Last week at CLPR – a round-up of the analyses, research and reporting in the week 29th Oct-4th Nov.
CADIndia:
On the Blog: Analysing the Pre-Constitutional efforts in tackling Social Boycott
SCObserver:
The 3 Judge Bench of the Supreme Court continued hearing arguments in Shafin Jahan v. Ashokan, which is popularly known as the Hadiya Marriage case. The case is an appeal against the order of the High Court of Kerala which annulled the petitioner’s marriage on suspicion of ‘forced’ conversion and the petitioner’s suspected links with extremist organisations.
The Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court continued hearing arguments on day 6 and day 7 in Kalpana Mehta v. Union of India where the Bench is looking into the judicial relevance of parliamentary reports.
A five judge bench of the Supreme Court commenced hearing on a new case, NCT (Delhi) v. Union of India, which concerns the special status of Delhi. The case is an appeal filed by the Delhi State Government against the judgment of the High Court of New Delhi which held that Delhi was not a State and that the Lieutenant Governor was the administrative head.
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