The Allahabad High Court extended protection to a couple who obtained a mutual-consent divorce but later remarried for the sake of their two children, while observing that the institution of marriage should not be treated lightly over trivial disputes.
A Supreme Court PIL seeks the interim suspension of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and a declaration that Election Commission decisions cannot be taken unilaterally. The petition relies on 14 alleged objections recorded by Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, while seeking production and preservation of the ECI’s institutional records.
The Supreme Court has directed the Telangana State Bar Council to provisionally enrol as advocates candidates whose three-year LL.B. was completed in the regular mode but whose earlier degrees were obtained by open or distance learning, holding that continued denial of enrolment during the pending appeals would cause avoidable prejudice. The provisional enrolment creates no equity and abides by the final outcome on Rule 5 of the Rules of Legal Education, 2008.
