, should not be treated as absent and should be considered on duty.
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30/01/2025

'He may not have died due to assault, but he was definitely thrashed in custody,' the Court orally observed.
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