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Name of the Case
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Held
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| Gaurav Kumar v. State of Bihar, 2024 SCC Online Pat 2308 |
Patna High Court has set aside
the Bihar Reservation (for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Back
Classes) (Amendment) Act, 2023, and the Bihar (in admission in educational
institutions) Reservation (Amendment) Act, 2023 as ultra vires and being
violative of equality principles of the Constitution.
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Muhammad Rasheed v. State of
Kerala, 2024 SCC Online Ker 4682
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Kerala High Court held that to
attract an offence under Section 111 (1) of the BNS it is imperative that a
group of two or more persons indulge in any continuing unlawful activity
prohibited by law, which is a cognizable offence punishable with imprisonment
of three years or more, undertaken by any person, either singly or jointly,
as a member of an organised crime syndicate or on behalf of such syndicate in
respect of which more than one charge-sheets have been filed before a
competent Court within the preceding period of ten years and that Court has
taken cognizance of such offence
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Shri S. Rabban Alam v. CBI,
Though Its Director, Criminal Appeal No. 578/2024
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Delhi High Court held that the
wording of Section 531(2)(a) of the BNSS is amenable to a possible
interpretation that if an appeal is pending before the coming into force of
the BNSS, only then would such appeal be continued under the Cr.P.C.
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Mandeep Singh v. Kulwinder
Singh, CRR No. 2914 of 2023
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Section 531 of the BNSS makes
it crystal clear that all the appeals, applications, trials, inquiries, or
investigations pending on or before 30th June 2024, would continue to be
governed under the CrPC.
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Junglee Games India Private
Limited v. State of Tamil Nadu, 2021 SCC Online Mad 2762
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Madras High Court struck down
the Tamil Nadu Gaming and Police Laws (Amendment) Act, 2021 which imposes a
ban on playing of games such as rummy and poker on cyberspace with stakes.
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M. Karpagam v. Commissionerate
for the Welfare of Differently Abled, WP No. 11850 of 2021
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Madras High Court Division
Bench has held that when a larger interest of public health comes into play,
it is possible that a person who has not taken the vaccine may not reveal the
symptoms but still be a silent carrier, it is doubtful whether in such
circumstances the right to refuse vaccine can be exercise and asked the State
to spread awareness.
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Netai Ghosh v. State of West
Bengal, 2021 SCC Online Cal 1938
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Calcutta High Court held that
voluntary presents given at or before or after the marriage to the bride or
the bridegroom, as the case may be, of a traditional nature, which are given
not as a consideration for marriage but out of love, affection on regard,
would not fall within the mischief of the expression ‘dowry’ made punishable
under Sec 2 of the Dowry Prohibition Act.
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X v. Y, 2021 SCC Online Ker
2054
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Kerala High Court Division
Bench has overruled 49 year old judgement of KC Moyin v. Nafeesa effectively
barred Muslim women from resorting to extra judicial modes of dissolving
marriage, stating that Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act did not
contemplate the undoing of the modes of extra-judicial divorce available to
women under personal law.
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