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 Brief of Petition challenging Sedition and its dismissal  Quick Brief of the plea filed on the #Constitutional Validity of the #Sedition Law in #Supreme Court of India.  1. A plea has been filed before the Supreme Court urging it to declare the law against Sedition under section 124-A of the Indian Penal Code as #Ultra Vires the Indian Constitution.  2. #Section124A IPC states that: Sedition-Whoever, by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or otherwise, brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards, the Government established by law in India, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, to which fine may be added, or with imprisonment which may extend to three years, to which fine may be added, or with fine. Explanation 1.—The expression “disaffection” includes disloyalty and all feelings of enmity. Explanation 2.—Comments expressing disapprobation of the measures of...

 Brief of SC order making Right to Speedy Trial as ground for Bail under UAPA Quick Brief of #SupremeCourt's judgment that violation of #FundamentalRight to #SpeedyTrial is a ground for constitutional court to grant bail in #UAPA cases. The Bench which gave the judgment comprised Justices N. V. Ramana, Suryakant and Aniruddha Bose.  1. According to the facts of the case, a seven-member gang chopped off the right palm of a college professor, T J Joseph, while he was returning home from a Sunday mass at 8 am on July 4, 2010 as a response to a purported act of #Blasphemy. He had allegedly insulted #ProphetMohammed in a question paper prepared by him for an internal examination conducted by the Malayalam department of the Newman College at Thodupuzha.  2. An #FIR was lodged against the attackers by the victim's wife under Sections 143, 147, 148, 120-B, 341, 427, 323, 324, 326, 506(H), 307, 149 of IPC, and Section 3 of Explosive Substances Act. Over the course of the investiga...

 Brief of order on use of National, Central, State by NGOs  Quick Brief of the order passed by the #KeralaHighCourt directing #NGO to avoid ‘Central’, ‘State’ or ‘National’ in their names as far as possible in the case of State Environment Protection Council Vs State of Kerala (2015)  1. The court in an order disposing of a writ petition filed by State Environment Protection Council, an NGO based in Chelad, Kannur District which had challenged construction of a building in violation of Rules.  2. The bench observed that the name of the petitioner is described as the State Environment Protection Council. Therefore, it impleaded the Inspector General of Registration to consider whether, such NGOs or association or societies, be permitted to register, with the specific words - #Central, #State or #National.  3. The bench observed that NGOs or associations or societies, should not give any impression, to the public at large that, it is a #Statutory body, under any e...

 Brief of PIL against UBER for Grievance Redressal Mechanism  Quick Brief on the #Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed before the Hon’ble Bombay High Court addressing the lack of consumer grievance redressal mechanism to resolve complaints raised by the customers against #Uber India in respect to Article 14, 19, 226, 227 of the #Constitution Of India, Motor Vehicles Act, and Motor Vehicle Aggregators Guidelines, 2020. The two-Judge Bench was headed by Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni.  1. Plea against Uber India filed in the Hon’ble #Bombay High Court accusing lack of grievance redressal mechanism. Many Customers face difficulty in raising issues related to booking of cab service.  2. The Petitioner faced hurdles while booking a cab from the alleged company Uber, subsequently facing poor ride experience and payment of money. Uber’s mobile application does not allow to complaint the problems in a satisfactory manner.  3. The Court wanted to hear t...