The marital relationship between a husband and wife and is a mutual bond of trust and understanding. Though marriage isn’t gleeful and jubilant in all the cases, in some cases marriage becomes a stumbling block[…]

Mohd. Ahmed Khan vs Shah Bano Begum And Ors 1985 SCR (3) 844 It was a controversial maintenance lawsuit. In this case, Supreme Court granted the maintenance to a divorced muslim woman irrespective of what[…]

Let’s first understand the phrase “domestic violence.” Let’s consider them as two separate words. “Domestic” means “within the realm or the household territory” and “violence” means “using physical force to hurt and to cause damage”.[…]

Indian Judiciary has the largest backlog of pending cases in the world. According to National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG), around 3.7 million cases are pending before the High Courts, District and Taluka Courts across India[…]

INTRODUCTION  The Supreme Court of India has in its recent landmark judgment in Satender Kumar Antil[1] laid down guidelines on the grant of bail to an accused and while doing so, it has reiterated aspects[…]

Introduction of definitions The terms ‘bail’, ‘bond’ and ‘bail bond’ while used throughout the CrPC, have not been defined therein. The BNSS introduces definitions for these terms for the first time in Cl.479. Bail is[…]

Introduction The world today is governed by the centers of economic power. In the modern format of heavy reliance on private companies in an economy, the key questions of the criminal liability of these companies[…]

The Supreme Court has referred to a larger bench the question as to whether a person accused of committing offences under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act 1985 is entitled to default bail on[…]

Introduction On the court’s recommendation in the case of Ram Babu Mishra v. State of Uttar Pradesh, where the court thoroughly examined the necessity for enacting legislation along the lines of Section 5 of the[…]