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Whether Whatsapp forward can be treated as document as per Evidence Act?

Whether Whatsapp forward can be treated as document as per Evidence Act? As noticed above, the petitioners are not privy to any infor- mation except an alleged WhatsApp circulated post. They have not stated that they have in any manner tried to even ascertain as to whether any of the allegations contained in the petition

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The Supreme Court on Monday 16th December 2019 observed that the RTI Act has come to be a weapon of intimidation, “blackmail” no less. “Can it be one’s profession to be a RTI activist? People who have no concern with a subject are filing RTIs to seek information!…The objective behind this law was to allow

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The Bombay High Court recently quashed a Family Court order directing a man to have a second child with estranged wife through In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF), observing the directive to be ‘shocking to the judicial conscience of the Court’. In June, this year, a family court in Nanded, Maharashtra had allowed a plea made by

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8th December is a glorious day in the history of Indian fight for the Independence against the mighty colonial British Crown. On 8th December 1930, three young revolutionary Binoy Krishna Basu , Badal Gupto, Dinesh Chandra Gupto disguised themselves as Europeans entered Writers’ Building in Calcutta and killed oppressive British Police Chief Simpson . After

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#Passport : Whether court can impound passport of an accused?

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