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LEGISLATION FEBRUARY 2023| 17+ Stories on Budget 2023-24; Revision of Income-Tax Forms; Definition of Piracy; Reduction of management fees of Asset Reconstruction Companies & SEBI Circulars; and more

UNION CABINET Union Budget 2023-24 Highlights: What’s in bag for middle-class? On 1-02-2023, the Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman announced the Union

High Court Round Up Legal RoundUp

[High Court Monthly Round Up] | December 2022 | 100 + Legal Stories including U.P ULB elections; PIL against Koffee with Karan; Bail to journalist Siddique Kappan; Right to be forgotten; Sexual harassment at workplace; Trade mark infringement cases and more

A quick legal roundup to cover important stories from all High Courts in December 2022

Case Briefs High Courts

SC-ST Act is prospective or retrospective? Kar HC quashes criminal proceedings for offences committed in the year 1975

Karnataka High Court: Krishna S Dixit J. quashes the criminal proceedings as the SC-ST act is not retrospective in nature. The petitioners

Case Briefs Supreme Court (Constitution Benches)

Sub-classification of Scheduled Castes| 5-judge bench calls for revision of E.V. Chinnaiah decision; Matter referred to larger bench [DETAILED REPORT]

“The aspiration of equal treatment of the lowest strata, to whom the fruits of the reservation have not effectively reached, remains a

Legislation Updates Statutes/Bills/Ordinances

President promulgates — Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre) Ordinance, 2019

The Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre) Ordinance, 2019 No. 13 of 2019 Promulgated by the President in the Seventieth Year

Case Briefs High Courts

Central/State Govts to refrain from using the nomenclature ‘Dalit’ as interchangeable with SCs/STs

Madhya Pradesh High Court: In the instant writ petition, wherein it was prayed that the use of nomenclature ‘Dalit’ be prohibited in

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Central and State Governments directed to strictly enforce the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989

Supreme Court: In a petition highlighting the plight of the members of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, the Court noticed that there

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Not necessary for anyone to change one’s name after embracing a different faith

Supreme Court: In a case where the election of the appellant was challenged on ground that he, being a Muslim, is not