Category: Polity Current Affairs

Chargesheets : Not Public Documents The Supreme Court (SC) ruled that chargesheets are not ‘public documents’ and enabling their free public access violates the provisions of the Criminal Code of Procedure (CrPC) as it compromises the rights of the accused, victim, and the investigation agencies. According to the Court, a chargesheet cannot be made publicly […]

13th Amendment To The Constitution Of Sri Lanka: India’s External Affairs minister during a recent visit to Sri Lanka expressed India’s “considered view” with the Sri Lankan President that the full implementation of the 13th Amendment was “critical” for power devolution. 13th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka is an outcome of the India-Sri […]

Remote Voting For Migrants: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has proposed a new Remote Electronic Voting Machine (RVM), which will allow domestic migrants to vote in national and regional elections. The EC proposed using this in a State Assembly election as a pilot so internal migrants within a state can cast their ballots. Hearing […]

Notification Of Minority Communities: The Central Government submitted the views of 24 States to the Supreme Court on whether religious and linguistic minority communities should be identified and notified by the Union Government or the respective State Governments. Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Jains and Zorastrians (Parsis) have been notified as minority communities under Section 2 […]

Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme: The Union government has informed the Supreme Court that significant progress has been made in the computerization of land ownership records, as cadastral maps of 35% of over six lakh villages have so far been geotagged. As per the Management Information System of Digital India land Records Modernisation Programme […]

Reservation To The Native Women Of The State : Governor Of Uttarakhand The Governor of Uttarakhand gave the nod to a Bill that gives 30% reservation to the native women of the state. The Uttarakhand Public Services (Horizontal Reservation for Women) Bill,2022, provides women with 30 per cent horizontal reservation in public services and posts, […]

Section 6A Of The Citizenship Act, 1955: A Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud said it will first take up for preliminary determination whether Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955 suffers from any “constitutional infirmity”. Section 6A was a special provision inserted into the 1955 Act in furtherance of a […]

High-Power Ladakh Committee: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) constituted a high-powered committee chaired by Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai for the Union Territory of Ladakh. Committee was formed After the unique status of the formerly-existing State of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution was read down by Parliament on […]

e-SCR Project: Electronic Supreme Court Reports (e-SCR) project has been launched to provide the digital version of the SC’s judgements in the manner as they are reported in the official law report ‘Supreme Court Reports’ The report aims to provide the entire judgement of SC from inception in 1950 to date. The eCourts Mission Mode […]