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  2. Indian Kanoon - Wikipedia

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    Indian Kanoon is an Indian law search engine. [1] [2] It was launched on 4 January 2008. The search engine has been meshed with the highest courts and tribunals of India to provide up-to-date judgements.

  3. Judiciary of India - Wikipedia

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    The judiciary of India ( ISO: Bhārata kī Nyāyapālikā) is the system of courts that interpret and apply the law in the Republic of India. India uses a common law system, first introduced by the British East India Company and with influence from other colonial powers and Indian princely states, as well as practices from ancient and medieval ...

  4. Collegium system - Wikipedia

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    The Indian Judicial Collegium system, where existing judges appoint judges to the nation's constitutional courts, has its genesis in, and continued basis resting on, three of its own judgments made by Supreme Court judges, which are collectively known as the Three Judges Cases. The collegium system has often been alleged to have caste bias due ...

  5. Section 377 - Wikipedia

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    Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code was a section of the Indian Penal Code introduced in 1861 during the British rule of India. Modeled on the Buggery Act 1533, it made sexual activities "against the order of nature" illegal. On 6 September 2018, the Supreme Court of India ruled that the application of Section 377 to consensual homosexual sex ...

  6. Aruna Shanbaug case - Wikipedia

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    Nationality. Indian. Occupation. Nursing Officer. Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug (1 June 1948 – 18 May 2015), was an Indian nurse who was at the centre of attention in a court case on euthanasia after spending over 41 years in a vegetative state as a result of a sexual assault. [1] In 1973, while working as a junior nurse at King Edward Memorial ...

  7. Suhas Katti v. Tamil Nadu - Wikipedia

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    November 5, 2004. ( 2004-11-05) Suhas Katti v. Tamil Nadu was the first case in India where a conviction was handed down in connection with the posting of obscene messages on the internet under the controversial section 67 of the Information Technology Act, 2000. The case was filed in February 2004 and In a short span of about seven months from ...

  8. The Competition Act, 2002 - Wikipedia

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    The Competition Act, 2002 was enacted by the Parliament of India and governs Indian competition law. It replaced the archaic Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969. Under this legislation, the Competition Commission of India was established to prevent the activities that adversely affected competition in India.

  9. Qanun (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The qanun traces one of its origins to a stringed Assyrian instrument from the Old Assyrian Empire, specifically from the nineteenth century BC in Mesopotamia. [1] This instrument came inscribed on a box of elephant ivory found in the old Assyrian capital Nimrud (ancient name: Caleh ). [1] The instrument is a type of large zither with a thin ...