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Another area of tort that developed in India which differs from the UK is the notion of constitutional torts. Creating constitutional torts is a public law remedy for violations of rights, generally by agents of the state, and is implicitly premised on the strict liability principle. [63]
Supreme Court of India: Full case name: M.C.Mehta v. Kamal Nath and Ors. Decided: 13 December 1996: Citation (1997) 1 SCC 388: Court membership; Judges sitting: Kuldip Singh, S. Saghnr Ahma: Case opinions; The public trust doctrine, as discussed by the Court in this judgment was a part of the law of the land: Decision by: Kuldip Singh
Indian constitutional case law (9 P) Pages in category "Supreme Court of India cases" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total.
Puttaswamy v. Union of India; Court: Supreme Court of India: Full case name: Justice K. S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) and Anr. vs Union Of India And Ors. Decided: August 24, 2017 () Citation: Writ Petition (Civil) No 494 of 2012; (2017) 10 SCC 1; AIR 2017 SC 4161: Case history; Related actions: decriminalization of homosexuality; decriminalization of ...
By late April, India led the world in new and active cases. On 30 April 2021, it became the first country to report over 400,000 new cases in a 24-hour period. [ 15 ] [ 6 ] Experts stated that the virus may reach an endemic stage in India rather than completely disappear; [ 16 ] in late August 2021, Soumya Swaminathan said India may be in some ...
Indian tort law uniquely includes remedies for constitutional torts, which are actions by the government that infringe upon rights enshrined in the Constitution, as well as a system of absolute liability for businesses engaged in hazardous activity as outlined in the rule in M. C. Mehta v. Union of India.
Indian constitutional case law (9 P) H. High courts of India cases (28 P) I. Indian Fundamental Rights case law (6 P) Indian intellectual property law (2 C, 109 P)
Tort law in India is primarily governed by judicial precedent as in other common law jurisdictions, supplemented by statutes governing damages, civil procedure, and codifying common law torts. As in other common law jurisdictions, a tort is breach of a non-contractual duty which has caused damage to the plaintiff giving rise to a civil cause of ...