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Law enforcement documents obtained by Government investigators often contain information about persons interviewed as witnesses or initial suspects but whose link to the official inquiry may be the result of mere happenstance. There is special reason, therefore, to give protection to this intimate personal data, to which the public does not have a general right of access in the ordinary […]

Supreme Court of the United States U.S. Dept. of Justice v. Reporters Committee   To begin with, both the common law and the literal understandings of privacy encompass the individual’s control of information concerning his or her person. In an organized society, there are few facts that are not at one time or another divulged to another. Thus the extent […]

Except to the extent that a person has actual and timely notice of the terms thereof, a person may not in any manner be required to resort to, or be adversely affected by, a matter required to be published in the Federal Register and not so published. For the purpose of this paragraph, matter reasonably available to the class of persons affected thereby is deemed published in the Federal Register when incorporated by reference therein with the approval of the Director of the Federal Register.

Steve Gupta, an attorney, appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in favor of defendants in his action under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, et seq. (“FOIA”), seeking documents about Rahul Gandhi’s alleged detention at Logan Airport in September 2001. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291.

Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh today unveiled the Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) – 2020 in New Delhi. The first Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) was promulgated in the year 2002 and has since been revised periodically to provide impetus to the growing domestic industry and achieve enhanced self reliance in defence manufacturing.

Opening remarks by the Prime Minister at the India-Denmark Virtual Bilateral Summit   DATE: 28 SEP 2020 Namskar, Excellency! I am very happy to have the opportunity to talk to you through this Virtual Summit. First of all I would like to express my condolences for the loss that Denmark has suffered due to COVID-19. I want to congratulate for […]

The Jains in South Kanara district are about 9,000 in number and are rich landowners. In matters of faith and religious practices they conform to the Jains in other parts of India. They belong to the Digambara Sect. Their shrines situated in Karkal, Venur, Mudabidri and other places are worshipped by all classes of Jains in India and are visited by pilgrims in large numbers annually. In matters of social usages, they conform to those prevailing among the higher classes of Hindus governed by the Mitakshara Law of Inheritance.

A sum of money is annually set apart to be expended under these rules as grants-in-aid of recognized educational institutions under private management with the object of extending and improving secular education, and such grants will be given impartially and without reference to any religious instructions to all schools which impart sound, secular instruction, subject to the conditions hereinafter specified and with due consideration of the requirements of each locality, and of each institution and of the funds available

Section – 139, Income-tax Act, 1961-2020 PROCEDURE FOR ASSESSMENT Return of income. (1) Every person,— (a) being a company or a firm; or (b) being a person other than a company or a firm, if his total income or the total income of any other person in respect of which he is assessable under this Act during the previous year […]

Section – 2, Income-tax Act, 1961-2020 Definitions. 2- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (1) “advance tax” means the advance tax payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter XVII-C; (1A) “agricultural income”1 means— (a) any rent or revenue derived from land which is situated in India and is used for agricultural purposes; (b) any income derived from […]

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