-The Hindu Carrying posters and banners that read “Supreme Court kuch to sharam karo” (have some shame, SC), those present near the Gate number 7 of the metro station said the clean chit given to the CJI was a case of “Supreme Injustice”. New Delhi: A day after several women activists and Lawyers were detained for protesting outside the Supreme Court against the clean chit given to Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi in...
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CJI sexual harassment case: 55 detained outside SC for holding protest
-PTI They were opposing clean chit to CJI Fifty-five protesters, mostly women Lawyers and activists, were detained outside the Supreme Court here on Tuesday while they were agitating against the procedure adopted to deal with a sexual harassment case against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi. Justice Gogoi on Monday got a clean chit from the apex court’s In-House Inquiry Committee which “has found no substance” in the allegations of sexual harassment levelled...
More »Points of Law in the PepsiCo-potato case -Biswajit Dhar
-The Hindu Business Line India’s Protection of Plant Varieties Act spells out rights of farmers vis-a-vis breeders, which resulted in a pushback for PepsiCo The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act (PPVFRA), which introduced intellectual property protection in Indian agriculture, faced its biggest test in its implementation phase of nearly a decade and a half, when PepsiCo India initiated legal proceedings against four farmers in Gujarat for “illegally” growing...
More »PepsiCo withdraws cases against two big farmers -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu It had sued them for Rs. 20 lakh PepsiCo has applied to withdraw its cases against two brothers who are major potato farmers and traders in the Banaskantha district of Gujarat. This is the first concrete move taken by the company to back down from its cases against at least nine potato farmers who grew its protected variety used to make Lays chips. PepsiCo’s Lawyer filed the application in a Deesa court...
More »Hard Look: Hot Potato -Sohini Ghosh
-The Indian Express Amid the ongoing controversy that erupted with PepsiCo India’s Lawsuits against 11 farmers for growing its patented potato variety, The Indian Express meets the affected farmers to find the genesis of the problem . Among the 11 farmers of Gujarat who have been slapped Lawsuits by PepsiCo India for “illegally” growing its patented potato variety FL 2027, are Fulchand Kachchhawa and his brother Suresh of Malgadh village in...
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