The School of Law at DY Patil Deemed to be University is proud to announce its role as the host of the 3rd Association of Indian Universities (AIU) National Moot Court Competition, which will take place from April 4th to 6th, 2024. This esteemed event, organised under the auspices of the AIU, underscores a commitment to advancing legal education and fostering academic excellence.
The Association of Indian Universities (AIU) serves as an Apex Advisory Body on Higher Education, with a mandate from the Ministry of Education spanning nearly a century. With a membership of 985 universities, including 16 overseas institutions, AIU plays a pivotal role in shaping the higher education landscape. Notable luminaries who have graced the organisation include Dr S. Radhakrishnan, Dr Zakir Hussain, and Dr Syama Prasad Mukherjee. The School of Law at DY Patil Deemed to be University, has been chosen from among these esteemed members to host this significant event.
This year’s competition will witness the participation of 50 universities from across India, each vying for top honours in the moot court arena. The event serves as a platform for students to showcase their legal acumen before eminent academicians, advocates, and judges, thereby setting the bar for excellence in legal education.
DY Patil Deemed to be University, School of Law, named after its visionary Founder Chancellor Padmashree Dr DY Patil, is led by the inspiring leadership of Dr Vijay D. Patil, Hon’ble Chancellor & President, and Dr Shivani Patil, Hon’ble Pro-Chancellor and Vice President. The institution is committed to providing holistic education to empower the youth in a rapidly evolving global economy. The School of Law, renowned for its academic rigour and industry-focused approach, nurtures future-ready legal professionals through comprehensive courses delivered by esteemed national and international faculties.
The theme of this year’s moot court competition revolves around Constitutional Law and the timely issue of Electoral Bonds, offering participants a platform to engage with contemporary legal challenges.
Prizes for the competition include:

In conclusion, the 3rd AIU National Moot Court Competition promises to be a hallmark event, bringing together universities from across India in a spirited display of legal acumen and intellectual prowess. DY Patil, Deemed to be University, School of Law, looks forward to welcoming participants, observers, and enthusiasts alike to witness the vibrant exchange of ideas and the pursuit of excellence in legal education.
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NEW DELHI: Construction of national highways (NH) touched around 12,300 km in 2023-24, almost 34 km per day. This is the second highest rate of NH construction in the country’s history. The highest so far has been 13,327 km in 2020-21 when construction touched 36.5 km per day.
TOI has also learnt that the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which builds and maintains wider highways, recorded the maximum ever construction of NHs at 6,644 km against the target of 6,544 km.“This is an increase of around 20% compared to 5,544 km NHs built by NHAI in FY 2022-23,” said an official.
Sources said that the capital expenditure by NHAI in 2023-24 also reached an all-time high of little over Rs 2 crore, around 20% more compared to FY 22-23. The current trend of expenditure for highway development is likely to continue for the next one decade before it reaches saturation.
Meanwhile, the transport ministry has proposed to the PMO for setting up of a dedicated Corridor Management Unit (CMU) in the NHAI to focus on operation and maintenance of highway stretches considering a two-fold increase in the length of widened NH in the past 10 years. As per projection, this will touch 89,900 km by 2037 and 1.27 lakh km by 2047. This will require having trained manpower to manage the highway stretches efficiently.

NEW DELHI: Patanjali Ayurved‘s co-founders Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna had to face a tough time in Supreme Court which found their unconditional apology not convincing and directed them to file fresh affidavits.
In compliance with its direction, both appeared in court to face contempt proceedings and the court directed them to come again on the next date of hearing on April 10 after rejecting their affidavits.
At the outset of hearing, a bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Ahsanuddin Amanullah said that the apology expressed by them in their affidavits was not unconditional and the regret was not sufficient after violating the undertaking given by the company for not publishing misleading claims of their products. The court also told them they cannot shield themselves by pinning blame on their officials.

“It is a violation of undertaking given to the highest court of the land and it cannot be taken lightly. Your apology is not persuading the court. It is a mere lip service. You have to ensure that your undertaking which is solemn should have been adhered to. You violated the solemn undertaking with impunity,” the bench said.
The court said that their affidavit was not convincing and they could not get away. “Sorry, we are not so magnanimous,” the bench said.
The Centre and Uttarakhand govt also came under severe criticism for “keeping its eyes shut” on the misdeeds of Patanjali and giving it a long rope despite the company violating the law and claiming to cure incurable diseases including Covid-19 in violation of law.
As lawyers of Ramdev and Balkrishna were facing the ire of the court, it was the solicitor general whose intervention came as a relief as he assured the court that as an officer of the court he would sit with them to draft a proper affidavit. He agreed that their conduct was not acceptable.
The court was hearing a petition filed by Indian Medical Association.
The apex court had in its earlier hearing in Nov recorded Patanjali’s lawyer Sajan Poovayya assurance that the company won’t publish such misleading advertisements.

NEW DELHI: Foreign minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday advised other countries to refrain from making political statements on India’s internal affairs or else will get a ‘very strong reply’ from India.
Responding to a question about the recent comments of US and German envoys on Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest the Enforcement Directorate, the foreign minister said that India had made it very clear that it objected to such statements.
“Somebody asked a person from the UN (about Kejriwal’s arrest), and he gave some reply. But in other cases, I would say very frankly these are old habits, these are bad habits,” Jaishankar said.
“There is a certain ‘maryada’ (restraint) among countries. We are sovereign countries, we should not be interfering in each other’s internal affairs, we should not be passing comments about each other’s politics,” he added.
The foreign minister further said that certain etiquettes, conventions and practices which must be followed in international relations and if any country comments in India’s politics, they will get a very strong reply from the government.
“We sincerely urge all the countries in the world that by all means you have your views about the world, but no country has the right to comment on another country’s politics especially in situations like this,” Jaishankar said.
During the interaction, Jaishankar also slammed China’s action of issuing a list of new names for places in Arunachal Pradesh and called it ‘senseless’. He also added that the northeastern state is and will always be a part of India.
“I want to be very clear that Arunachal Pradesh was, Arunachal Pradesh is, Arunachal Pradesh will always be India. I hope I am saying it so clearly that not only in the country but beyond the country also people get that message very very clearly,” he said.
Meanwhile, Jaishankar also came down heavily on Congress leader P Chidambram over the Katchatheevu island row. the EAM said that the fishermen of Tamil Nadu should know who put them in this situation.
In his tweets on X earlier, Chidambaram said any “untruthful and belligerent” statement about the island will bring the Sri Lankan government and 35 lakh Tamils into confrontation. Jaishankar did a “somersault” on the issue, and once a liberal foreign service officer, he became a mouthpiece of the RSS-BJP, the former Union minister said.
Jaishankar said he did not mind people disputing his statements that then prime ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi gave no importance to the island and the legal opinion regarding negotiating fishing rights with Sri Lanka was disregarded.
“But these are public documents. By saying that today Jaishankar is in BJP or not — Jaishankar is in BJP and is proud to be in BJP — does not change anything. Facts are facts, truth is truth. Fishermen of Tamil Nadu should know who has put them in that situation,” he said.
The issue is not what was the (then) government’s position… the issue is the public should know that the DMK was complicit in it,” he added.

SULTANPUR: Hearing in a 2018 defamation case against Rahul Gandhi over his alleged objectionable remarks targeting Home Minister Amit Shah was postponed to April 12. The hearing could not take place on Tuesday since the judge was on leave.
The defamation complaint against Gandhi was filed by BJP leader Vijay Mishra six years ago.
The plaintiff’s advocate, Santosh Pandey, said he gave an application to the court, seeking the issuance of a non-bailable warrant against Gandhi.But since the judge was on leave, the hearing could not take place, he said.
The Congress leader’s lawyer Kashi Prasad Shukla said he too gave an application in the court seeking another date for the hearing, citing the schedule of Gandhi, a candidate in Kerala’s Wayanad Lok Sabha seat where the last date of filing nomination is April 4.
Last December, the court issued a warrant against Rahul Gandhi. Subsequently, Gandhi halted his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Amethi on February 20, appeared in the court and was granted bail.
The complaint was filed here on August 4, 2018, against Rahul Gandhi for his alleged objectionable comments against Shah made at a press conference in Bengaluru in May of that year during the Karnataka elections.
The complainant referred to Gandhi’s comment that the BJP claims to believe in honest and clean politics but has a party president who is an “accused” in a murder case. Shah was BJP president when Gandhi made the comment.
About four years before Gandhi’s remark, a special CBI court in Mumbai discharged Shah in a 2005 fake encounter case when he was a minister of state for home in Gujarat.

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RANCHI: JMM leadership on Thursday avoided a flashpoint with its INDIA bloc ally, Congress, over the Lohardaga (ST) seat candidate by announcing support for Congress candidate Sukhdeo Bhagat. However, JMM insiders said the party leadership was miffed by the announcement made by Congress of its candidates across three seats (Gumla, Sisai, and Bishunpur) late on Wednesday evening with many viewing it as an arm-twisting tactic.
JMM general secretary Supriyo Bhattacharya said, “We had told our allies that our stakes in the seat were higher given the current ground reality. But it does not matter now. We will fulfil our role, our vow, and support for the INDIA bloc candidate.”

INDORE: Madhya Pradesh high court has observed that a wife can be debarred from maintenance on the basis of adultery only if she is “living in adultery at or around the time of filing application”.
Justice Prakash Chandra Gupta of HC‘s Indore bench made the observation while dismissing a revision petition filed by a man against a family court order that awarded Rs 10,000 maintenance to his wife.
The court order mentions that the couple married in March 2015 and a Coimbatore court granted them ex parte divorce in Dec 2016.

In his order dated March 12, Justice Gupta said, “According to Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), the term ‘wife’ includes a woman, who has been divorced by her husband and has not remarried. From analysis of the provision and case laws, it is apparent that adultery under Section 125(4) of CrPC has to be continuous and the liability to prove it is upon the husband in order to debar the wife from getting maintenance.”
“The wife can be debarred from getting maintenance on grounds of adultery only when she is actually living in adultery at or around the time of application,” he said.
The husband had filed a revision petition, alleging that the wife was indulging in adultery by “speaking with another man over the phone at night”. The husband had claimed that she was living with a man in Bhopal and produced some photographs, but without certification under Indian Evidence Act 1872.
The MP high court concluded that the husband was unable to prove adultery by the wife, and upheld the family court order.