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July 16, 2021

Rules of Pleading

Rules of pleading – order VI, VII, VIII of CPC. Order VI of CPC describe provisions regarding pleading: – Rule 1 of order VI, lays down that pleading means a ‘Plaint’ or a ‘written statement’. Rule 2 of order VI- ‘Pleading to state material facts and not evidence’ Every pleading shall contain, and contain only…

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Polygamous Marriage in India

Polygamy means a system of marriage whereby a person has more than one spouse. Thus polygamy became illegal in India in 1956, uniformly for all of its citizens except for Muslims, who are permitted to have four wives and for Hindus in Goa and along the western coast where bigamy is legal. A polygamous Hindu marriage is null and void. While the punishment specified in Sections 494 and 495…

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Israel-Palestine conflict

Due to India’s lack of diplomatic ties with Israel over the last five decades, Indians have a limited understanding of Israeli ideology and concerns about their neighbours. Furthermore, India has had little or no historical interaction with Jews in Israel and throughout the globe. There was also a lack of public awareness of the underlying…

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SINGAPORE GAYATHRI CASE

A lady of Indian origin, who had been exposed to indiscriminate abuse by a housemaid, was called to testify in a Singapore court, where she was accompanied by video footage from a surveillance camera. Among the allegations are that she not only pushed her, beat her, starved her, but also tied her up like a…

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In RE: Bruno

“We feel that this would be a fitting tribute to the hapless dog that succumbed to acts of human cruelty, and disturbed by which incident we had initiated these proceedings,” said the Kerala High Court on 2nd July 2020 in an attempt to provide justice and some closure to the good boy Bruno, now in…

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ANIMAL LIABILITY IN INDIA; PART-2

CASE LAWS-: To understand the liability for keeping dangerous animals, there are some important case laws which are discussed below: A).   STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND ORS. VS. SMT. HALLI DEVI1- In this case the plaintiff one smt. Halli devi a resident of a small village in Himachal Pradesh, was going to her cattle shed…

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Right to public services legislation

The introduction of Right to Services Act in India has given a weapon given to the citizens of India. In consideration for growing incidents, complaints and to introduce a statutory mechanism that might control corruption and delayed services with lack of transparency, the correct to Public Services Legislation was enacted. What is Right to Public…

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