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Key Takeaway: Indian courts may admit Google Maps evidence subject to the same principles governing other maps and charts under the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 1980, but must scrutinize accuracy, relevance, and potential privacy implications before relying on it for decisional purposes. 1. Statutory Framework for Admissibility of Maps and Charts…
If someone makes a list of ‘most talked legal personalities of the country’ then I doubt that such a list would ever include the serving Chief Justices of any of the 24 High Courts (let alone small High Courts like Uttarakhand, Jharkhand or Chhattisgarh) but we right now have a beautiful exception to this general…
OBC Reservation and the CAPF Creamy Layer: A Constitutional and Policy Perspective 1 Author: Advocate Amit Kumar Sharma, Supreme Court of India Introduction The question of whether children of officers of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) fall within the “creamy layer” of the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category is not merely a matter of…
Judicial and Policy Milestones Key developments in this area have been shaped by a combination of judicial pronouncements and policy circulars, including: Policy Circular No. 185/2015 (Dated 27.11.2015) – Established the principle of reimbursement of increased royalty charges due to legislative changes under Item Rate Contracts. Policy Circular No. 2.5.11/2019 (Dated 17.05.2019) – Extended the…
MS. Parina Muchhala Abstract The Lok Sabha recently passed the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, which banned commercial surrogacy due to prevalent thing of the practice and the accruing health threats to surrogate mothers. Nevertheless, this ban has generated an uproar within Indian feminist groups and stakeholders as being an inherently discriminatory legislation violative of their fundamental…
MS. Stuti Bhargava & Ms. Pallavi Diwakar Abstract The authors in this paper have attempted to give an overview of the laws that govern homosexuals and transgenders. The primary focus of the article has been on the judgment of the Madras High Court (Arun Kumar and Anr. v. The Inspector General of Registration) where the…
