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A plea in Supreme Court to amplify Penalties under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960

Before the Supreme Court a PIL has been filed to amend the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 (PCA) in order to include strict punishment for the perpetrators of animal cruelty. The petitioner, Advocate Sankalp Golatkar, has contended that the root cause of exponential rise in animal cruelty is the minimal punishment imposed on

Plea filed in SC for removal of words ‘Socialist’ and Secular’ from Constitution’s Preamble.

Both the words ‘Secular’ and ‘Socialist’ were added in preamble through section 2(a) of 42nd amendment in 1976. Now a PIL has been filed with the intention of removal of these words from preamble of India’s Constitution. Grounds for filing PIL are that is against India’s cultural and historical theme i.e. the oldest civilization of

SC to hear the matter today the plea seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against Yogi Adityanath

A bench consisting of Chief Justice SA Bobde, Justices AS Bopana & V.Ramasubramanium shall take the plea with an application filled by another petitioner, Anoop Awasthi who has asked in application for the reconstitution of enquiry commission set up by the court to probe into the encounter of the killing of Uttar Pradesh gangster Vikas

DIRECTIONS ISSUED BY MADRAS HC TO FORM A PANEL FOR INDIA QUOTA TO CENTRAL GOVERNMENT: OBC MEDICAL SEATS

This judgement has been delivered by two-member first bench comprising Cheif Justice AP Sahi and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamurthy on the plea submitted by all the political parties including AIADMK and opposing party DMK. The court has issued the order stating that committee must be form in next three months and that it must be constituted